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Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (uk: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°ECoordinates: 48°26′14″N 34°57′01″E / 48.437212°N 34.950321°EWebsite http://www.yuzhnoye.com/index.php
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.
Contents
Products
Rockets and missiles
- Zenit (rocket)
- Tsyklon (or Cyclone), also used by Brazil.
- 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
Categories:- Ukraine stubs
- Aeronautical company stubs
- Defence companies of Ukraine
- Ukrainian space program
- Science and technology in the Soviet Union
- Aerospace companies of the Soviet Union
- Defence companies of the Soviet Union
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