Spacecraft type DS-P1-I Rocket Kosmos-2I 63SM Launch date 26 June 1974 Decay date 28 August 1976 | COSPAR ID 1974-047A Launch mass 400 kilograms (880 lb) Manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Office | |
People also search for Kosmos 686, Kosmos 668, Kosmos 695 | ||
Kosmos 662 (Russian: Космос 662 meaning Cosmos 662), also known as DS-P1-I No.14 was a satellite which was used as a radar target for anti-ballistic missile tests. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1974 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme.
It was launched aboard a Kosmos-2I 63SM rocket, from Site 133/1 at Plesetsk. The launch occurred at 12:30 UTC on 26 June 1974.
Kosmos 662 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 271 kilometres (168 mi), an apogee of 812 kilometres (505 mi), 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 95.5 minutes. It decayed from orbit on 28 August 1976.
Kosmos 662 was the fourteenth of nineteen DS-P1-I satellites to be launched. Of these, all reached orbit successfully except the seventh.