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Outer Space Environment Causes MDA Flight Test Failure, Board Finds

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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said an independent Failure Review Board has found it was a guidance fault caused by the outer space environment that caused the failure of Flight Test Ground-based-06a (FTG-06a) in December. “The EKV's guidance system had a fault related to outer space-related dynamic environments which caused the EKV to fail in the final seconds of the test,” MDA said in a statement. “There is no indication of any quality control problem as the cause of the…

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