Chandrayaan1

Chandrayaan-1  was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre,SHAR,Sriharikota

by PSLV-C11 on 22 October 2008.It is a lunar satellite.India became one of the few countries which launched a lunar satellite.Acc to sources of  ISRO, it was estimated to work for 2 years.But on 29 August 2009 communication with the spacecraft was suddenly lost. The probe had operated for only 312 days.There was no correct reason with ISRO for the failure but overheating due to radiation is responsible for it upto some extent.
                            Immediately after the press meet our media stated that Chandrayaan was a failure. Its greatest success came to light when NASA appreciated the effort of Chandrayaan team which is responsible for finding water levels on moon.                                                                      "Chandryaan1 ia 110% a great success"-Madhavan Nair

images taken by Chandrayaan1

The Chadrayaan-1 Spacecraft animation