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SEOUL, June 10 (Reuters) - A South Korean space rocket carrying a scientific satellite crashed two minutes into the flight on Thursday in the second failure in two tries to put a payload in orbit, YTN television said.

Mission control lost signal of the rocket at 137 seconds into the flight, the country’s spy agency chief told a briefing. YTN said the rocket crashed at that point.