Atlas SLV-3A Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 launched OPS 4258 (Aquacade 3), a U.S. NRO/CIA geosynchronous SIGINT/ELINT eavesdropping satellite in the Rhyolite/Aquacade series monitoring foreign communications and telemetry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 700 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 12 Atlas SLV-3A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1977, 22:45 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
- 1977-114
- Launches in 1977
- 120th of 130
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