Pivdenne Design Office

Company type	State owned
Industry	Space industry Aerospace industry Defense industry
Predecessors	OKB-586
Founded	1951 (1951)
Headquarters	3, Kryvorizka Street, Dnipro48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°E / 48.437212; 34.950321 , Ukraine
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Ballistic missiles, rocket engines, electronics, spacecraft, orbital launch vehicles, satellites
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 [uk]
• 2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov [uk]^[1]

Products[edit]

Current[edit]

Ballistic missiles[edit]

• Hrim-2

Orbital launch vehicles[edit]

• Zenit rocket family
  • Zenit-2
  • Zenit-2M
  • Zenit-3F
  • Zenit-3SL
  • Zenit-3SLB
• 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
  • 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 lb_f))
  • Tsyklon-3 thruster (100 N (22 lb_f))
  • Okean-O thruster (30 N (6.7 lb_f))
  • Tsyklon-4 thruster (30 N (6.7 lb_f))

Planned[edit]

Orbital launch vehicles[edit]

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

Rocket engines[edit]

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

Satellites[edit]

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

Retired[edit]

• Tsyklon rocket family
  • Tsyklon 2
  • Tsyklon-3
• 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[edit]

• List of design bureaus in Ukraine

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Company home page Archived 2021-06-29 at the Wayback Machine