1971

1971 · United States Air Force

Canyon 4

failureAtlas SLV-3A Agena D | Canyon 4

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
December 4, 1971 at 10:33 PM UTC
Outcome
failure
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 13
Mission
Canyon 4
Mission type
Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved
Geostationary Orbit