Kosmos 562 (DS-P1-Yu #63), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite launched on a Kosmos-2I (11K63) from Plesetsk for air-defense and space-surveillance radar calibration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 103rd
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 5 June 1973, 11:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1973-035
- Launches in 1973
- 38th of 116
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