Canyon 6 (AFP-827, OPS 4966), an NRO SIGINT COMINT satellite of the Canyon series monitoring foreign communications from near-geosynchronous orbit. Atlas SLV-3A Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 lofted the craft on 18 June 1975 into a high Earth / near-GEO orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 350 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 12 Atlas SLV-3A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1975, 09:00 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
- 1975-055
- Launches in 1975
- 59th of 132
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