Orion
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Orion may mean:
Astronomy and mythology
- Orion (mythology) the hunter, from Greek mythology
- Orion (constellation), a constellation
- Orion Arm, a spiral arm in the Milky Way galaxy
- Orion Nebula, a nebula also known as M42
Companies
- Orion (company), supplier of consumer electronics and white goods from Hungary
- Orion Beer, a beer manufacturing company based in Okinawa, Japan
- Orion Bus Industries, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, based in Oriskany, New York and Mississauga, Ontario
- Orion Confectionery, a company in Seoul, Korea
- Orion Electric, an electronics manufacturer based in Fukui, Japan
- Orion Expedition Cruises, a cruise line based in Australia
- Orion Group, a company in Korea
- Orion Health, a Health IT company in Auckland, New Zealand
- Orion Multisystems, a personal supercomputer company in the US (defunct as of 2006) [link]
- Orion Optics, a telescope manufacturer in the UK
- Orion Pictures, a defunct movie company
- Orion Publishing Group, owned by Hachette Livre
- Orion Telecommunications, a telecommunications company based in Australia
- Orion, a car audio company until bought by Directed Electronics
- Orion, a Greek television station
Computing
- HLH Orion, a minicomputer produced by High Level Hardware in the UK
- Master of Orion, a computer game
- Orion (High Availability), multi-platform managed availability software solution from Vision Solutions
- ORION (network), the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network in Canada
- Orion Application Server, a J2EE server
- Orion Platinum, a music production software
- ORION ERP, an Enterprise Resource Planning Software by 3i Infotech
- Orion Software, a video game developer from the 1980s
- Orion Corporate & Trust Services Ltd, service in incorporating IBCs
Fiction
- Orion (comics), a comic book character, the son of Darkseid, in the DC Comics universe
- Orion (manga), the manga by Masamune Shirow
- Orion (novel), a 1978 novel by G.B. Giorgio (Gail Brewer-Giorgio)
- Orion (Star Trek), an extraterrestrial race in the fictional Star Trek universe
- Orion III - the 216 ft Pan Am Space Clipper shuttle in
- ORION Foundation, a fictional intelligence organization from the TSR, Inc. role-playing game Top Secret/S.I..
- Orion's Arm, a collaborative online science-fiction universe
- Orion, extraterrestrial race of humanoid cats from David Weber and Steve White's novel The Shiva Option
- Orion, the name of a white and orange cat in the first Men in Black film
- Raumpatrouille Orion, a German science fiction series
- Orion, a fictional spaceship in the Stargate universe
- Orion, a novel (and several sequels) by Ben Bova with elements of science fiction, history, and mythology
Media
- Orion.78, a song in the Dance Dance Revolution series
- Orion (song), an instrumental piece in the Master of Puppets album by Metallica
People
- Orion (singer), stage name of American singer Jimmy Ellis, who dressed and sang in the manner of Elvis Presley following Presley's death
Places
- Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in France
- Orion, Bataan, a municipality in the province of Bataan in the Philippines
- Orion, Illinois, a rural town in Henry County, Illinois, United States
Transportation
Aircraft
- Lockheed Model 9 Orion, Lockheed's Model 9.
- P-3 Orion, an anti-submarine warfare and surveillance aircraft produced by Lockheed.
Rockets
- Orion (US-rocket), a sounding rocket of the United States
- Orion (Rocket of Argentina), a sounding rocket of Argentina
Ships
Vehicles
- Ford Orion, an automobile model of the Ford Motor Company
Other
- Orion (satellite), a communications satellite
- Project Orion, a proposed nuclear pulse propulsion system
- Orion Propulsion, a propulsion development company
- A proposed laser system at AWE, Aldermaston
- Orion Building, a building in Birmingham.
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