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Pivdenne Design Office ( uk, Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля , lit=State design bureau "Southern", named after M. K. Yangel, translit=Derzhavne konstruktorske biuro "Pivdenne" im. M. K. Yanhelia), located in
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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 Government-owned companies of Ukraine {{Aero-company-stub
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
, Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...
, is a designer of satellite
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s and rocket
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s, and formerly of Soviet
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intercontinental ballistic missile
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s (ICBMs), established by Mikhail Yangel
Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911 – 25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.
Biography ...
. During Soviet times the bureau's OKB designation was OKB-586.
The company is in close co-operation with the PA Pivdenmash
The State Factory «Production Union Pivdennyi Machine-Building Plant named after O.M. Makarov», PA Pivdenmash or formerly, PA Yuzhmash ( Ukrainian: Державне підприємство «Виробниче об'єднання Півд ...
multi-product machine-building company, also situated in Dnipro. Pivdenmash is the main manufacturer of the models developed by Pivdenne Design Office.
Directors
* 1954–1971Mikhail Yangel
Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911 – 25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.
Biography ...
* 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
Vladimir Fyodorovich Utkin (russian: Владимир Фёдорович Уткин; 1923 – 2000) was a Russian engineer and rocket scientist in the Soviet Union. He developed railcar- launched ICBM RT-23 Molodets and other Soviet rockets.
Ea ...
* 1991–2010
* 2010–2020
Products
Current
Ballistic missiles
* Hrim-2Orbital launch vehicles
* Zenit rocket family ** Zenit-2 ** Zenit-2M ** Zenit-3F ** Zenit-3SL ** Zenit-3SLB *Antares
Antares is the brightest star in the constellation of Scorpius. It has the Bayer designation α Scorpii, which is Latinised to Alpha Scorpii. Often referred to as "the heart of the scorpion", Antares is flanked by σ Scorpii and τ ...
first stage core, in cooperation with Orbital Sciences Corporation
Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other governmen ...
*Dnepr Dnepr may refer to:
*Dnieper, a river flowing through Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea
*Dnepr (motorcycle), a Ukraininan motocycle brand
*Dnepr (rocket), a 1999 space launch vehicle
*Dnepr radar, Soviet space surveillance and early warn ...
, converted R-36 ICBM
* R-36 ICBM, NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform man ...
SS-18 'Satan'
Rocket engines
*Main engines ** RD-843 ** RD-853 ** RD-859 ** **RD-861K
The RD-861 is a Soviet liquid propellant rocket engine burning UDMH and nitrogen tetroxide in a gas generator combustion cycle. It has a main combustion chamber, with four vernier nozzles fed by the gas generator output. It can be reignited a s ...
** RD-866
** RD-868
*Steering engines
**RD-8
The RD-8 (Russian: and GRAU Index: 11D513) is a Soviet / Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and RG-1 (a rocket grade kerosene) in an oxidizer rich staged combustion cycle. It has a four combustion chambers that provide th ...
** RD-855
** RD-856
*Thrusters
** Tsyklon-3 thruster ()
** Tsyklon-3 thruster ()
**Okean-O thruster ()
** Tsyklon-4 thruster ()
Planned
Orbital launch vehicles
*Tsyklon
The Tsyklon (Циклон, "Cyclone", also known as Tsiklon), GRAU index 11K67, was a Soviet-designed expendable launch system, primarily used to put Cosmos satellites into low Earth orbit. It is based on the R-36 intercontinental ballistic mi ...
rocket family
** Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023
*Mayak
The Mayak Production Association (russian: Производственное объединение «Маяк», , from 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing a reprocessing plant. The closest ...
rocket family
Rocket engines
*Main engines **RD-801
The RD-801 ( Russian: ) is a Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and Kerosene ( RG-1) in a staged combustion cycle. It has a single combustion chamber that provides thrust vector control by gimbaling of the nozzle in two axis ...
** RD-809
** RD-809K
**RD-810
The RD-810 (РД-810) is a Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and Kerosene ( RG-1) in a staged combustion cycle. It has a single combustion chamber that provides thrust vector control by gimbaling of the nozzle in two axis by ...
** DU-802
Satellites
* Sich-2-1 * Sich-2-M * Sich-3-O * Sich-3-P * YuzhSat * YuzhSat-1 * Mikrosat * IonosatRetired
*Tsyklon
The Tsyklon (Циклон, "Cyclone", also known as Tsiklon), GRAU index 11K67, was a Soviet-designed expendable launch system, primarily used to put Cosmos satellites into low Earth orbit. It is based on the R-36 intercontinental ballistic mi ...
rocket family
**Tsyklon 2
The Tsyklon-2 (Cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M (known as SL-11 by the United States DoD), GRAU index 11K69, was a Soviet, later Ukrainian, orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.
The rocket had 106 launc ...
** Tsyklon-3
* Kosmos-2I
* Kosmos-3M
*R-12 Dvina
The R-12 Dvina was a theatre ballistic missile developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Its GRAU designation was 8K63 (8K63U or 8K63У in Cyrillic for silo-launched version), and it was given the NATO reporting name of SS- ...
TBM, NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform man ...
SS-4 'Sandal'
* R-14 Chusovaya ICBM
An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than , primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Conventional, chemical, and biological weapons ...
, NATO reporting name SS-5 'Skean'
* R-16 ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-7 'Saddler' (see also Nedelin catastrophe
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range (of which Baikonur Cosmodrome is a part), during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM. As a prototype of the m ...
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* 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 UkraineReferences
External links
Company home page
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 Government-owned companies of Ukraine {{Aero-company-stub