Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
22:00:00
Wednesday October 5, 1966
This Missile Defense Alarm System (MIDAS) satellite was launched along with SECOR 8 from Vandenberg AFB aboard an Atlas Agena D rocket. The MIDAS program, also known as Air Force Program 461, carried out 12 launches between 1960 and 1966 using four different types of increasingly sophisticated infrared sensors. The objective was to develop a satellite that could carry an infrared sensor to detect ICBM launches.
1 Payload
2,000 kilograms
81st
Mission
19th
Mission of 1966
99th
Orbital launch attempt