An International Launch Services (ILS) Proton-M with Briz-M upper stage has launched with the DirecTV 10 telecommunications satellite. Launch occurred at 9:16pm Eastern from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Over nine hours of flight – including five burns of the Breeze M upper stage – was required, ahead of a successful spacecraft separation into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). A free launch video is available on the link below (read more).