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Quill 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 21 Dec 1964, 07:08 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor SLV-2A Agena D (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
This Quill mission was the first radar reconnaissance sat developed by the NRO in the P-40 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) proof-of-concept program.