The ILS Proton/Breeze-M launched from Pad 24 at 12:38 a.m. today local time (2:38 p.m. EDT, 18:38 GMT on July 9) has successfully delivered SES-5 satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit. Built by Space Systems/Loral and based on the flight-proven SS/L 1300 platform the satellite has separated exactly after 9 hours, 12 minutes mission.
