The Indian space agency lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission on Friday night, in a setback to the nation's ambitious plan to land an unmanned probe near the south pole of the moon.
Kailasavadivoo Sivan, the agency's chairman, said that "data is being analysed" at a tracking centre in Bengaluru in an attempt to find out what happened.
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