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