Proton-Breeze M launcher, carrying the DirecTV-12 satellite for DIRECTV Inc., lifted off from Pad 39 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 03:22 Moscow time Dec. 29th. In 9 hours 15 minutes, Breeze-M upper stage successfully injected DirecTV-12 satellite, weighing almost 6 tons, into geostationary transfer orbit. This was the 10th out of 10 successful Proton launches in 2009, and the 351st Proton's mission.
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