India loses track of its moon satellite

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India's first moon mission controllers lost radio contact with the country's only satellite orbiting the moon, the national space agency has reported.

India's national space agency said all communication links with the unmanned satellite were abruptly lost on Saturday and was no longer controlled by scientists.

The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft lost its radio contact with the agency's monitoring unit near the southern city of Bangalore unexpectedly early on Saturday.

The spacecraft was launched last October to put India in an esteemed club of countries with 'moon missions'. Other countries with similar satellites are the US, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China.

The mission was billed to be a two-year mission of exploration. The spacecraft had completed approximately 95 percent of its objectives.

The spacecraft had completed 312 days in orbit and orbited the moon more than 3,400 times.

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