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24-828: 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. This Ukrainian corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This aeronautical company–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . PA Pivdenmash The State Factory "Production Union Southern Machine-Building Plant named after O.M. Makarov " , officially abbreviated as Pivdenmash ( Ukrainian : Південмаш ) and previously as Yuzhmash ( Russian : Южмаш ) (meaning "Southern Mechanical Engineering"),

48-639: A low floor cabin. Leonid Kuchma , long-time chief manager (1986–1992) of the company, became the Prime Minister in 1992, and later President of Ukraine in 1994. In addition to production facilities in Dnipro, Pivdenne Production Association includes the Pavlohrad Mechanical Plant, which specializes in producing solid-fuel missiles. Pivdenmash's importance was further bolstered by its links to Ukraine's former President Leonid Kuchma, who worked at Pivdenmash between 1975 and 1992. He

72-472: A new first stage developed by Firefly Aerospace and the existing second stage from the Antares 230+. Pivdenmash will no longer be involved in the design or manufacturing of this vehicle. On November 21, 2024, the infrastructure was struck by a Russian non-nuclear IRBM ( Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ). Pivdenmash is known for its military and space industry products, and earned the city of Dnipro

96-460: A small number of modifications compared to the R-36M ICBM in service.The main difference was the payload adapter located in the space head module and modified flight-control unit. This baseline version could lift 3,600 kg into a 300 km low Earth orbit at an inclination of 50.6°, or 2,300 kg to a 300 km Sun-synchronous orbit at an inclination of 98.0°. On a typical mission

120-618: A year of strained relations including the Euromaidan and the Russo-Ukrainian war , Russia announced that it would sever its "joint program with Ukraine to launch Dnepr rockets and [was] no longer interested in buying Ukrainian Zenit boosters , deepening problems for [Ukraine's] space program and its struggling Yuzhmash factory." However ISC Kosmotras reported that they would continue to fulfill their obligations for three Dnepr launches in 2015, of which only one took place. By

144-611: Is a Ukrainian state-owned aerospace manufacturer. Prior to 1991, it was a Soviet state-owned factory. Pivdenmash produces spacecraft , launch vehicles (rockets), liquid-propellant rockets , landing gears , castings , forgings , tractors, tools, and industrial products. The company is headquartered in Dnipro , and reports to the State Space Agency of Ukraine . It works with international aerospace partners in 23 countries. Pivdenmash operated initially as "plant 586" in

168-669: The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine later cancelled this as an "absurd" project. Even so, by 2021, the group was reported to have partnerships with 23 countries, including Saudi Arabia. In July 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Pivdenmash facility in Dnipro was struck by a Russian long-range cruise missile attack. The plant was targeted again during the October–November 2022 nationwide missile strikes on Ukraine on 17 November 2022. On August 1, 2023,

192-500: The NPO Energomash RD-181 engine, which has since performed flawlessly. In December 2017, after a two-year hiatus, the final Zenit launch vehicle was launched by Roscosmos from Baikonur Cosmodrome to deliver AngoSat 1 . In February–March 2018, Pivdenmash announced plans to develop a testing platform for Hyperloop technology developed by Elon Musk and was scheduled for completion in 2019 in Dnipro , though

216-761: The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces and stored for commercial use. A group of a total of 150 ICBMs were allowed under certain geopolitical disarmament protocols to be converted for use, and can be launched through 2020. The Dnepr was launched from the Russian-controlled Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and the Dombarovsky launch base, near Yasny, in the Orenburg region of Russia. In February 2015, following

240-755: The SS-18 Satan by NATO – designed in the 1970s by the Yuzhnoe Design Bureau in Dnepropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR . among the outstanding authors of the project there are people like Boris Gubanov , Sergey Sopov . The Dnepr control system was developed and produced by the JSC "Khartron" , Kharkiv . The Dnepr was a three-stage rocket using storable hypergolic liquid propellants. The launch vehicles used for satellite launches have been withdrawn from ballistic missile service with

264-604: The Soviet Union . In 1954, Soviet aviation engineer Mikhail Yangel established the autonomous design bureau designated OKB-586 , from the former chief designer's division of plant 586. Yangel had previously headed OKB-1 (today RKK Energiya ) and was primarily a supporter of storable propellant technology – unlike Sergei Korolev at OKB-1, who was a supporter of missiles using cryogenic propellants. To pursue development of ballistic missiles using storable liquid propellants, Mikhail Yangel had received authorization to convert

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288-581: The Dnepr deployed a larger main payload and a secondary payload of Miniaturized satellites and CubeSats . Before the Dnepr entered commercial service it was in service with the Strategic Rocket Forces which launched the ICBM version over 160 times with a reliability of 97%. The rocket had been used several times for commercial purposes with a single failure. The Dnepr has at two points held

