1975 · United States Air Force

Canyon 6

successAtlas SLV-3A Agena D | Canyon 6

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: June 18, 1975 at 09:00 AM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 13
Mission: Canyon 6
Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved: Geostationary Orbit

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Payloads deployed · 1

OPS 4966

Payload