US Missile Defense Test Fails
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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WASHINGTON The first full flight test of the national missile defense system in nearly two years failed early today. An interceptor rocket didn&#39;t even get off the ground.
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An interceptor missile failed to launch early Wednesday in what was to have been the first full flight test of the US national missile defense system in nearly two years.
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President Bush&#39;s drive to deploy a multibillion-dollar shield against ballistic missiles was set back on Wednesday by what critics called a stunning failure of its first full flight test in two years.
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US missile defence gets serious Analysis The US intends a further test of its ballistic-missile defence system, as haggling over budgets and where ground stations will be based continues.â¦
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A missile test costing more than $100 million has gone severely wrong in the United States long-running project for a so-called &quot;son of Star Wars&quot; missile defence system.
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The first test of the United States anti-missile shield in nearly two years, has failed. Our correspondent, John Shovelan, reports the Missile Defence Agency says the ground-based interceptor has shut down, due to an unknown anomaly.
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An Israeli attempt to launch the Ofeq 6 spy satellite failed Monday, after a malfunction in the third phase of the Shavit satellite launcher.
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in
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THE first test in nearly two years of a multi-billion-dollar United States anti-missile shield failed yesterday when an interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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The first test in nearly two years  of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed on  Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared  to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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A test of interceptor missiles as part of the planned US defence shield fails for the second time in two months.
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The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar US anti-missile shield has failed after the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
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Central European Social Democrat parties rejected on Thursday a U.S. plan to build part of its missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying it threatened to bring about a new arms race.
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The United States failed in a planned missile defense flight test on Wednesday as the interceptor missile shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific, local media reported.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new heavy-duty Boeing rocket designed to haul super-sized military satellites into space failed during a test flight to put a dummy satellite into its intended orbit, officials said Wednesday.
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ANCHORAGE (ALASKA): A limited US national missile-defence system is not expected to be activated until at least early 2005, missing president George W Bush&#39;s year-end goal, a military spokesman has said.