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] 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.

[4] The North American Aerospace Defense Command assigned it the catalogue number 06665.

[6] It remained in orbit until it decayed and reentered the atmosphere on 7 January 1974.