Pegasus (disambiguation)
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Pegasus can mean many things:
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Traditional
- Pegasus is the winged horse of Greek mythology.
- Pegasus is a constellation.
- Pegasus is the name of two galaxies.
Hydronautical and aerospace
- Several Royal Navy ships were named Pegasus:
- *HMS Pegasus (1786), a 28-gun frigate, once commanded by Prince William Henry (King William IV)
- *HMS Pegasus (1897, a Pelorus class third class cruiser
- *HMS Pegasus (1934), an early aircraft carrier or seaplane carrier, originally commissioned as HMS Ark Royal in 1914.
- The Pegasus class of hydrofoils, formerly operated by the U.S. Navy, or USS Pegasus, the first of class (formerly provisionally named Delphinus).
- Two British aero engines were known as Pegasus:
- *The Bristol-Siddeley, later Rolls-Royce Pegasus vectored thrust jet
- *The Bristol Pegasus radial engine
- The Pegasus rocket is a current satellite launch vehicle produced by Orbital Sciences.
- The Pegasus satellite program was a series of three satellites launched in 1965 with large fold-out panels to characterize the then-unknown micrometeroid environment of low Earth orbit.
- The X-47 Pegasus is a Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle demonstrator.
- The Aero Adventure Pegasus is a home-built aircraft design
Information technology
- Pegasus Mail is an email client for the DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- The Pegasus computer was an early computer made by Ferranti.
- Pegasus was the code name for the Handheld PC and Windows CE 1.0.
- [Pegasus] is an open-source implementation of the [Distributed Management Task Force] [Common Information Model] and [Web-Based Enterprise Management] standards.
In fiction
- Pegasus is the main character of Japan's famous anime Saint Seiya (Knights of the Zodiac), who protects the goddess of war Athena.
- Maximillion Pegasus (Pegasus J. Crawford in the original Japanese anime and manga) is the name of a character from the anime and manga series Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Pegasus is a character in the anime and manga series Sailor Moon.
- The Pegasus ships are a class of mobile suit carriers in the Gundam Universe.
- Pegasus is the name of the old rocking horse owned and cherished by Maud, the youngest of the four title characters in Barbara Willard's The Richleighs of Tantamount.
- The Pegasus (TNG episode), a seventh season episode of
- The Battlestar Pegasus in both the original and new Battlestar Galactica, and the episode "Pegasus" from the new series.
- The spacecraft Pegasus (BBC) featured in the BBC drama documentary television series (2004), about how humans might one day travel to the planets.
- The Pegasus Galaxy (Stargate) is a dwarf galaxy in the fictional Stargate universe.
Symbols and monikers
- Pegasus is the symbol of the magazine, Reader's Digest.

- Pegasus galloping toward the viewer (camera) is the symbol of TriStar Pictures, a subdivision of Sony Pictures.

- Pegasus is the school mascot for the University of Central Florida (UCF).
- Pegasus F.C. was an English amateur football club based in Oxford.
- A stylized image of the mythical flying horse Pegasus, usually rendered in red, was the symbol of Mobilgas service stations [link].
Military
- Pegasus Bridge was the objective of a British airborne landing at the start of the Battle of Normandy, June 1944.
- Operation Pegasus was the Allied effort to recover soldiers after the failure of the Battle of Arnhem, September 1944.
- Operation Pegasus was the relief of the besieged Marine Corps garrison at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War, April 1968.
Popular Music
Pegasus is an instrumental song written by Dickey Betts from The Allman Brothers Band's 1979 album Enlightened Rogues.Art
Pegasus is a very complex piece of artwork by American artist Jean Michel Basquiat.Other
- Pegasus Airlines is an airline based in Istanbul, Turkey
- Pegasus (genus), or Sea Moth, a genus of fish which includes vulnerable species, belonging to the family Pegasidae, order Gasterosteiformes
- Pegasus is a name for a DIY Hovercraft
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- Pegasus crossing is a road crossing for horse riders in the UK.
- The Pegasus Award is given out for excellence in the field of filk music.
- Pegasus Kid was the ringname of Chris Benoit while wrestling in Japan and Mexico.
- Pegasus is the name of an award winning bitter brewed by Milton Brewery in Cambridge, UK.
- Pegasus is a name of a popular Men's club in Quezon City, Philippines
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