Test Launch of Intercontinental Missile Lights Up Evening Sky
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A Peacekeeper missile was successfully test-launched Monday night on a journey that lit up the sky for hundreds of miles.
The missile, carrying eight dummy warheads, was launched at 7:39 p.m. by the Air Force Space Command, said Staff Sgt. John B. Dendy, an Air Force spokesman.
The payload was delivered about 30 minutes later to the Kwajalein Missile Range in the South Pacific after a 4,200-mile trip.
“It went without a hitch,” Dendy said of the launch. “The stages separated beautifully on the video that we saw here. The range out in the Marshall Islands reports that the eight test re-entry vehicles blazed in perfectly.”
It was the 13th test launch of a Peacekeeper missile.
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