KB Pivdenne
Appearance
Company type | State owned |
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Industry | Space industry Aerospace industry Defense industry |
Predecessors |
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Founded | 1951 |
Headquarters | 3, Kryvorizka Street, , Ukraine |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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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
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 - launches planned for 2020 year
- 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
External links
- (in English) Company home page
Categories:
- Aerospace companies of Ukraine
- Defence companies of Ukraine
- State Space Agency of Ukraine
- Ukrainian space institutions
- Companies based in Dnipro
- Aerospace companies of the Soviet Union
- Defence companies of the Soviet Union
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
- Antares (rocket family)
- Design companies established in 1951
- 1951 establishments in the Soviet Union
- 1951 establishments in Ukraine
- Design bureaus
- Ukrainian company stubs
- Aeronautical company stubs