[Launch Alert] Vandenberg Launch Cancelled

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT

			            Brian Webb
		         Ventura County, California
		            kd6nrp at earthlink.net
	                  www.spacearchive.info

				                2007 May 25 (Friday) 16:34 PDT
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                     VANDENBERG LAUNCH CANCELLED
                            by Brian Webb

Technical problems forced officials to cancel this morning's scheduled
lift-off an anti-missile interceptor from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The launch was part of an $85 million test of the U.S. missile defense
system that called for launch of a target missile carrying a mock
warhead from Kodiak, Alaska followed by lift-off of the interceptor
from Vandenberg. The interceptor was to home-in on the approaching
warhead and destroy it in a high-speed collision above the eastern
Pacific.

However, the target missile malfunctioned after launch and the test
was aborted. A Missile Defense Agency team is investigating the target
missile anomaly and the test will be rescheduled for a later date.

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