Russia's space agency said its unmanned cargo space ship that blasted off Thursday to the International Space Station has crashed due to an unspecified malfunction.

Roscosmos said in a statement posted to its website that the Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft crashed at the altitude of 190 kilometers (118 miles) over the remote Russian Tyva region that borders Mongolia. The agency said most of the space ship's debris burnt as it entered the atmosphere.

The cargo ship launched on time at 9:51 a.m. EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It entered an orbit nine minutes later and was set to dock with the space station on Saturday before the ship experienced a third-state operation anomaly.

Russia's space agency Roscosmos said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the transmission of data from the ship cut off 383 seconds after the launch. It added that experts are looking into the cause of the glitch.

"As we get updates from Roscosmos, we will provide them," NASA said on its official International Space Station blog. "Our astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts are safe aboard the station. Consumables aboard the station are at good levels."

The Russian spacecraft was carrying more than 2.6 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 50 crew aboard the space station. Roscosmos said the crash of the ship would have no impact on the operations of the orbiting lab that is currently home to a six-member crew, including three cosmonauts from Russia, two NASA astronauts and one from the European Union.

The Progress has been in service for more than four decades, and its current version is fully digital and features an improved docking system.

The space station is currently inhabited by NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, Russians Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko and Oleg Novitskiy, and Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency.

The Progress 65 cargo spaceship launched on time Thursday morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (NASA TV)