Russia's recent poor launch record has continued with yet another Soyuz rocket failure.
This time, a Soyuz-2 vehicle failed to put a communications satellite into orbit after lifting away from the country's Plesetsk spaceport.
Debris is said to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere near the western Siberian town of Tobolsk.
In August, a Soyuz failure on a mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
Rocket was carrying a Meridian-5 satellite, designed to provide communication between ships, planes and coastal stations on the ground, according to RIA Novosti.
It was a Soyuz-2.1b, the most modern version of the rocket that has been in service in various forms since the 1960s.
