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Yuzhnoye

Ukrainian state-owned rocket, propulsion, launch-system and spacecraft design organization

Yuzhnoye (KB Pivdenne) develops launch vehicles, rocket stages and engines, spacecraft and associated ground systems; it also provides engineering, testing and mission-integration support.

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Yuzhnoye customers & supported companies

Orbital Sciences Corporation— supplierTell me more

Yuzhnoye provided key hardware and the first stage for the Taurus II / Antares rocket developed by Orbital Sciences (now part of Northrop Grumman) under NASA contract for ISS cargo missions.

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Sea Launch— launch servicesTell me more

Yuzhnoye supplied the Zenit rocket as a major hardware provider and was previously a principal shareholder in the Sea Launch joint venture for commercial satellite launches.

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ISC Kosmotras— launch servicesTell me more

Yuzhnoye developed the Dnepr launch vehicle used by ISC Kosmotras for commercial and governmental satellite launches.

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Yuzhnoye program partners

Maritime Launch Services— launch services / customer · program partner2 connectionsTell me more

Yuzhnoye State Design Office agreed to supply the Cyclone-4M launch vehicle to Maritime Launch Services (MLS); MLS was described as having signed an agreement with Yuzhnoye making Yuzhnoye the supplier of Cyclone-4M vehicles for MLS launches (agreement reported as Yuzhnoye supplying Cyclone-4M to launch MLS customers).

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Yuzhnoye planned to use Maritime Launch Services' Canadian launch site in Nova Scotia for its new Cyclone-4M or similar rocket.

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Internalized capabilities

Launcher— acquired capabilityTell me more

Launcher licensed Soviet heritage RD-8 engine designs from Yuzhnoye.

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Government awards & missions

Alcântara Launch Center— intended-launch-site-integration-contextTell me more

Yuzhnoye developed Cyclone-4 for the planned commercial launch service from Brazil's Alcântara Launch Center under the Alcântara Cyclone Space project. · Cyclone-4 launch-site and commercial-service project

The Brazilian Space Agency records that the bilateral arrangement paired Alcântara infrastructure with Ukrainian development of Cyclone-4 for payloads from Brazil and other countries.

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State Space Agency of Ukraine— national-program-customer-and-mission-sponsorTell me more

The State Space Agency of Ukraine sponsored and operated the national Sich Earth-observation program for which Yuzhnoye developed the Sich-2-1 spacecraft. · Sich-2-1 (Sich-2-30) national Earth-observation mission

Yuzhnoye documents the satellite as a Ukrainian Earth-observation spacecraft it developed, and the Agency's national space-control organization reports on the satellite's launch and later reentry.

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National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences— earth-observation-spacecraft-developer-and-technical-implementation-partnerTell me more

Yuzhnoye designed and manufactured EgyptSat-1 for Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, which was responsible for the EgyptSat program and ground operations. · EgyptSat-1 Earth-observation mission

International operational databases identify NARSS as the program authority and Yuzhnoye as EgyptSat-1's technical implementer/manufacturer; the mission was an international NARSS-Yuzhnoye collaboration.

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ISC Kosmotras Launcher Maritime Launch Services Orbital Sciences Corporation Sea Launch

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