Classified NROL-23 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, deploying a pair of Naval Ocean Surveillance System (NOSS) ocean-surveillance satellites from Cape Canaveral. This was the sixth and final flight of the Atlas III, capping 75 consecutive successful Atlas missions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 4 Atlas IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 2005, 07:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2005-004
- Launches in 2005
- 4th of 56
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