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MOSCOW — Russia lost contact with a communications satellite shortly after its launch Thursday, the government space agency said, the latest in a series of failures that has dogged the nation's space program.

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In December 2010, another technical glitch led to the loss of three GLONASS-M navigation satellites, which were to be part of Russia's satellite navigation system competing with the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS. That mishap eventually cost then-space chief Anatoly Perminov his job.

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