Moscow, Russia, December 26, 2013 – Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (Khrunichev) announced the successful Proton M Breeze M launch of the Express-AM5 communications satellite for the Russian Federation today. This was the 10th Proton launch this year and the 393rd Proton launch overall since its maiden flight in 1965. The satellite was built by ISS-Reshetnev and MDA.

The Proton liftoff occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan on December 26th.