Orion

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Orion may refer to:

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Common meanings

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

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Arts and media

Fictional entities

Characters and species

• Orion (comics), a DC Comics character
• Orion (Power Rangers), from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
• Orion (Star Trek), a sentient alien species
• Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show Chuck
• Orions, a race in the Starfire board game and book series
• Orion Fowl, a character in the novel Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

Vessels

• Orion, a spaceplane in 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Orion, a starship in Stargate
• 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

• Orion (novel), a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio
• The Orion (book), an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• "Orion", a poem by Richard Henry Horne
• Orion, a novel series by Ben Bova

Music

Songs

• "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", an instrumental piece on the Metallica album Master of Puppets
• "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu

Albums and long compositions

• Orion (album), by Ryan Adams
• Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
• Orion (symphonic piece) (1979) by Claude Vivier
• Orion & Pleiades (symphonic work) (1984), by Toru Takemitsu
• Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
• Orion, an album by the band she

Other uses in music

• Orion Records (1960s-'80s), a classical record label
• Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, American singer

Periodicals

• Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
• Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
• ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
• The Orion (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper
• Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi

Other uses in arts and media

• Orion (film), a Canadian film
• Miss Riboet's Orion (1925-42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies

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Buildings

• 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

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Companies

Arts and media

• Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher
• Orion Pictures, an American film production company

Electrical power and electronics

• 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

• Orion Breweries, the fifth largest beer brewery in Japan
• Orion Confectionery, a South Korean confectionery company

Optics

• Orion Optics, a British telescope manufacturer
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company

Transportation and vehicles

• 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 Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
• Orion International, a Canadian bus manufacturer
• Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

• Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company

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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

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Places

United States

• Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Orion, California, a former settlement
• Orion, Illinois, a village
  • Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
  • Orion High School
• Orion, Wisconsin, a town
  • Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• 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, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
• Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

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Science and technology

Astronomy

• 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

• Orion (genus), a genus of beetles
• Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety
• Historis odius, the Orion, a butterfly in the genus Historis

Computing

• 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

Other technologies

• Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK
• Orion (spacecraft instrument), two research instruments on manned 1970s Soviet spacecraft

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Sports

Football (soccer)

• Orion F.C., a Scottish football club
• Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club
• A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club

Other sports

• Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team
• Goyang Orion Orions, a South Korean basketball team

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Transportation

Air

• 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 unmanned aircraft
• Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley

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

Military vessels

• 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

• 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

Rockets

• 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

• Orion (spacecraft), NASA's planned crew vehicle
• 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)

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Other uses

• Orion (dog), a rescue dog
• Orion, flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackray

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See also

• Arion (disambiguation)
• 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 1 (disambiguation)
• Orion 2 (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Orion"
• All pages with a title containing Orion

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