Missile Defense Alarm System
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The Missile Defense Alarm System, or MIDAS, was a United States Air Force Air Defense Command system of 12 early-warning satellites that provided limited notice of Soviet intercontinental ballistic mi
A MIDAS infrared sensor.
Samos (satellite)
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The SAMOS or SAMOS-E program was a relatively short-lived series of reconnaissance satellites for the United States in the early 1960s, also used as a cover for the initial development of the KH-7 GAM
Missile Defense Alarm System
…Support Program. MiDAS represented one element of the United States's first generation of reconnaissance satellites that also included the Corona and SAMOS series. Though MIDAS failed in its primary role as a system of infrared early-warning satellites, it pioneered the technologies needed in successor…
An artist impression of SAMOS photoreconnaissance missions.
U.S. reconnaissance satellites: SAMOS at the top left and CORONA at the bottom left.
Atlas LV-3 Agena-A with SAMOS 1
Atlas LV-3 Agena-A with SAMOS 2