Proton blasts off with Russian military payload

A Proton rocket launched overnight Thursday with a Russian defense ministry satellite to relay communications between troops and military commanders. The silver launcher blasted off at 0018 GMT Thursday (7:18 p.m. EST Wednesday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, kicking off a nine-hour mission that included multiple burns of the Breeze M upper stage. More

(Source: Space Flight Now - Jan 29)