missile defense abortion
ow that the system is live, despite concerns over the approach, that we’re still making progress toward a missile defense for north america…
U.S. missile defense test fails [reuters, december 15, 2004]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.
About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile carrying a mock warhead had been successfully fired from Kodiak Island, Alaska, according to a statement from the Missile Defense Agency.
The aborted $85 million test appeared likely to set back plans for activation of a rudimentary bulwark against long-range ballistic missiles that could be fired by countries like North Korea.
no word on the operating system used for the interceptor missile. shutdown, restart or log off?