MOSCOW: An unmanned cargo ship traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) burned up in the atmosphere shortly after launch on Thursday, Russia’s space agency said.

“According to preliminary information, as a result of an abnormal situation, the cargo ship’s loss occurred some 190 kilometers [110 miles] above the remote, unpopulated mountainous territory of [Russia’s] Tuva region, and most fragments burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere,” the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities said in a statement.

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