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 (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.
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

Products
Current
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
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))

Planned
Orbital launch vehicles
Tsyklon rocket family
Cyclone-4M – first launch planned for 2023
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
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

References
External links
Company home page Archived 2021-06-29 at the Wayback Machine