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Orion most commonly refers to:
  • Orion of Thebes, a 5th century grammarian Orion may also refer to:

    Space exploration

  • Orion (spacecraft), a U.S. space capsule under development by NASA and Lockheed Martin
  • Orion (U.S. rocket), an American sounding rocket
  • Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories, Soviet space observatories onboard space station Salyut 1 (1971) and Soyuz 13 (1973), respectively
  • Orion (Argentine rocket), an Argentine sounding rocket
  • Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a proposed nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft
  • Orion, the lunar module of the Apollo 16 manned mission to the moon

    Toponymy

  • Orion, Alberta, Canada
  • Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
  • Orion, Bataan, the Philippines In the United States:
  • Orion, Illinois
  • Orion, Wisconsin
  • Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
  • Orion Township, Michigan
  • Orion Township, Minnesota

    Companies

  • Orion (company), a supplier of consumer electronics and major appliances from Hungary
  • Orion Airways, a former airline based in England
  • Orion Breweries, a beer brewery in Japan
  • Orion Bus Industries, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler
  • 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
  • Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American retailer of telescopes and astronomy equipment
  • Orion (TV channel), a Greek television station
  • Orion, a Czech chocolate brand of Nestlé

    Computing

  • Ferranti Orion, a multiprogramming business computer produced by Ferranti in the UK
  • HLH Orion, a minicomputer produced by High Level Hardware in the UK
  • ORION (network), the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network in Canada
  • Orion Platinum, a music production software
  • Orion EDMS, Enterprise Document Management System from MagSoft
  • Orion quantum computing system, a hardware accelerator

    Fiction

  • Orion (comics), a DC comic book character
  • Orion (manga), a manga by Masamune Shirow
  • Orion (Star Trek), an extraterrestrial race in the 'Star Trek universe
  • The Orion Project, a genetic experiment in the Halo universe
  • Orion, a white-and-orange cat in Men in Black
  • Orion, a fictional Aurora class battleship in the Stargate universe
  • Orion, a fictional Space Shuttle in the novel Shadow Watch
  • Orion, a series of fiction books by Ben Bova
  • ORION, spacecraft in the 1960s German science fiction TV series Raumpatrouille.
  • Orion, a star system in the turn-based strategy game Master of Orion, and its sequels

    Media

  • Orion (magazine), a magazine about nature and the environment
  • Orion, the student newspaper of California State University, Chico

    Arts

  • Orion (singer), stage name of American singer Jimmy Ellis
  • Orion, stage name of Tomasz Wróblewski, bassist of the band Behemoth
  • "Orion", an instrumental by Metallica from the album, Master of Puppets
  • "Orion", a song by Dead Can Dance from the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998)
  • Krewe of Orion, a Mardi Gras Krewe
  • "Orion (producer)" an electronic dance group, produced by Darren Tate and Rob Davis.

    Transportation

  • Lockheed Model 9 Orion aircraft
  • P-3 Orion, an anti-submarine warfare and surveillance aircraft produced by Lockheed
  • Orion Bus Industries
  • Ford Orion, an automobile model of the Ford Motor Company
  • German auxiliary cruiser Orion
  • HMS Orion, several Royal Navy vessels
  • MV Orion, an expedition ship operated by Orion Expedition Cruises
  • Orion, a South Devon Railway Comet class steam locomotive

    Other

  • Orion F.C., a defunct Scottish football (soccer) club
  • Asociación Deportiva Orión a Panamanian football (soccer) club
  • Orion (hostel), hostel #7 of Jorhat Engineering College, Assam, India
  • Orion Building, a building in Birmingham
  • Orion, Finnish Film Archive's movie theater on Eerikinkatu, Helsinki
  • Orion, a proposed laser system at AWE, Aldermaston
  • Orion (grape), a hybrid grape variety of German origin
  • Chris Orion, American radio personality
  • Orion Black, the father of Sirius Black in the Harry Potter novelsFurther Information

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