Payload
MIDAS 2
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MIDAS 2 is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 24, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 24, 1960 at 05:36 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Midas 2
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 168 km
- Periapsis
- 165 km
- Inclination
- 33.05°
- Orbital period
- 87.82 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,618.43 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-006A
- NORAD catalog №
- 43
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- February 7, 1974
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- February 7, 1974
- Time in service
- 13.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed