Payload
MIDAS 5 (STRONGBACK)
activePayloadMEONORAD 271
MIDAS 5 (STRONGBACK) is a United States payload satellite, launched on April 9, 1962 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- April 9, 1962 at 03:04 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Midas 5
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,408 km
- Periapsis
- 2,786 km
- Inclination
- 86.66°
- Orbital period
- 152.98 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,982.16 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.5 × 8.99 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-010A
- NORAD catalog №
- 271
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 8.2159 m²
- Status
- active