In this image provided by Space Center Yuzhny on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, the Proton-M booster rocket with Express-AM4 satellite is lifted for a blast off at the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Space center Yuzhny)

MOSCOW (AP) — 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.

The Express-AM4 satellite, described by officials as Russia’s most powerful telecommunications satellite, was launched atop a Proton-M booster rocket from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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