Russian military satellite launched by Proton rocket

A Russian Proton rocket hauled a military communications satellite into orbit early Saturday. The three-stage Proton booster, topped by a Block DM upper stage, blasted off at 0410 GMT (11:10 p.m. EST Friday) from Complex 81 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket's Block DM upper stage completed several burns to place mission's payload into a geosynchronous transfer orbit stretching from an altitude of approximately 136 miles to a high point of about 22,000 miles. More

(Source: SpaceFlightNow.com - Mar 1)