U.S. Test Launches Target Missile

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency yesterday conducted the first of several test launches planned for 2006, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Feb. 13).

The missile, fired from Alaska’s Kodiak Island, traveled about 2,500 miles over the Pacific Ocean, said agency spokesman Rich Lehner. No missile interceptor was fired.

The launch was intended to test improvements made to an early warning radar at Beale Air Force Base in northern California, Lehner said.

“Everything went very well,” he said. “There were 26 test objectives and every one of them was met.”

The test launch had been aborted Tuesday due to a “power anomaly” at Kodiak, according to Lehner (Associated Press/USA Today, Feb. 24).

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