Orion

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Orion may refer to:

Most common meanings

• Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
• Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter

Places

United States

• Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Orion, California, a former settlement
• Orion, Illinois, a village
  • Orion High School
• Orion, Wisconsin, a town
• Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
• Orion Township, Michigan
• Orion Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

• Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
• Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
• Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
• Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

Buildings

• Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan
• Orion Building, a residential building in Birmingham, England.
• Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive
• Orion Theatre, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden

Computing

• Orion (system-on-a-chip)
• ORION (research and education network) the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
• Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
• HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
• Orion Application Server
• Orion quantum computing system
• Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Orion Pictures, an American film production company
• Orion (film), a Canadian film
• the spaceship in Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
• Orion, a spaceplane in 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Orion, a starship in Stargate
• "Orion"-class spaceship, the Project Ascension starship class from the television series Ascension
• Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
• Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
• Orion, from Power Rangers Super Megaforce

Music

• Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, American singer
• Orion Records (1960s-'80s), classical record label
• Orion (album), by Ryan Adams
• Orion, an album by she (band)
• "Orion", a 2004 Philip Glass composition
• Orion (symphonic piece) (1979) by Claude Vivier
• Orion & Pleiades (symphonic work) (1984), by Toru Takemitsu
• "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
• "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Orion", a song by 12012
• "Orion", a song in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) by Dead Can Dance
• "Orion", a song on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
• "Orion", a song on the Metallica album Master of Puppets

Literature

• The Orion (book), a 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Orion (comics), a DC Comics character
• Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
• Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
• Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
• "Orion", a poem by Richard Henry Horne
• Orion, a novel series by Ben Bova
• Orions, a race in the Starfire board game and book series
• Orion Fowl, a character in the novel Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

Theatre

• Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste

Sports

• Orion F.C., a Scottish football club
• Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
• Asociación Deportiva Orión, a Panamanian football club
• Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team
• Goyang Orions, a South Korean basketball team

In the military

• USS Orion, several U.S. Navy vessels
• HMS Orion, several Royal Navy vessels
• Orion-class battleship, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
• HMAS Orion, an Oberon-class of the Royal Australian Navy
• HSwMS Orion (A201), a Swedish ELINT vessel
• French ship Orion (1787), a Téméraire-class of the French Navy
• German auxiliary cruiser Orion, World War II merchant raider
• BAE Orion (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally USS Mulberry (AN-27)
• Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft introduced in 1962
• EP-3A/B Orion, a reconnaissance version of the aircraft

Transportation

Land

• Ford Orion, a car
• Orion, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive
• Orion, a GWR 3300 Class steam locomotive
• Mitsubishi Orion engine, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors

Sea

• Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
• MV Orion, a cruise ship
• RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company
• SS Orion, a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship
• Orion 50, an American sailboat design
• Orion (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver

Air

• Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
• Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance unmanned aircraft
• Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley

Space

• Orion (spacecraft), NASA's planned crew vehicle
• Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
• Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
• Orión (rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
• Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

Satellites

• Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
• A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat

Businesses

• Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
• Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States
• Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
• Orion Breweries, the fifth largest beer brewery in Japan
• Orion Confectionery, a South Korean confectionery company
• Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company
• Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
• Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
• Orion Energy Systems, Inc., an American power technology company
• Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
• Orion International, a Canadian bus manufacturer
• Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company
• Orion Optics, a British telescope manufacturer
• Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
• Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

People

• Orion (name)
• stage name of American rockabilly singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998)
• industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
• stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician

Other uses

• Orion (spacecraft instrument), two research instruments on manned 1970s Soviet spacecraft
• Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
• Orion, flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackray
• Orion (genus), a genus of beetles
• Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
• The Orion, the student newspaper of California State University, Chico
• ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
• Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis

See also

• EURion constellation, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency
• Orione (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli
• Orion the Hunter (disambiguation)
• Project Orion (disambiguation)
• Orion Nebula, in the constellation
• Orion Arm, galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
• Orion 1 (disambiguation)
• Orion 2 (disambiguation)
• Orion 3, off-course communication satellite (1999)