OREANDA-NEWS. March 03, 2010. Proton-M/DM launch vehicle lifted off successfully today at 00.19 (GMT +3) from Baikonur spaceport with 3 spacecrafts proposed for Russian Global Navigation System.

After DM upper stage with three Glonass-M spacecrafts' separation from LV’s third stage, DM upper stage proceeded with orbiting the cluster.

According to the launch program Glonass-M cluster was put into the target orbit at 3.52 (GMT +3).