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MDA Successfully Evaluates Alternate Divert Thrusters In GMD Test

Pat Host

Friday, January 29th, 2016

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MDA Successfully Evaluates Alternate Divert Thrusters In GMD Test

A Ground-based Midcourse Defense interceptor launch. Photo: Missile Defense Agency.

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Thursday successfully evaluated performance of alternate divert thrusters for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV), according to an agency statement.The mission was part of a non-intercept flight test called CTV-02 in which a long-range ground-based interceptor was launched from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. During the test, a target representing an intermediate-range ballistic missile was air-launched from a C-17 aircraft over the broad ocean area west of Hawaii. An Army Navy/Transportable Radar…

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