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UPHAM — A rocket that took off from New Mexico's spaceport crash-landed in the desert after a few minutes in the air, failing in its mission to reach sub-orbital space, officials said.

It wasn't immediately clear where the rocket landed, or what condition it was in. The 20-foot SpaceLoft XL rocket, among the first to launch from a commercial spaceport, was carrying 50 experimental and other payloads for its planned journey 70 miles above Earth.

The rocket took of at 2:14 p.m., and was due back about 13 minutes later at White Sands Missile Range, just north of the launch site.

But something apparently went wrong, sending the rocket prematurely to the ground.