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