MIDAS 4 with Project West Ford 1, a USAF infrared missile early-warning satellite plus MIT Lincoln Lab copper-dipole dispenser on an Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Vandenberg; MIDAS attitude control failed in orbit and the West Ford needles failed to deploy.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 21 October 1961, 13:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-028
- Launches in 1961
- 37th of 50
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