Yuzhnoye Design Office
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Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля | |
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Formed | 1951 |
Headquarters | Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Website | http://www.yuzhnoye.com/en/home/ |
Yuzhnoye Design Office (Ukrainian: Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля ; Russian: Констру́кторское бюро́ «Ю́жное»), located in Dnipropetrovsk, 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 Dnipropetrovsk. 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
- Zenit rocket family
- Antares (rocket) first stage core, in cooperation with Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Dnepr converted R-36 ICBM
- R-36 (missile) NATO reporting name (SS-18 'Satan') ICBM
- SS-24 "Scalpel" ICBM
Planned
Retired
- Tsyklon rocket family
- Kosmos-2I
- Kosmos-3M
- R-14 Chusovaya NATO reporting name;(SS-5 'Skean') ICBM
- R-16 (missile) NATO reporting name;(SS-7 'Saddler') ICBM (see also Nedelin catastrophe)
- R-26 (missile) NATO reporting name;(SS-8 'Sasin') ICBM
- R-36 (missile) NATO reporting name;(SS-9 'Scarp') ICBM
- RT-20 (missile) NATO reporting name;(SS-15 'Scrooge') ICBM (planned but never deployed)
- MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 'Spanker') ICBM
See also
External links
- (English) Company home page
- (English) Yuzhnoye Design Office
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- Defence companies of Ukraine
- Space program of Ukraine
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
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- Rocket engine manufacturers
- Economy of Dnipropetrovsk
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