MOSCOW, February 15 (Itar-Tass) — The carrier rocket Proton-M with a Dutch communications satellite blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrone on Tuesday night.
Alexander Bobrenyov, spokesman of the Khrunichev space research and production center, has told Itar-Tass, "The liftoff of the carrier rocket Proton-M, fitted out with the acceleration unit Briz-M, was effected at 23:36, Moscow time".