India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday. Communications with the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, which has been orbiting the moon for nearly a year, snapped Saturday and scientists lost control of the satellite. The space agency's efforts to restore contact since then have failed, agency spokesman S. Satish told The Associated Press. «The mission has been terminated,» Satish quoted G. Madhavan Nair, chief of the Indian Space Research Organization, as saying Sunday. The space agency said it is investigating the communications failure.
