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Midas 5
Atlas Agena B · Government/Top Secret
1962Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg
Mission
Military Defense Alarm System satellite designed to detect ICBMs using 175 infrared detectors. This launch also carried a batch of West Ford needles.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas Agena B
- Orbit
- PO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 3E
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2