Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Ekspress MD2 is a Russian communications satellite which was lost due to a launch failure on 6 August 2012. Equipped with eight C band transponders and one L band transponder it was intended to be located in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 145° east. It was the second Ekspress MD satellite to be launched following Ekspress MD1 in 2009.
