POPPY 1 (Mission 7101), the first NRO/NRL POPPY electronic-intelligence cluster (two ELINT satellites), with secondary payloads Injun 3, SURCAL 2, Calsphere 1, and AFTRACK Wild Bill. Thor Agena-D from Vandenberg placed the multi-satellite stack into LEO to collect Soviet radar emissions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 112 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 13 Thor Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1962, 04:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-067
- Launches in 1962
- 75th of 81
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