Pivdenmash

Pivdenmash (also transliterated Yuzhmash), formally the Pivdenny Machine-Building Plant, is Ukraine's main rocket and satellite manufacturing facility, based in Dnipro and established on 21 July 1944. It is a state-owned enterprise reporting to the State Space Agency of Ukraine and, as of 2017, employed roughly 7,000 workers, well down from far larger Soviet-era staffing levels; its structure includes the Pavlohrad Mechanical Plant and several production complexes.

Pivdenmash manufactures the launch vehicles and spacecraft designed by its long-standing partner, the Pivdenne (Yuzhnoye) Design Bureau, including the Zenit, Dnepr and Tsyklon launch-vehicle families and the first-stage core of Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket. During the Soviet period it built a series of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including the R-5M, R-16, R-36 and R-36M, and it continues some military production alongside its space work. It also has a long history of manufacturing civilian goods, including tractors, trolleybuses and other industrial equipment, a diversification dating to the Soviet era.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Pivdenmash's facilities have been struck by missiles on multiple occasions, including in July and November 2022, and by August 2023 the plant had ceased producing further Antares first stages because it could no longer obtain the Russian-made engines the design required and could not otherwise resume production amid the war. The plant remains a nominally active state enterprise, though its output has been severely curtailed by the conflict.