Canyon 5 (OPS 9390), a U.S. Air Force geosynchronous SIGINT satellite launched on an Atlas SLV-3A Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 for strategic communications intercept.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 350 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 12 Atlas SLV-3A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1972, 22:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3A Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-101
- Launches in 1972
- 108th of 113
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