Orion

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Orion may refer to:

Common meanings

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

Fictional entities

Characters and species

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

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

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

Albums and long-form compositions

Orion (Ryan Adams album)
Orion (X Ambassadors album)
Orion, 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

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

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 (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

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

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

Arts and media

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

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 (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company

Transportation and vehicles

Transport carriers

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

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

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

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

United States

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

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

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 (beetle), 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
Orion, IT admin software by SolarWinds

Other technologies

Orion (laser), a large laser installation in the UK
Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

Sports

Football (soccer)

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

Other sports

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

Transportation and military

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 uncrewed aircraft
Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley
Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone

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

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

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