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Midas 5
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 9 Apr 1962, 03:04 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas Agena B (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Military Defense Alarm System satellite designed to detect ICBMs using 175 infrared detectors. This launch also carried a batch of West Ford needles.