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Mikhail Yangel

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Soviet rocket designer who founded and led the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipropetrovsk, developing a rival line of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles to Sergei Korolev's bureau, including the Kosmos and later Tsyklon families. His R-36 missile design was also adapted into orbital launch vehicles used for decades of Soviet and post-Soviet satellite launches.

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Birth Date
1911-11-07 1
Birth Year
1911 1
Death Date
1971-10-25 1
Death Year
1971 1
Nationality
Soviet (Ukrainian) 1
Defining Contribution
Founder and chief designer of the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, a major rival design bureau to Korolev's, producing a long-running family of Soviet launch vehicles 1
Notable Work
Founder, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau; Kosmos and Tsyklon launch vehicle families 1
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