NRO L-10 mission patch "The mission was dedicated to Mr. Dan Potter, a longtime NRO employee who was a volunteer in the Partners in Education Program at Cub Run Elementary School in Centreville, VA. Potter died two years before the flight, and to commemorate his dedicated work as a tutor and mentor at the school, a logo was displayed on the Atlas II's payload fairing representing the Great Bear constellation - Ursa Major. (The bear is the mascot of Cub Run Elementary School.) More than 700 entries were submitted by the school's students and the winning logo was designed by Samantha Wingo." The payload (USA 155) is an American military (NRO) spacecraft that was launched by an Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral at 02:47 UT. A report has it that it may be a satellite just to collect and relay data from NRO's many photo-reconnaissance satellites.