[Launch Alert] Friday Launch

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MISSILE DEFENSE TEST SCHEDULED

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Missile Defense Agency is scheduled to conduct a test of the ground-based interceptor system between 1 and 5 p.m. here Friday.

During the evaluation, an interceptor launched from the Ronald W. Reagan Missile Defense Site here will be tested against a target missile, launched from Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
 
The main objective of Friday’s test will be to exercise the operational configuration of the interceptor missile.