Kosmos 558 (DS-P1-Yu #62), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite launched on a Kosmos-2I (11K63) from Plesetsk for space-surveillance and air-defense radar calibration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 102nd
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1973, 13:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1973-029
- Launches in 1973
- 30th of 116
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