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Helios (disambiguation)

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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

Art

Comics and animation

Music

Albums

Video games

Film

Business and industry

Aviation

  • Helios Airways, a former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
    • Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005, into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
  • Helios Prototype, a NASA developed solar and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicle

Military

Science

  • Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun
  • Zinc finger protein Helios, encoded by the IKZF2 gen.
  • Helios, a supercomputer in Rokkasho, Aomori for simulating plasma physics.

Space

  • 895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
  • Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
  • Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
  • Helios probes, deep space probes launched in the mid-1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
  • Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System

Physics

Software

Sports and recreation

People
Teams

See also