KB Pivdenne
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| Company type | State owned |
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| Industry | Aerospace, defense |
| Predecessors | OKB-586 |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Founder | Mikhail Yangel |
| Headquarters | , Ukraine |
Area served | Worldwide |
Number of employees | 5,500 (2017)  |
| Website | yuzhnoye.com |
Pivdenne Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля, romanized: Derzhavne konstruktorske biuro "Pivdenne" im. M. K. Yanhelia, 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.
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
[edit]- 1954–1971 Mikhail Yangel
- 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
- 1991–2010 Stanislav Konyukhov
- 2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov[1]
Products
[edit]Current
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Ballistic missiles
[edit]Orbital launch vehicles
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Main engines
- Steering engines
- Thrusters
Planned
[edit]Orbital launch vehicles
[edit]- Tsyklon rocket family
- Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023[2]
- Mayak rocket family
Rocket engines
[edit]Satellites
[edit]Retired
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- 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'
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Zelenskyy Initiates Assignment Of Title Of Hero Of Ukraine To Director General Of Pivdenne 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.
- ^ "КБ Южное сейчас практически остановлено, - нардеп Кисилевский". 2021-06-29. Archived from the original on 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2024-05-15.
External links
[edit]- Company home page Archived 2021-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
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