AeroVironment also established world altitude records with its solar-electric, unmanned aircraft systems at the U.S. Navy PacificMissileRange Facility at Barking Sands on Kauai.
The U.S. said on Wednesday it would move an advanced missile-defense system to Guam to defend U.S. bases in the Pacific against medium-range missiles from North Korea.
While many threats have been dismissed as bluster, U.S. and South Korean say they believe the North in the coming days may test a mid-range missile designed to reach as far as Guam, the U.S. territory in the Pacific where the Pentagon is deploying a land-based missile-defense system.