Kosmos 705 (russian: Космос 705 meaning ''Cosmos 705''), also known as DS-P1-Yu No.75, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1975 as part of the

Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik (russian: Днепропетровский Спутник; ua, Дніпропетровський супутник), also known as DS, was a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1982. DS satel ...

programme. It was a spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for

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tests. A

Kosmos-2I Kosmos-2I (GRAU Index: 11K63, also known as Cosmos-2I and also known by the designation Kosmos-2) is the designation applied to two Soviet carrier rockets, members of the R-12 Kosmos rocket family, which were used to orbit satellites between 196 ...

63SM carrier rocket was used to launch Kosmos 705 from Site 133/1 of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The launch occurred at 12:05:01 UTC on 28 January 1975, and resulted in the satellite successfully reaching low Earth orbit. Upon reaching orbit, the satellite was assigned its

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designation, and received the International Designator 1975-006A. The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 07623. Kosmos 705 was the seventy-fifth of seventy nine

DS-P1-Yu DS-P1-Yu was a series of Soviet satellites developed by the Yuzhnoye Design Office of Ukraine, for use in calibrating the Dnestr space surveillance and early-warning radar system. Between 1964 and 1976, a total of 79 satellites were launched on ...

satellites to be launched, and the sixty-eighth of seventy two to successfully reach orbit. It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 92.1 minutes. It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 18 November 1975.

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