An unmanned cargo ship travelling to the International Space Station burned up in the atmosphere shortly after lauching.
The cargo ship’s loss occurred some 190 kilometres above the remote, unpopulated mountainous territory of [Russia’s] Tuva region.
Communication was lost today 383 seconds after the launch of the Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the cargo ship Progress MS-04.
The ship was carrying 2.4 tonnes of fuel, food and equipment when it took off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
A Progress cargo ship launch failed in April 2015. The failure, which Russia blamed on a problem in a Soyuz rocket, saw the ship disintegrate as it plummeted to Earth.
