Roscosmos – the Russian Space Agency – has successfully launched a Proton-M rocket with two Russian Ekspress communications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan.
The flight took 18 hours to complete and launched from Site No. 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 00:25:19 Moscow time on Friday, 31 July (or 21:25:19 UTC on Thursday, 30 July).