[Launch Alert] Missile Defense Test Conducted

[Brian Webb]

                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                         kd6nrp at earthlink.net
                     http://www.spacearchive.info
		       
                                2010 January 31 (Sunday) 19:42 PST
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                   MISSILE DEFENSE TEST CONDUCTED

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --  The Missile Defense Agency
conducted a flight test today of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
System.

A target missile was successfully launched at approximately 3:40 p.m.
PST from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the
Republic of the Marshall Islands. Approximately six minutes later, a
Ground-Based Interceptor was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif. Both the target missile and Ground-Based
Interceptor performed nominally after launch. However, the Sea-Based
X-band radar did not perform as expected.

Program officials will conduct an extensive investigation to determine
the cause of the failure to intercept.

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