Yuzhnoye Design Office

Yuzhnoye State Design Office

Type	State owned
Industry	Space industry Aerospace industry Defense industry
Predecessors	OKB-586
Founded	1951 (1951)
Headquarters	3, Krivorozhskaya Street, DniproCoordinates: 48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°E / 48.437212; 34.950321, Ukraine
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Alexander Degtyarev (Acting as a General Director)
Products	Ballistic missiles, Rocket engines, Electronics, Spacecraft, Orbital launch vehicles, Satellites
Website	yuzhnoye.com

Yuzhnoye Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля; Russian: Констру́кторское бюро́ «Ю́жное»), located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) established by Mikhail Yangel. Yuzhnoye's OKB designation was OKB-586.

The company is in close co-operation with the Yuzhmash multi-product machine-building company also situated in Dnipro. Yuzhmash is the main manufacturer of the models developed by Yuzhnoye Design Office.

Directors

• 1954 - 1971 Mikhail Yangel
• 1971 - 1991 Vladimir Utkin
• 1991 - 2010 Stanislav Konyukhov
• 2010–present Aleksandr Degtyaryov

Products

Current

Jubilee Coin "50 Years of the State Design Office "Pivdenne"

Zenit-3SLБ

Ballistic missiles

• Grom

Orbital Launch Vehicles

• 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

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

Retired

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

See also

• List of design bureaus in Ukraine

External links

• (in English) Company home page