Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
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Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (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 Bureau.
[edit] Products
- Zenit/Zenit 3SL
- Tsyklon (or Cyclone), also used by Brazil.
- Tsyklon-3
- SS-5 'Skean'
- SS-7 'Saddler' (see also Nedelin catastrophe)
- SS-8 'Sasin'
- SS-9 'Scarp'
- SS-15 'Scrooge'
- SS-17 'Spanker'
- SS-18 'Satan'/Dnepr
- SS-24 "Scalpel
[edit] External links
- (English) Company home page
- (English) fas.org: Yuzhnoye Design Bureau