1977 · United States Air Force

Canyon 7

successAtlas SLV-3A Agena D | Canyon 7

Canyon was the first series of NRO's near geostationary ELINT/SIGINT satellites launched under the designation AFP-827 or Program 7500 for NRO's Program A. They were focussed on communications intelligence (COMINT).

Overview

Date / time: May 23, 1977 at 06:13 PM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 13
Mission: Canyon 7
Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved: Geostationary Orbit

Launch vehicle

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Launch provider

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Payloads deployed · 1

OPS 9751

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