On a night appropriately filled with thick fog, the last Atlas
3B rocket carries a spy satellite into orbit for the National
Reconnaissance Office. With even the nearby launch pad obscured
by thick intervening fog, this cloak-and-dagger launch was seen
only briefly well at altitude through a hole in the clouds as
the rocket slipped away into the night trailing a tail of flame.
Launch occurred on time at 2:41 a.m. 3 February 2005 from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station.  Copyright Notice.