Coolant leak caused NMD test failure
A leak of nitrogen gas used to cool two infrared sensors on the US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's experimental National Missile Defence (NMD) interceptor's exoatmospheric kill vehicle (EKV) was the cause of the failure of a $100 million test firing on 18 January.
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