“About 2 minutes 27 seconds after launch, the Zefiro 40 crashed, ending the Vega-C mission,” the company said on its Twitter page.
It is noted that data is currently being analyzed to determine the causes of the incident.
The rocket was supposed to launch the Pleiades Neo 5 and Pleiades Neo 6 Earth remote sensing satellites into orbit.
Earlier, the head of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov, spoke about the plans of the state corporation to build two new satellite factories for the serial production of spacecraft.