A helium leak on Raytheon's exoatmospheric kill vehicle

A helium leak on Raytheon's exoatmospheric kill vehicle forced the Pentagon to push back by about two weeks its next planned ground-based midcourse ballistic missile intercept test. The leak, first reported in Aviation Week & Space Technology's affiliate Aerospace Daily, has been fixed. The test is...

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