Payload
MIDAS 6 (FTV 1169)
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MIDAS 6 (FTV 1169) is a United States payload satellite, launched on May 9, 1963 into MEO.
Launch
- Launch date
- May 9, 1963 at 08:06 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SFB, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Midas 7
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 3,676 km
- Periapsis
- 3,612 km
- Inclination
- 87.35°
- Orbital period
- 166.42 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 1,540 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø1.5 × 2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1963-014A
- NORAD catalog №
- 574
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 10.0295 m²
- Status
- active