MIDAS-5, a USAF Missile Defense Alarm System infrared early-warning satellite, launched with Project Westford copper-dipole packets on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello on 9 April 1962. Placed in medium Earth orbit for ballistic-missile launch detection.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 9 April 1962, 15:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-010
- Launches in 1962
- 12th of 81
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