The Indian Space Research Organization says radio contacts with Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft were abruptly lost early Saturday.
Space agency spokesman S. Satish told CNN-IBN television that the organization´s monitoring unit near the southern city of Bangalore is no longer receiving data from the spacecraft nor is the satellite accepting commands.
The launch of Chandrayaan-1 in October 2008 put India in an elite club of countries with moon missions. Other countries with similar satellites are the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China.
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