Russia today conducted a successful test launch of an SS-19 intercontinental ballistic missile from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian space military officials said (see GSN, Oct. 17; Agence France-Presse/Times of India, Dec. 10).  The ICBM’s prelaunch operations, launch and flight path went according to plan, and the missile’s six mock warheads hit targets on the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula, said Russian Space Forces spokesman Mikhail Deryagin (Associated Press, Dec. 10).

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