KB Pivdenne
Ukrainian rocket and satellite designer
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The Pivdenne Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля, abbr. Державне КБП, romanized: Derzhavne konstruktorske biuro "Pivdenne" im. M. K. Yanhelia, abbr. Derzhavne KB Pivdenne, lit. 'State design bureau "Southern", named after M. K. Yangel'), located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), established by Mikhail Yangel. During the Soviet era, the bureau's OKB designation was OKB-586.
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| Company type | State owned |
|---|---|
| Industry | Aerospace, defense |
| Predecessors | OKB-586, SDO Yuzhnoye |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Founder | Mikhail Yangel |
| Headquarters | , Ukraine |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 5,500 (2017)  |
| Website | yuzhnoye.com |
The company is in close co-operation with the PA Pivdenmash multi-product machine-building company, also situated in Dnipro. Pivdenmash is the main manufacturer of the models developed by Pivdenne Design Office.
Directors
- 1954–1971 Mikhail Yangel
- 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
- 1991–2010 Stanislav Konyukhov
- 2010–2020 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
Planned
Orbital launch vehicles
- Tsyklon rocket family
- Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023[2]
- Mayak rocket family
Rocket engines
Satellites
- Sich-2-1
- Sich-2-M
- Sich-3-O
- Sich-3-P
- YuzhSat
- YuzhSat-1
- Mikrosat
- Ionosat
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'[3]
- RT-23 Molodets ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-24 'Scalpel'
