MIDAS 9 (Missile Defense Alarm System Series 3), a U.S. Air Force infrared early-warning satellite, with DASH 2 and TRS 9/10 secondaries. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Vandenberg lofted them on 19 July 1963 into ~3700 km polar MEO; one solar array failed to deploy, but the IR payload still detected U.S. and Soviet missiles over 96 orbits.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 24th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 19 July 1963, 03:51 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
- 1963-030
- Launches in 1963
- 39th of 69
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