The Pivdenne Design Office (), 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
  • 2010–2020

Products

Current

thumb|200px|Jubilee Coin "50 Years of the State Design Office "Pivdenne"

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

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

200px|thumb|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

References

  • Company home page