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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Defining ContributionFounder 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 WorkFounder, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau; Kosmos and Tsyklon launch vehicle families 1 Connections
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Mikhail Yangel (Wikipedia)
In Group: Soviet and Russian Spacecraft Designers, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Soviet and Russian Spacecraft Designers, Lead sentence
Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (Russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911-25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading designer in the missile program of the former Soviet Union.
Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
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