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Kazakhstan|life|December 2, 2016 / 09:42 AM
Unmanned Russian spacecraft launches from Baikonur and crashes in Siberia

AKIPRESS.COM - An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship that launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur heading to the International Space Station broke up in the atmosphere over Siberia on Thursday due to an unspecified malfunction, the Russian space agency said.

The Progress MS-04 cargo craft broke up at an altitude of 190 kilometers over the remote Russian Tuva region in Siberia that borders Mongolia, Roscosmos said in a statement.

Roscosmos said most of spaceship's debris burnt up as it entered the atmosphere but some fell to Earth over what it called an uninhabited area.

The Progress cargo ship had lifted off as scheduled at 8:51 p.m. (1451 GMT) from Russia's space launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, to deliver 2.5 metric tons of fuel, water, food and other supplies. It was set to dock with the space station on Saturday.

Roscosmos said the craft was operating normally before it stopped transmitting data 6 minutes after the launch, AP reported.

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