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Cosmodrome / Location : USA

Date of Cancellation: April 9, 1962
Event Type : Launch
Launch Pad / Location : USA Lompoc (CA)
Manned / Robotic Mission : Robotic
Mission Objective/Type : Military / Secret
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ou?/where?: au sol - ground
autographe?: non - none

Description : MIDAS 5, the third and last of the Series 2 flights carrying a Baird-Atomic infrared payload, lifted from Vandenberg AFB on 9 April 1962. The spacecraft achieve its planned polar orbit, stabilized properly, and the solar arrays extended and began generating the needed electrical power. Turned on, the infrared payload checked-out during the first few orbits of the Earth. During the sixth orbit a massive electrical power failure occurred aboard MIDAS 5, and all control over the vehicle was lost.

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