Yuzhnoye Design Bureau

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
Державне конструкторське бюро «Південне» ім. М. К. Янгеля
Agency overview
Formed	1951
Headquarters	Dnipropetrovsk,  Ukraine 48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°E / 48.437212; 34.950321Coordinates: 48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°E / 48.437212; 34.950321
Website	http://www.yuzhnoye.com/index.php?lang=en

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.

Products

Current

• 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
• SS-24 "Scalpel

Planned

• Tsyklon (or Cyclone) rocket family
  • Tsyklon-4 also used by Brazil

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

External links

• (English) Company home page
• (English) fas.org: Yuzhnoye Design Bureau