KB Pivdenne
The Pivdenne Design Office, located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, 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
Ballistic missiles
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
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- *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
Satellites
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'
- 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'
- MR-UR-100 Sotka ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-17 'Spanker'
- RT-23 Molodets ICBM, NATO reporting name SS-24 'Scalpel'