Kosmos 849 (Russian: Космос 849 meaning Cosmos 849), also known as DS-P1-I No.17 was a satellite which was used as a radar target for anti-ballistic missile tests.

It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1976 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme.

[1] It was launched aboard a Kosmos-2I 63SM rocket,[2] from Site 133/1 at Plesetsk.

[3] Kosmos 849 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 264 kilometres (164 mi), an apogee of 865 kilometres (537 mi), 71 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 96 minutes.

[4] Kosmos 849 was the seventeenth of nineteen DS-P1-I satellites to be launched.