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1962 · United States Air Force

Midas 5

successAtlas Agena B | Midas 5

Military Defense Alarm System satellite designed to detect ICBMs using 175 infrared detectors. This launch also carried a batch of West Ford needles.

Overview

Date / time: April 9, 1962 at 03:04 PM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 3E
Mission: Midas 5
Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved: Polar Orbit

Atlas LV-3 Agena B →

Launch provider

United States Air Force →

Payloads deployed · 1

MIDAS 5 (STRONGBACK)