From the Baikonur cosmodrome on the last working day of the week started the carrier rocket "proton-M" With the spacecraft for the Ministry of defense of Russia, informs Department of information and mass communications Department. All pre-launch operations and launch were in operation. Ground-based automated control complex of supervised launch and flight vehicle. in estimated time, 03. 30 GMT, the space head part of the rocket upper stage "breeze-M" and the satellite separated from the third stage. The operation was in operation. The removal of spacecraft into orbit takes a couple of hours. <span style="color:darkgray