KB Pivdenne

Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox company The Pivdenne Design Office (Template:Langx), 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

• 1954–1971 Mikhail Yangel
• 1971–1991 Vladimir Utkin
• 1991–2010 Template:Ill
• 2010–2020 Template:Ill<ref>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)
  Template:In lang Zelensky awarded the title of Hero to the CEO of "Southern", who died of coronavirus, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2020)</ref>

Products

Current

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

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Zenit-3SLБ

Ballistic missiles

• Hrim-2

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
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  • RD-861K
  • RD-866
  • RD-868
• Steering engines
  • RD-8
  • RD-855
  • RD-856
• Thrusters
  • Tsyklon-3 thruster (Template:Convert)
  • Tsyklon-3 thruster (Template:Convert)
  • Okean-O thruster (Template:Convert)
  • Tsyklon-4 thruster (Template:Convert)

Planned

Orbital launch vehicles

• Tsyklon rocket family
  • Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Mayak rocket family

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

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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'<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• RT-23 Molodets ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-24 'Scalpel'

See also

• List of design bureaus in Ukraine

External links

• Company home page Template:Webarchive

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