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Launch 1964-001: NRL Composite 4

Thor 390/Agena 23541964 Jan 11



Launch Result

Success.

Launched Objects

COSPARJCAT Name AltName Owner Mass/kg
1964-001ES00731POPPY 3A NRO Mission 7103A (PL135) NRL 29
1964-001DS00730POPPY 3B NRO Mission 7103B (PL124/SR VIIA) NRL 40
1964-001BS00728POPPY 3C NRO Mission 7103C (PL134/GGSE I) NRL 38
1964-001CS00729EGRS I Secor II-2 Army ERDL 18
1964-001AA00435 Agena D 2354 Agena D 2354 AF 600?
1964-001AS00727 HAYLOFT NRO Mission 7210 (AFTRACK) AF 5?

Notes

POPPY 3: Mass data in NCST and POPPY History allow us to correlate POPPY 3A,B,C with their entries in the NCST list. The lifetime information, however, does not match. They have been matched with tracked objects via the names in the SATCAT, which make sense for once.

POPPY 3C carried an experimental gravity gradient system that was referred to publicly as GGSE I (Gravity Gradient Stabilization Experiment I). A paper on GGSE I,II and III was published in NASA SP-107.

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