REFILE-India loses contact with Chandrayaan-2 moon mission

The Indian space agency lost communication with its Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission on Saturday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation said, in a setback to the nation's ambitious plan to land an unmanned probe near the south pole of the moon. "Data is being analyzed," Chairman K Sivan told a room full of distraught scientists at the agency's tracking center in Bengaluru.

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