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A unmanned Russian Progress cargo spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was destroyed six minutes after lift off from Kazakhstan.
But ground control teams then lost radio contact with the rocket and most of the spacecraft fragments burned in the dense atmosphere, Roscosmos said in a statement.
It added that the capsule was last confirmed flying at an altitude of about 190km over the remote and unpopulated area of the Republic of Tuva.
A Soyuz-FG rocket blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in mid-November. Photo: AP
The accident comes at a critical time because SpaceX, one of two US companies flying supplies to the station for NASA, has not yet returned to flight following a September 1 launch pad accident.
SpaceX is awaiting approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees US commercial space transportation, to fly as early as December 16 with 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications Inc.
SpaceX's next cargo flight for NASA is targeted for January. Orbital ATK and Japan's space agency also fly supplies to the station.
Launch of a Japanese cargo ship is scheduled for December 9.