No one has heard from the spacecraft since.
comm check" for several minutes after the loss of signal from the spacecraft.
Then, just around the time of closest approach, the signal from the spacecraft disappeared.
The signal from the spacecraft will drop through the floor to 1kb/s.
In a live link from the spacecraft, Colonel Yang told his family he felt "very good".
The headline was the release of the most recent batch of data from the spacecraft.
This weekend [1-2 October], we start to move into conjunction [where the sun blocks the signal from the spacecraft].
Oman yesterday declared a full state of alert against a possible shower of debris from the spacecraft.
The vent line allows excess pressure to flow away from the tank and away from the spacecraft.
The agency's monitoring unit near the southern city of Bangalore was no longer receiving data from the spacecraft, he said.
The glaring absence of any signals or other signs of life from the spacecraft suggests it is dormant or dead.
