MIDAS 1, the first Missile Defense Alarm System infrared early-warning satellite, failed when its Atlas-Agena A from Cape Canaveral tumbled after Agena telemetry ceased—likely from accidental Agena ISDS activation before staging.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Atlas LV-3 Agena A flights
- Date and time
- 26 February 1960, 17:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena A
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1960
- 3rd of 38