Kosmos 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 , an apogee of , 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.

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1974 in spaceflight

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