Kill vehicle, booster fail to separate in GMD test
The Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system's eighth intercept attempt ended without a shootdown Dec. 11 after the exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) failed to separate from its booster rocket, according to the Missile Defense Agency. MDA said it could take at least several days to review test...
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