Military
NORAD ID: 29668
Int'l Code: 2006-061A
Perigee: 2,414.4 km
Apogee: 37,960.1 km
Inclination: 65.4 °
Period: 717.9 minutes
Semi major axis: 26558 km
Launch date: December 24, 2006
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Comments: The Meridian spacecraft was designed to ensure communications of sea-going ships and ice reconnaissance planes in the area of the Northern Sea Route with coastal stations as well as expansion of the network of satellite communication stations in northern areas of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Such satellites will operate on high-elliptical orbits. They will help to expand meter bands of radio frequencies and will be more reliable and of higher longevity
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 29668U 06061A 15029.62482899 .00000169 00000-0 00000+0 0 1075
2 29668 065.3517 186.9724 6692028 255.9061 131.7127 02.00587511 59328
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for MERIDIAN 1
