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