Courtesy of Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A test of key parts of an emerging U.S. anti-missile shield was scrubbed on Thursday because of bad weather in Kodiak, Alaska, where a target missile was to have been launched, the Defense Department said.

The $85 million test—designed chiefly to collect data, rather than shoot down the target—may be rescheduled for Friday or Saturday, said Cheryl Irwin, a Pentagon spokeswoman.

“Bad weather and lightning at Kodiak” forced the postponement, she said in an e-mail.

The exercise would be the first involving a live target since ground-based interceptor rockets failed to leave their silos during tests in December 2004 and February 2005.

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