312-440: The chief designer's division of the plant into an autonomous design bureau. Following this, OKB-586 was designated Southern Design Bureau (better known as KB Pivdenne ) and plant 586 was renamed Southern Machine-Building Plant in 1966, with a focus on the design and production of ballistic missiles. The plant was later renamed Southern Machine-Building Production Union, or Yuzhmash (Ukraine). Missiles produced at Pivdenmash included

336-576: The company and the Ukrainian government denied the allegation. In October 2016, An Antares 230 launch vehicle using a Pivdenmash core launched the Cygnus OA-5 mission from Wallops Island to deliver supplies to the ISS . This was Antares' return-to-flight following the failed Cygnus Orb-3 mission nearly two years earlier, resulting from a faulty AJ-26 engine. The vehicle was modified to utilize

360-462: The end of 2016, no further launch had materialized and the remaining customers had switched to alternative launch providers. Business magnate Elon Musk tried to purchase refurbished Dnepr rockets for a low price from Russia but returned empty-handed after failing to find any that were affordable. This led him to the creation of a successful private rocket launch company now known as SpaceX . The Dnepr launch vehicle had only

384-477: The failed launch on July 26, 2006, concluded that the failure was caused by a malfunctioning of the pumping hydraulic drive of combustion chamber #4. The control malfunctioning brought about the disturbances, which led to the roll instability, excessive dispersions of the yaw and pitch angles. Thrust termination occurred at 74 seconds after lift-off. The crash site was located 150 km from the launch pad in an unpopulated area of Kazakhstan. Toxic propellants polluted

408-687: The final Antares 230+ lifted off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia with Cygnus NG-19 to resupply the International Space Station . Owing to engine unavailability and the inability of Pivdenmash to produce further first stages due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict , future Cygnus spacecraft will initially be launched aboard SpaceX 's Falcon 9 launcher before transitioning to the Antares 330 . This vehicle uses

432-750: The first nuclear armed Soviet rocket R-5M (SS-3 'Shyster'), the R-12 Dvina (SS-4 'Sandal'), the R-14 Chusovaya (SS-5 'Skean'), the first widely deployed Soviet ICBM R-16 (SS-7 'Saddler'), the R-36 (SS-9 'Scarp'), the MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 'Spanker'), and the R-36M (SS-18 'Satan'). During the Soviet era, the plant was capable of producing of up to 120 ICBMs a year. In the late 1980s, Pivdenmash

456-417: The nickname of "Rocket City". The company had been the key missile producer for Soviet ICBM and space exploration programs. Historic and Pivdenmash launch systems included: Created in 1944 as Dnipropetrovsk Tractor Factory, it was later expanded. Dnepr (rocket) The Dnepr rocket ( Russian : Днепр , romanized :  Dnepr ; Ukrainian : Дніпро , romanized :  Dnipró )

480-569: The only hope for the company was increased international business which seemed unlikely in the time frame available. Bankruptcy seemed certain as of February 2015, but was averted. On 14 August 2017, the Institute of International Strategic Studies issued a report presenting evidence that "North Korea has acquired a high-performance liquid-propellant engine from illicit networks in Russia and Ukraine", likely produced by Pivdenmash facilities. Both

504-599: The record for the most satellites orbited in a single launch; the April 2007 launch with 14 payloads held the record until 20 November 2013, when an American Minotaur I placed 29 satellites and two experiment packages into orbit. The next day a Dnepr re-took the record, placing 32 satellites and an experiment package bolted to the upper stage into low Earth orbit. This record was broken by an Antares launch in January 2014 which carried 34 spacecraft. The committee investigating

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528-608: Was a space launch vehicle named after the Dnieper River . It was a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit, operated by launch service provider ISC Kosmotras . The first launch, on April 21, 1999, successfully placed UoSAT-12 , a 350 kg demonstration mini-satellite, into a 650 km circular Low Earth orbit . The Dnepr was based on the R-36MUTTH Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) – called

552-579: Was selected to be the main production facility of the RT-2PM2 Topol-M ICBM (SS-27 "Sickle B"). After the beginning of perestroika , demand for military production declined significantly, and the Pivdenmash product line was expanded to include non-military uses such as civilian machinery . One line of products added after 1992 are trolleybuses . Models include the articulated YuMZ T1 (1992–2008), its non-articulated brother YuMZ T2 (1993–2008) and more modern YuMZ E-186 (2005–2006) which features

576-417: Was the plant's general manager from 1986 to 1991. In February 2015, following a year of strained relations, Russia announced that it would sever its "joint program with Ukraine to launch Dnepr rockets and [was] no longer interested in buying Ukrainian Zenit boosters , deepening problems for [Ukraine's] space program and its struggling Pivdenmash factory". With the loss of Russian business some thought that

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