Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with the European Eutelsat 9B communications satellite was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesperson of Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos told RIA Novosti.

"The Proton carrier rocket was launched at the designated time [on Saturday] – 01:20 Moscow time [22:20 GMT on Friday]," the spokesperson said.

The launch was previously postponed from January 28 to January 30 due to unfavourable weather conditions.