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Yuzhnoye Design Office

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Formed
  
1951

Founded
  
1951

Yuzhnoye Design Office wwwyuzhnoyecomimageskbulogoEnpng

Headquarters
  
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

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.

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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

    • Orbital Launch Vehicles

  • Zenit rocket family
  • Zenit-2
  • Zenit-2M
  • Zenit-3F
  • Zenit-3SL
  • Zenit-3SLB
  • 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

    • 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 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

  • Tsyklon (or Cyclone) rocket family
  • Tsyklon-4
  • Mayak rocket family

    • Rocket Engines

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

    • Retired

  • Tsyklon rocket family
  • Tsyklon 2
  • Tsyklon-3
  • 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
  • SS-24 "Scalpel" ICBM

    • References

    Yuzhnoye Design Office Wikipedia
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