India analyses loss of lunar orbiter

Abstract

After a flawless launch last year, Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar orbiter, has come to a disappointing end. In the early hours of 29 August, the tracking network of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) lost its link with the satellite, just 312 days into a planned two-year mission. However, ISRO scientists have concluded that the 11 onboard experiments had "largely met their objectives of studying the Moon from different perspectives".