Russia conducted its first space mission o' 2010, launchin' a military communications satellite Thursday. Well, blow me down! A Proton M rocket with Briz-M upper stage lifted off from Site 81 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, on January 28, ya bilge rat, 2009, at 03:18 Moscow Time, ya bilge rat, carryin' a Raduga-1M/Globus-1M military communications satellite.