Orion

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Contents 1 Astronomy and space 2 People 3 Geography 4 Companies 5 Computing 6 Fiction 7 Sport 8 Media 9 Arts 10 Transportation 10.1 Aircraft 10.2 Railway 10.3 Ships 10.4 Vehicles 11 Other 12 References

Orion was a hunter in Greek mythology. His name has been used for numerous other things.

[edit] Astronomy and space

• Orion (constellation), a constellation
• Orion Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy
• Orion Nebula, a nebula also known as M42
• Orion (US rocket), an American sounding rocket
• Orion 1 and 2 (space observatories), Soviet space observatories onboard space station Salyut 1 (1971) and Soyuz 13 (1973), respectively
• Orion (Argentine rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
• Orion (spacecraft), a U.S. space capsule in development by Lockheed Martin, previously called the Crew Exploration Vehicle
• Orion, the lunar module of the Apollo 16 manned mission to the moon
• Project Orion, a proposed nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft

[edit] People

• Orion of Thebes, a 5th century grammarian.

[edit] Geography

• Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France
• Orion, Bataan, a municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines
• Orion, Illinois, a rural town in Henry County, Illinois, United States

[edit] Companies

• Orion (company), supplier of consumer electronics and white goods from Hungary
• Orion Breweries, the 5th largest beer brewery in Japan
• Orion Bus Industries, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, based in Oriskany, [New York]] and Mississauga, Ontario
• Orion Confectionery, a company in Seoul, Korea
• Orion Corporation, a pharmaceutics company in Espoo, Finland
• Orion Electric, an electronics manufacturer based in Fukui, Japan
• Orion Expedition Cruises, a cruise line based in Australia
• Orion Optics, a telescope manufacturer in the UK
• Orion Pictures, a defunct movie company
• Orion Publishing Group, owned by Hachette Livre
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American retailer of telescopes and astronomy equipment
• Orion, a Greek television station
• Orion, a Czech chocolate brand of Nestlé
• Orion, a car audio manufacturer based in the USA

[edit] Computing

• HLH Orion, a minicomputer produced by High Level Hardware in the UK
• Master of Orion, a computer game
• ORION (network), the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network in Canada
• Orion Application Server, a J2EE server
• Orion Platinum, a music production software
• Orion EDMS, Enterprise Document Management System from MagSoft
• Orion Multisystems, a small company which is making 96-processor computers.
• Orion quantum computing system, a hardware accelerator built around an adiabatic quantum computer processor.[1]
• Orion ERP Solution, from 3i Infotech.[2]

[edit] Fiction

• Orion (comics), a comic book character, the son of Darkseid, in the DC Comics universe
• Orion (manga), the manga by Masamune Shirow
• Orion (Star Trek), an extraterrestrial race in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Orion Pirates, the same race, but as portrayed in the alternate Star Fleet Universe.
• Orion III - the 216 ft Pan Am Space Clipper shuttle in 2001: A Space Odyssey
• ORION Foundation, a fictional intelligence organization from the TSR, Inc. role-playing game Top Secret/S.I..
• Orion's Arm, a collaborative online science-fiction universe
• Orion, extraterrestrial race of humanoid cats from David Weber and Steve White's novel The Shiva Option
• Orion, the name of a white and orange cat in the first Men in Black film
• Raumpatrouille Orion, a German science fiction series
• Orion, a fictional spaceship in the Stargate universe
• Orion, a novel (and several sequels) by Ben Bova with elements of science fiction, history, and mythology
• Orion Pax, a character in the Transformers universe

[edit] Sport

• Orion FC, a defunct Scottish football club who merged with another two other teams to form the SPL team Aberdeen FC

[edit] Media

• Orion magazine, a magazine devoted to nature and the environment
• Orion (newspaper), the student newspaper of California State University, Chico
• Chris Orion, American radio personality
• Orion Swartzlander, a gay rights advocate who writes and submits to the Plunger Press, currently fighting for the right to marry his partner.

[edit] Arts

• Orion, a song on the Stormwatch album by Jethro Tull
• Orion (Metallica song), an instrumental piece from the Master of Puppets album by Metallica
• Orion (singer), stage name of American singer Jimmy Ellis, who dressed and sang in the manner of Elvis Presley following Presley's death
• stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski
• Alexandre Orion, Brazilian photographer and graffiti artist
• Orion, a song by Dead Can Dance from the album Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) (2001).
• Orion, a 10-movement work by composer Philip Glass, commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad 2004 and was played in Athens, Greece just before the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[1]
• Krewe of Orion, a Baton Rouge Mardi Gras krewe

[edit] Transportation

[edit] Aircraft

• Lockheed Model 9 Orion, Lockheed's Model 9.
• P-3 Orion, an anti-submarine warfare and surveillance aircraft produced by Lockheed.

[edit] Railway

• Orion, a South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST steam locomotive

[edit] Ships

• Orion (HSK-1), German auxiliary cruiser
• HMS Orion, the name of several Royal Navy vessels
• MV Orion - A luxury expedition ship operated by Orion Expedition Cruises, Australia

[edit] Vehicles

• Ford Orion, an automobile model of the Ford Motor Company

[edit] Other

• A proposed laser system at AWE, Aldermaston
• Orion Building, a building in Birmingham.
• Orion Longsword, the world's premiere Long Sword dance team based in Boston, MA.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.philipglass.com/html/compositions/orion.html