Problematic Interceptor Missile To Resume In-flight Testing

摘要

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) hopes to resume flight testing late this year of the nation's primary missile shield after a two-year hiatus following consecutive failures in early and late 2010. The upcoming flight test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system is unusual in that it will not involve an attempt to intercept a target missile. Rather, it is intended to validate fixes to a key interceptor component cited in the most recent test failure, in December 2010.