The launch was also a finger in the eye for America, which has seen its latest long-range anti-ballistic-missile test in the Pacific suffer an embarrassing radar malfunction.

美国对这次发射了如指掌，刚刚在太平洋进行的远程反导试验出现了令人尴尬的雷达故障。

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AeroVironment also established world altitude records with its solar-electric, unmanned aircraft systems at the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands on Kauai.

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At the same time, the government had relegated him to operating from an isolated U.S. missile-test range in the Pacific.

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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.

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