[RKV]

Long ago and far away, when I was a nugget systems guy at VAFB if I had uttered the letters NRO together outside of the scif, I’d have lost my clearance and job. Now they announce the launches. And they have a NRO exhibit on the first floor of the Air and Space Museum in DC. Wonder what else we got going now? Heh.

[Army Air Corps]

Indeed. The magazine Air and Space has had, almost from the beginning, a feature titled "The Satellite Sky" in which they list satellites launched since the previous issue. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, they would list a launch such as this as somthing as simple as "DoD".