India's ambitious maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-1 came to an abrupt end after Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the spacecraft on Saturday.
Radio contact with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India's maiden moon mission launched on October 22 last year, was lost on early Saturday. Project Director M Annadurai saying that the mission is now over.
He said the mission has done technically its job 100 per cent and scientifically almost 95 percent of its job. Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, launched by homegrown PSLV-C11 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, has completed 312 days in orbit, making more than 3,400 orbits around the moon.
Though Chandrayan was expected to send data for two years, it lasted only ten months. Lunar craft of other countries had not lasted beyond 6-7 months. Mapping-wise everything has been completed, except for a few patches, an ISRO official said.
ISRO said the majority of the electronic systems are fine only communication system has failed.
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