27 YEARS LATER, STAR WARS STILL DOESN'T WORK

Reuters provides the basic information:

UPDATE 1-US missile test mimicking Iran strike fails
Pentagon report shows growing Iran missile capability
By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co (RTN.N), the Defense Department said.

The Missile Defense Agency said that in Sunday's test both the target missile, fired from Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, and the interceptor, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, had performed normally.

"However, the Sea-Based X-band radar did not perform as expected," the agency said on its web site. Officials will investigate the cause of the failure to intercept, it said.

The Missile Defense Agency is the modern form of Reagan's "Star Wars" SDI program.

The link to the Reuters site doesn't include this part from Yahoo News version of the Reuters story:

David Altwegg, the Missile Defense Agency's executive director, said the layered, multibillion-dollar missile defense continued to be dogged by insufficient attention to detail by the Pentagon's top contractors. But he said it was too early to assess blame for the miss.

"We have problems with all our primes," Altwegg told a Pentagon budget briefing. He said it would probably take months to pin down exactly what went wrong. "Across the enterprise ... quality is a disappointment," he said.

THIS Reuters version does have the above text.