Missile-defense test ends in failure
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WASHINGTON - An important test of the United States&#39; emerging missile-defense system ended in an $85 million failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch as scheduled from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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Sub-based Bulava palaver A test launch of a next-generation, submarine-launched Russian ICBM ended in failure yesterday when the missile crashed into the White Sea shortly after launch, news agency Novosti reports.â¦
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Target missile doesn't make target The latest test of the Pentagon's controversial space ICBM interceptors has been aborted after the target failed to work.â¦
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Boeing Co.&#39;s Decatur-built Delta IV heavy-lift rocket failed to put a dummy satellite payload in the orbit it was supposed to.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States&#39; fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.
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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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Russia successfully tests a new sea-based ballistic missile, military officials say, after earlier tests failed.
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An attempt by Israel to launch a sophisticated spy satellite into space failed Monday afternoon, the Defense Ministry announced. According to a statement, the rocket, known as a Shavit I, failed in its third stage.
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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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India&#039;s first test-firing of a new nuclear-capable missile was unsuccessful, the defense minister said Monday.
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An attempt to launch an interceptor missile as part of the US missile defence shield failed early Wednesday in the first test of the system in nearly two years.
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The Bush administration&#39;s ambitious national missile defense program suffered a major setback on Wednesday when a malfunction forced a shutdown of the first test
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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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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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A target missile successfully blasted off from the Kodiak Launch Complex at 8:45 pm Tuesday, but the interceptor it was meant to test failed to launch from the Kwajalein Atoll in the central
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While a Defense Department spokesman Wednesday called the botched $85 million test of the national missile defense system an &quot;anomaly,&quot; a former Pentagon weapons tester told
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Latest setback for the Bush administration's effort to build a system for defending the country against ballistic missile attack fuels doubts about the system.