KB Pivdenne
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| Company type | State owned |
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| Industry | Space industry Aerospace industry Defense industry |
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| Founded | 1951 |
| Headquarters | 3, Kryvorizka Street, , Ukraine |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Ballistic missiles, Rocket engines, Electronics, Spacecraft, Orbital launch vehicles, Satellites |
Number of employees | 5,500 (2017)  |
| Website | yuzhnoye.com |
Yuzhnoye Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля, romanized: Derzhavne konstruktorske biuro "Pivdenne" im. M. K. Ianhelia, lit. 'State design bureau "Southern", named after M. K. Yangel'; Russian: Констру́кторское бюро́ «Ю́жное»), located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) established by Mikhail Yangel. Yuzhnoye's OKB designation was OKB-586.
The company is in close co-operation with the Yuzhmash multi-product machine-building company also situated in Dnipro. Yuzhmash is the main manufacturer of the models developed by Yuzhnoye Design Office.
Directors
- 1954–1971 Mikhail Yangel
- 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
- 1991–2010 Stanislav Konyukhov
- 2010–present Oleksandr Dehtiariov[1]
Products
Current
Ballistic missiles
Orbital launch vehicles
- Zenit rocket family
- Antares first stage core, in cooperation with Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Dnepr, converted R-36 ICBM
- R-36 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-18 'Satan'
Rocket engines
- Main engines
- Steering engines
- Thrusters
Planned
Orbital launch vehicles
- Tsyklon rocket family
- Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023[2]
- Mayak rocket family
Rocket engines
Satellites
Retired
- Tsyklon rocket family
- Kosmos-2I
- Kosmos-3M
- R-12 Dvina TBM, NATO reporting name SS-4 'Sandal'
- R-14 Chusovaya ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-5 'Skean'
- R-16 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-7 'Saddler' (see also Nedelin catastrophe)
- R-26 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-8 'Sasin'
- R-36 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-9 'Scarp'
- RT-20 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-15 'Scrooge' (planned but never deployed)
- MR-UR-100 Sotka ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-17 'Spanker'
- RT-23 Molodets ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-24 'Scalpel'
See also
References
- ^ Zelenskyy Initiates Assignment Of Title Of Hero Of Ukraine To Director General Of Yuzhnoye Design Bureau Dehtiariov Who Died Of Coronavirus, Ukrainian News Agency (26 November 2020)
(in Ukrainian) Zelensky awarded the title of Hero to the CEO of "Southern", who died of coronavirus, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2020) - ^ Willick, Frances (12 May 2021). "Canso spaceport secures $10.5M, aims for first launch next year". CBC News. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
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