Chandrayan-I came to an abrupt end today after ISRO lost communication

with the spacecraft, cutting

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short the dream odyssey ten months after it was launched.

The mission that was to last two years is "definitely over. We have lost contact with the spacecraft," Project Director of the Chandrayaan-1 mission M Annadurai told PTI.

ISRO Chairman Madhavan Nair said scientists were analysing what has gone wrong and whether there was any possibility of recovery.

He said 95 per cent of the scientific objectives of the mission have been completed.

Asked if the mission is over, he said, "we will have to face the reality but we will have a better opportunity tomorrow".

The two-year mission, launched on October 22 last year with much fanfare, was abandoned early today after radio contact with the mooncraft was abruptly lost at 0130 hours.

The Deep Space Network at Byalalu near here received the data from the 1,380 kg Chandrayaan-1, which carried 11 instruments on board, including six from overseas, during the previous orbit up to 0025 hours.

ISRO is conducting detailed review of the telemetry data from the spacecraft. "We will analyse as to what happened," Annadura