
NRO Program C Poppy 3 ELINT multipayload—Poppy 3A (Solrad 7A), 3B, 3C (GGSE 1), SECOR 1, and Hayloft (AFTRACK 37). Thrust-Augmented Thor Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted the stack into LEO on 11 January 1964.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 225 kg
- Flight
- 11th
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 11 January 1964, 20:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1964-001
- Launches in 1964
- 1st of 100
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