KB Pivdenne

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Pivdenne Design Office

Company type	State owned
Industry	Aerospace, defense
Predecessors	OKB-586, SDO Yuzhnoye
Founded	1951; 75 years ago (1951)
Founder	Mikhail Yangel
Headquarters	Dnipro48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°E / 48.437212; 34.950321 , Ukraine
Area served	Worldwide
Number of employees	5,500 (2017)
Website	yuzhnoye.com

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.

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.

• 1954–1971 Mikhail Yangel
• 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
• 1991–2010 Stanislav Konyukhov [uk]
• 2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov [uk][1]

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

• Hrim-2

• 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'

• 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))

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

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

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

Kosmos

• 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'[3]
• RT-23 Molodets ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-24 'Scalpel'

• List of design bureaus in Ukraine

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