Orion
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Orion may refer to:
Common meanings
[edit]- Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
- Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
- Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first launched in 2022
Arts and media
[edit]Fictional entities
[edit]Characters and species
[edit]- Orion (character), a DC Comics character
- Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
- Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
- Orion, in the fighting game Brawlhalla
- Orions, a race in the Starfire board game and book series
- Orion, a character from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
- Captain Orion, in the Japanese series X-Bomber
Vessels
[edit]- Orion, a spaceplane in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Orion, a spaceship in Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
- "Orion"-class spaceship, on the television series Ascension
Literature
[edit]- Orion, an 1843 poem by Richard Henry Horne
- Orion, a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio
- Orion and King Arthur, a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova
- The Orion, an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Dead at Daybreak, a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as Orion
Music
[edit]Albums and long-form compositions
[edit]- Orion (Ryan Adams album)
- Orion (X Ambassadors album)
- Orion (Vivier), a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier
- Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
- Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
- Orion, an album by the band she
- Orion & Pleiades (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu
Songs
[edit]- "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
- "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
- "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album Master of Puppets
- "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 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu
Other uses in music
[edit]- Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
- Orion (singer) (Jimmy Ellis, 1945–1998), American singer
- Youth (musician) (Martin Glover, born 1960), British musician also known as Orion
Periodicals
[edit]- Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
- Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
- Orion (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844
- ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
- Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
- The Orion (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper
Other uses in arts and media
[edit]- Orion (film), a Canadian film
- Orion (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero
- Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
Buildings
[edit]- The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City
- 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
- Orion Mall, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall
Companies
[edit]Arts and media
[edit]- Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM
- Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
- Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
- Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky
Electrical power and electronics
[edit]- Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
- Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
- Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company
- Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company
Food and beverage
[edit]- Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan
- Orion (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
- Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company
Transportation and vehicles
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Transport carriers
[edit]- Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
- Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
- Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
- Orionair, a Spanish charter airline
- Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States
Vehicle manufacturers
[edit]- Orion Bus Industries, a Canadian bus manufacturer
- Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite
- Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer
Other companies
[edit]- Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
- Orion Corporation (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company
- Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates
- Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company
- Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company
People
[edit]- Orion (name)
- Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
- Orion, stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician
- Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer
Places
[edit]United States
[edit]- Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
- Orion, Illinois, a village
- Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
- Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
- Orion, Wisconsin, a town
- Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Orion Township, Michigan
- Orion Township, Minnesota
Elsewhere
[edit]- Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
- Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality
- Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune
- Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
- Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica
Science and technology
[edit]Astronomy
[edit]- Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
- Orion Arm, a galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation
- Orion Nebula, in the constellation
Biology
[edit]- Orion (beetle), a genus of beetles
- Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
- Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis
Computing
[edit]- ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada
- Orion (system-on-a-chip), used in network-attached storage
- Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
- HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
- Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server
- Orion quantum computing system, developed by D-Wave Systems
- Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
- Orion, IT admin software by SolarWinds
Other technologies
[edit]- Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK
- Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft
Sports
[edit]Football (soccer)
[edit]- A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club
- Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
- Orion F.C., a Scottish football club
Other sports
[edit]- Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team
- Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team
Transportation and military
[edit]Air
[edit]- Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants
- Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
- Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft
- Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
- Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone
Land
[edit]- 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
[edit]Military vessels
[edit]- 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)
- NRP Oríon (P1156), a Portuguese Navy Centauro-class fiscalization boat
Other vessels
[edit]- 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
Space
[edit]Rockets
[edit]- 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
Space vehicles
[edit]- Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket
- Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022
- Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft
- Orion, the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
- Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
- A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
- Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)
Other uses
[edit]- Orion (dog), a rescue dog
- Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US
- Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackrey
- Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists
See also
[edit]- Arion (disambiguation)
- EURion constellation, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency
- Exercise Orion (disambiguation)
- Orione (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli
- O'Ryan
- Orion 1 (disambiguation)
- Orion 2 (disambiguation)
- Orion the Hunter (disambiguation)
- Project Orion (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Orion
- All pages with titles containing Orion