On Friday, December 21, at 03:20, the Space Force of the Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Proton-M vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a spacecraft in the interest of the Russian Defence Ministry.

All the pre-launch operations and the launch itself was carried out as planned. Ground means of the auromated control comples controlled the launch and flight of the rocket.

Five minutes of the launch, the Proton-M was accepted for control by ground-based facilities of the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre.

At the estimated time, the spacecraft of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation was launched into the targeted orbit by the Briz-M booster, and accepted for control by ground-based facilities of the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre.

The spacecraft's onboard systems are functioning normally.

It was assigned the serial number "Space-2533".