Kosmos 633

Kosmos 633 (Russian: Космос 633 meaning Cosmos 633), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.71, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1974 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme.

It was a 400-kilogram (880 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests.

[1] The launch of Kosmos 633 occurred at 11:05 UTC on 27 February 1974, and resulted in the satellite successfully reaching low Earth orbit.

[2] The launch took place from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome,[3] and used a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket.

[4] The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 07187.