Company:KB Pivdenne

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Short description: Ukrainian rocket and satellite designer
Pivdenne Design Office
TypeState owned
IndustrySpace industry
Aerospace industry
Defense industry
Predecessors
  • OKB-586
Founded1951 (1951)
Headquarters3, Kryvorizka Street, ,
Ukraine
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsBallistic missiles, rocket engines, electronics, spacecraft, orbital launch vehicles, satellites
Websiteyuzhnoye.com

Pivdenne Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля ), 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.

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 (uk)
  • 2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov (uk)[1]

Products

Current

Jubilee Coin "50 Years of the State Design Office "Pivdenne"
Zenit-3SLБ

Ballistic missiles

Orbital launch vehicles

Rocket engines

  • Main engines
    • RD-843
    • RD-853
    • RD-859
    • RD-860 (uk)
    • RD-861K
    • RD-866
    • RD-868
  • Steering engines
    • RD-8
    • RD-855
    • RD-856
  • Thrusters
    • Tsyklon-3 thruster (30 N (6.7 lbf))
    • Tsyklon-3 thruster (100 N (22 lbf))
    • Okean-O thruster (30 N (6.7 lbf))
    • Tsyklon-4 thruster (30 N (6.7 lbf))

Planned

Orbital launch vehicles

  • Tsyklon rocket family
    • Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023[2]
  • Mayak rocket family

Rocket engines

  • Main engines
    • RD-801
    • RD-809
    • RD-809K
    • RD-810
    • DU-802

Satellites

  • Sich-2-1
  • Sich-2-M
  • Sich-3-O
  • Sich-3-P
  • YuzhSat
  • YuzhSat-1
  • Mikrosat
  • Ionosat

Retired

Kosmos
  • 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

  • List of design bureaus in Ukraine

References

External links