MIDAS 8, a U.S. Air Force Missile Defense Alarm System infrared early-warning satellite with TRS-7 and TRS-8 piggybacks. Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Point Arguello failed to reach the intended medium Earth orbit on 12 June 1963.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 12 June 1963, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1963
- 27th of 69