Missile Test Over Pacific Is Successful

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San Diego Union-Tribune
August 14, 2008

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE – An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested early yesterday, the Air Force said.
The ICBM was launched at 1:01 a.m. and its three unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled about 4,220 miles over the Pacific Ocean to targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, an Air Force statement said.
The missile was launched under the direction of the 576th Flight Test Squadron, whose members installed tracking and command destruct systems on it to collect data and meet safety requirements.
-- Associated Press
 
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