CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The Defense Department is trying to figure out what went wrong last night in its latest test of missile- defense technology. A prototype missile interceptor roared into space over the Pacific to demolish a mock warhead, but Defense officials say it missed. Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre joins us with those details. Jamie, what happened?</s>JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, the Pentagon had high hopes for this test. They were hoping it would be their second hit, their second test and second hit, but, as you said, it was a miss. The test started last night as scheduled, about 20 minutes after 9:00 Eastern Time, when a target missile with a mock warhead was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard a modified Minutemen intercontinental ballistic missile. Then, about 20 minutes later, 4,000 miles away, at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the interceptor missile was fired in an attempt to knock that warhead out of the sky. But a Pentagon statement released late last night after the test said, simply, "an intercept was not achieved." They don't know why it didn't hit this second time after having a success back in October. The Pentagon says that it will have government and industry program officials conduct an intensive review to try to figure out why it didn't work this time. This was a more complex test that involved integrating more information from land radars and space satellites. The -- there is another test scheduled in the spring before President Clinton is supposed to decide whether or not to move ahead with this program that right now costs nearly $13 billion. Jamie McIntyre, CNN, live at the Pentagon.</s>LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right, thank you, Jamie.
Interceptor Fails Second Attempt to Knock Out Ballistic Missile