MIDAS-3, a USAF Missile Defense Alarm System infrared early-warning satellite for ballistic-missile launch detection, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello LC-1-2 on 12 July 1961. Maiden orbital flight of Atlas LV-3A Agena-B; placed successfully into Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 1961, 15:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-018
- Launches in 1961
- 24th of 50
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