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U.S. Missile Defense Test Aborted

An AP newswire article, via USA Today, reports that:

A test of the nation's long-range missile defense system was aborted Friday when a target rocket failed to fly high enough to trigger the interceptor missile, officials said.

The dummy warhead, launched from Alaska, fell into the Pacific Ocean. The interceptor missile was at least eight minutes from launch in California and never fired, the Air Force said.

The interceptor was supposed to try to collide with the old intercontinental ballistic missile high over the Pacific.

The cause of the target failure, the first in the test program, was unknown.

posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2007 01:33:00 PM