Monday, October 26, 1970

Midas 12

 1966-089A


The final MIDAS flight, number 12, entered a 3700 km circular orbit on 1966 Oct 5. It operated for 372 days.

As well as ORS and EGRS subsatellites, Vela and AFAPL secondary payloads may have been carried.


RTS-1 F3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 Oct 5  2200 Launch by Atlas Agena D  
 2204 T+4:50? Atlas sep 
 2205 T+5:46? Agena D MES-1 
 2209  T+9:26? Agena-D MECO-1  
 2310?  MES-2 
 2315? EGRS ejected 
  MECO-2 167.6 3682 x 3702 x 90.2

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