NEW DELHI: India’s $80-million moon mission suffered a serious blow on Saturday as ground station lost radio contact with the lunar craft. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) abruptly lost contact with the unmanned spacecraft at around 0130am local time (2000 GMT) on Friday. Data was last received from spacecraft shortly after midnight on Saturday. “The mission is definitely over. We have lost contact with the spacecraft,” Project Director of the Chandrayaan-1 mission M Annadurai told reporters. He, however, claimed the mission had “technically completed its job 100 percent and scientifically... almost 90-95 percent”. S Satish, public relations director of ISRO, earlier told TV channels that scientists were unable to determine what was happening to Chandrayaan-1. “We are not able to establish communication with the spacecraft – that is what we mean by loss of radio link. It is some sort of serious problem,” said Satish. Job done: An ISRO press release, issued in Bangalore, sa...
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