MOSCOW, Oct. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- The Russian Federal Space Agency said Saturday it had lost contact with a European satellite two hours after it was launched on a Russian rocket.

    Contact with the CryoSat satellite was lost two hours after it blasted off from the Plesetsk space center, it said.

    A command of the Russian Space Forces said the satellite and the rocket had fallen into the sea near the Arctic, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. Enditem