Orion

Orion may refer to:

• Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
• Orion (constellation), a prominent region of the night sky named after the hunter

Astronomy

• Orion Nebula, a nebula in the Orion Constellation
• Orion Arm, a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy
• Project Orion, a 1980 NASA astrometry study of a system of methods of detecting extrasolar planets using astronomical interferometry

Astronautics

• Orion (spacecraft), NASA's planned space shuttle replacement
• Orion, a series of reconnaissance satellites
• A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
  • Orion 1, later known as Telstar 11
  • Orion 2, later known as Telstar 12
  • Orion 3, which was lost at launch
• Orion, the Apollo Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
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• Orion (rocket), a US sounding rocket
• Orion-1, an Argentine sounding rocket
• Orion, a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a project of nuclear pulse propulsion utilizing atomic bomb explosions
• Project Orion, a project to build a laser broom for the International Space Station

Places

United States

• 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

People

• Orion (name)
• Orion of Thebes (died ca. 460), grammarian scholar in Ancient Egypt
• 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

Computing

• Orion (system-on-a-chip)
• ORION (Research and Education network)
• Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
• HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
• Orion Application Server
• Orion (music software), a music production software program
• Orion quantum computing system
• Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse
• Orion, a characters in Maxis' role playing game Darkspore

Mass media

Film and television

• Orion (film), an upcoming film
• Orion Pictures, an American film production company
• Orion, a spaceplane in 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Orion (Star Trek), an alien species
• Orion, a starship in Stargate
• Orion, codename of television character Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
• Raumpatrouille Orion (Space Patrol Orion in English), the first German science fiction television series
• Orion, a character from Power Rangers Super Megaforce

Music

• Orion Records, a classical record label active ca. 1968-1988
• Orion (album), by Ryan Adams
• Orion, an album by the musical band she
• "Orion", a work composed by Philip Glass in 2004
• Orion (symphonic piece), 1979 symphonic piece for large orchestra by Claude Vivier
• Orion & Pleiades (symphonic work), 1984 piece for cello and orchestra by Toru Takemitsu
• "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
• "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Orion", a song by 12012
• "Orion", a song by Dead Can Dance on the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998)
• "Orion", a song by Jethro Tull on the album Stormwatch
• "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental by Metallica on the album Master of Puppets

Publications and publishing

• Orion Publishing Group
• 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
• The Orion, the student newspaper of California State University, Chico
• ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
• Orions, a race in the Starfire game and book series
• Orion Fowl, a character in Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

Sports

• Orion F.C., a Scottish 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

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

• USS Orion, the name of several U.S. Navy vessels
• HMS Orion, the name of several Royal Navy vessels
• Template:Sclass-, 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
• Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
• MV Orion, a leisure travel cruise vessel.
• RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company

Air

• Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
• P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft introduced in 1962
  • EP-3A/B Orion, a reconnaissance version of the aircraft

Businesses

• 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 Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
• Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

Drink

• Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
• Orion, flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackray

Other

• Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies
• Orion (genus), a genus of beetles

See also

• Orione (opera), a 1653 opera by Francesco Cavalli
• Orion the Hunter (disambiguation)