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Canyon 5
Atlas SLV-3A Agena D · Government/Top Secret
1972Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral
Mission
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).
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3A Agena D
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 13
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2