Re: Midas 9

From: Allen Thomson (thomsona@flash.net)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2001 - 08:23:38 EDT

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    > The Midas satellites don't work anymore.  These satellites were one of the
    > first satellites designed for Early Warning purposes.  They are in fact
    > Agena rockets with a payload attached to them but nobody has ever seen a
    > picture of it(I think).  After all these years the looks of these
    > satellites remain classified.
    
     Somewhere along the way it got declassified (not that it's anything
    particularly
     remarkable). See the article starting at
    http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/02/article3a.html
    
    
    
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