Showing posts with label Project Quill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project Quill. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

NRO Has declassified Project Quill


Courtesy of Ted Molczan and the SEESAT-L newgroup:

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has declassified Project Quill. It resulted in the launch of an experimental synthetic aperture radar satellite in December 1964 (FTV 2355 / 1964-087A / 00964). The mission successfully proved the concept.

The declassified documents are available at http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/QUILL.html