Altair (disambiguation)

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Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation.

It may also refer to:

Fiction

• Altair (Stargate) a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 television series.
• A system with numerous planets featured in the Star Trek series.
• Altair IV is a fictional planet in the film Forbidden Planet
• The Third Planet from Altair, a book in the Choose Your Own Adventure series
• Altair III, a planet in the play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
• A solar system in the space simulation computer game Descent: FreeSpace
• A planet in the space computer game Frontier:_Elite_II

Popular culture

• Altair is one of the four chariot horses driven to victory by Judah Ben-Hur in the Ben-Hur novel and films.
• Altair is the first town visited and the home of the rebels in the video game Final Fantasy 2.
• Altair is the central character in the computer game Assassin's Creed by Ubisoft.
• Altair is one of the main characters in the computer game Bomberman 64.
• Altair of Coloni is a minor character in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
• Lachette Altair is a character in Sakura Wars.

Geographical locations

• Altair, São Paulo, a city in Brazil
• Altair, Texas

Vessels

• Lockheed Altair, an aircraft
• USS Altair was the name of a number of ships of the United States Navy
• USNS Altair, a non-combat United States Naval ship
• The Altair Voyager, a Chevron oil tanker originally named for Condoleezza Rice
• A schooner designed by William Fife

Technology

• An amplifier manufactured by Krell Industries Inc.
• MITS Altair 8800, one of the first hobbyist/home/personal microcomputers; it was sold as electronic kits through Popular Electronics magazine. See also Altair BASIC, Altair bus
• X-248 Altair, a rocket engine manufactured by Allegany Ballistics Lab, used in the Delta rocket, Vanguard rocket and Scout rocket
• A long range radar antenna at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll
• Altair (satellite), a series of 5 geosynchronous Russian relay satellites
• A Soviet-made analog synthesizer. [1]

Others

• Altair Engineering (shortly Altair), distributed computing consulting and development company
• Altair Aviation / Altair Airlines, a defunct aviation company
• Operation ALTAIR is the Canadian Forces maritime contribution to the U.S.-led coalition anti-terrorist campaign known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
• A track from the album Tales from the Twilight World
• Altair Publishing Australia, specialising in science fiction and fantasy based fiction; and Altair, a magazine published by them
• Altair Publishing, a British academic publisher