A European Space Agency satellite designed to gather information on the state of Earth's ice formations has been destroyed in flight, according to news reports.
Russia's Federal Space Agency said that all contact was lost with CryoSat during a period of 20 minutes after it was supposed to have achieved orbit. The agency was trying to determine the exactly why the failure occurred.
The spacecraft fell harmlessly into the ocean.
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