KB Pivdenne

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.

Pivdenne Design Office
Company typeState owned
IndustrySpace industry
Aerospace industry
Defense industry
Predecessors
  • OKB-586
Founded1951 (1951)
Headquarters3, Kryvorizka Street,
Dnipro48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E
,
Ukraine
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsBallistic missiles, rocket engines, electronics, spacecraft, orbital launch vehicles, satellites
Number of employees
5,500 (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
Websiteyuzhnoye.com

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
  • 2010–2020 Oleksandr Dehtiariov[1]

Products

Current

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

Ballistic missiles

  • Hrim-2

Orbital launch vehicles

Rocket engines

  • Main engines
    • RD-843
    • RD-853
    • RD-859
    • RD-860
    • 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))

Orbital launch vehicles

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

See also

  • List of design bureaus in Ukraine

References


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