Orion

Orion most commonly refers to:

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

Orion may also refer to:

Astronomy

• Orion Nebula, a nebula in the Orion Constellation
• Orion Arm, a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy
• Project Orion, a 1980 NASA astrometry study of a system of methods of detecting extrasolar planets using astronomical interferometry

Places

United States

• Orion, California
• Orion, Illinois
  • Orion High School, a school in Orion, Illinois.
• Orion, Wisconsin, a town
• Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
• Orion Township, Michigan
• Orion Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

• Orion, Alberta, Canada
• Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
• Orion, Bataan, the Philippines
• Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route near Dee Island on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

Buildings

• 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

People

In ancient times

• Orion of Thebes (died ca. 460), grammarian scholar in Ancient Egypt

With the surname Orion

• Chris Orion (born 1976), American radio personality
• Ezra Orion (born 1934), Israeli artist
• Agustín Orión (born 1981), Argentine soccer player

With the given name Orion

• Orion Clemens (1825–1897), Secretary of Nevada Territory and brother of Mark Twain
• Orion P. Howe (1848–1930), Union drummer boy in American Civil War, and one of the youngest recipients of the U.S. Medal of Honor

Stage name Orion

• Orion (musician) (1945–1998), stage name of American rockabilly singer Jimmy "Orion" Ellis
• Orion, industry name of record producer Darren Tate (born 1972)
• Tomasz Wróblewski (born 1980), Polish musician, stage name Orion

Aerospace

In astronautics

• Orion (spacecraft), NASA's Space Shuttle replacement
  • Orion Lite, a proposed stripped-down version of the Orion spacecraft
• Orion, the Apollo Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission
• Orion 1 and Orion 2 Space Observatories

• Orion (U.S. rocket)
• Orion (Argentine rocket)
• Orion, a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a project of nuclear pulse propulsion utilizing atomic bomb explosions

• Project Orion, a project to build a laser broom for the International Space Station

In aviation

• Orion Airways
• Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
• P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft introduced in 1962
  • EP-3A/B Orion, a reconnaissance version of the aircraft

Computing

• Orion (system-on-a-chip)
• ORION (Research and Education network)
• Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959
• HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s
• Orion Application Server
• Orion (music software), a music production software program
• Orion quantum computing system
• Orion, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore

Food and drink

• Orion (grape)
• Orion gris
• Orion (wine)
• Orion Breweries

Film and television

• Orion (TV channel)
• Orion (Chuck)
• Orion (Star Trek), an alien species
• Orion Pictures, an American film production company
• Orion Pax, the name of the fictional robot Optimus Prime of the anime series Transformers prior to his reconstruction as an autobot warrior.
• Raumpatrouille Orion, a German TV series
• Orion, a starship in Stargate

Music

• Orione (opera), 1653 opera by Francesco Cavalli
• Orion (album), by Ryan Adams
• "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
• "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
• Orion Records, a classical record label active ca. 1968-1988
• Orion, an album by the musical band she.
• "Orion", a work composed by Philip Glass in 2004
• "Orion", a song by 12012
• "Orion", a song by Dead Can Dance on the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998)
• "Orion", a song by Jethro Tull on the album Stormwatch
• "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental by Metallica on the album Master of Puppets

Publications and publishing

• Orion (comics), a DC Comics character
• Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
• Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment, and culture.
• Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion, a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi
• Orion Publishing Group
• Orion, a poem by Richard Henry Horne
• Orion, a novel series by Ben Bova
• The Orion, the student newspaper of California State University, Chico
• ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
• Orions, a race in the Starfire game and book series
• Orion Fowl, a character in Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex

Sports

• Orion F.C., a Scottish football club
• Asociación Deportiva Orión, a Panamanian football club
• Orions, former name of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese baseball team
• Goyang Orions, a South Korean basketball team

Transportation

Land transport

• 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 transport

• Orion (paddle steamer), a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850
• MV Orion, a leisure travel cruise vessel.
• RMS Orion, an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company

Sea transport (military)

• USS Orion, the name of several U.S. Navy vessels
• HMS Orion, the name of several Royal Navy vessels
• Orion class battleship, a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy
• HMAS Orion, Oberon class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy
• French ship Orion (1787), a Téméraire class ship of the French Navy
• German auxiliary cruiser Orion, World War II merchant raider

Businesses

• Orion Breweries, a Japan brewery
• Orion Confectionery, a South Korean confectionery company
• Orion Corporation, a Finnish pharmaceutical company
• Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
• Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
• Orion Energy Systems, Inc., an American power technology company
• Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line
• Orion International, a Canadian bus manufacturer
• Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company
• Orion Optics, a British telescope manufacturer
• Orion Telescopes & Binoculars, an American company
• Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer