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Kosmos 6 (Russian: Космос 6 meaning Cosmos 6) also known as DS-P1 No.1 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 16 was a prototype radar target satellite for anti-ballistic missile tests which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1962. It was the sixth satellite to be designated under the Kosmos system and the second spacecraft launched as part of the DS programme to successfully reach orbit after Kosmos 1.