1962 · United States Air Force
Midas 6
failureAtlas Agena B | Midas 6
MIDAS Series 3 (Military Defense Alarm System) early warning satellite.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 17, 1962 at 08:36 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E
- Mission
- Midas 6
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit achieved
- Medium Earth Orbit