Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Meridian 5 (Russian: Меридиан-5) was a communications satellite launched by the Russian Federal Space Agency which was lost in a launch failure in December 2011. The fifth Meridian spacecraft to be launched Meridian 5 was to have been deployed into a Molniya orbit with an apogee of 39000 kilometres (24000 mi) a perigee of 900 kilometres (560 mi) and 65 degrees of orbital inclination; from which it would have provided communications for the Russian military.