Kosmos 562

Kosmos 562 (Russian: Космос 562 meaning Cosmos 562), known before launch as DS-P1-Yu No.66, was a Soviet satellite which was launched in 1973 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was a 400-kilogram (880 lb) spacecraft, which was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and was used as a radar calibration target for anti-ballistic missile tests.^[1]

Launch

Kosmos 562 was successfully launched into low Earth orbit at 11:29:47 UTC on 5 June 1973.^[2] The launch took place from Site 133/1 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome,^[3] and used a Kosmos-2I 63SM carrier rocket.

Orbit

Upon reaching orbit, the satellite was assigned its Kosmos designation, and received the International Designator 1973-035A.^[4] The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 06665.

Kosmos 562 was the sixty-third of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched,^[1] and the fifty-seventh of seventy two to successfully reach orbit.^[5] It was operated in an orbit with a perigee of 267 kilometres (166 mi), an apogee of 464 kilometres (288 mi), 70.9 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.9 minutes.^[6] It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 7 January 1974.^[6]

See also

• 1973 in spaceflight

References