"Contact with the carrier rocket was lost in the 540th second after liftoff," the official specified, adding, "It is known that the nose cone did not separate from the rocket".
"Efforts are being made to find out the causes of the emergency," the Federal Agency official pointed out.
The carrier rocket Proton-M was to deploy into orbit a Russian communications satellite Express-AM4R the highest-powered and technologically effective commsat which was intended to become a third spacecraft of the Express series launched in 2014.
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