Yamal-101 (Russian: Ямал-101) was an intended geostationary communications satellite that was lost after launch.

It was built by RSC Energia and operated by Gazprom Space Systems.

[6] It was launched successfully with Yamal-102, on 6 September 1999 at 16:36:00 UTC from Baikonur Site 81/23 by a Proton-K / Blok DM-2M directly to geostationary orbit.

[7][8] Due to a failure in the electrical system at solar panel deployment it was lost right after launch.

This caused significant confusion, but the records are clear that the satellite that failed was the original Yamal-101.