Yuzhnoye Design Bureau

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

Rockets and missiles

• Zenit (rocket)
• Tsyklon (or Cyclone), also used by Brazil.
  • Tsyklon 2
  • Tsyklon-3
  • Tsyklon-4
• Kosmos-3M
• 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

Products under development

• Taurus II first stage core, in cooperation with Orbital Sciences Corporation

External links

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

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