Astra may refer to:

People

Astra (name) Astra is a unisex given name. People with the name include: Given name * Astra Biltauere (born 1944), Latvian volleyball player * Astra Blair (born 1932), British opera singer * Astra Clément-Bayard, French manufacturer of dirigibles * Astra Des ...

Places

* Astra, Chubut, a village in Argentina * Astra (Isauria), a town of ancient Isauria, now in Turkey * Astra, one suggested name for a hypothetical fifth planet that became the asteroid belt

Entertainment

Astra (Marvel Comics) Abomination Absorbing Man Abraxas Abraxas, sometimes called the Dark Man, is a cosmic entity who embodies the destruction of the Marvel multiverse. The existence of Galactus prevents him from emerging. The character, created by Carlos Pach ...

, the name of two otherwise unrelated Marvel Comics characters from 1977 and 1999, respectively *

Astra (DC Comics) ''Supergirl'' is an American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg based on the characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the Superman franchise and Al Plastino and Otto Binder's character Sup ...

* ''Astra'' (film), a 2012 Bengali film *

Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association The Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA) is the peak industry body representing the subscription media industry in Australia. ASTRA's main activities are to represent the industry with government, regulators and the ...

ASTRA Awards The ASTRA Awards were the annual awards for the Australian subscription television industry. According to the Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA), the awards "recognise the wealth of talent that drives the Australi ...

, annual awards presented by the Australian subscription television industry * Astra, a character in the TV series ''

Ultraman Leo is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show and is the 7th show in the Ultra Series. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Steve Krantz Productions, Ultraman Leo was aired between April 12, 1974, and March 28, 1975, with a total of 51 episodes. Tatsumi Nikam ...

Music

* Astra Chamber Music Society, a Melbourne, Australia concert organization, formed in 1951 * Astra (band), an American psychedelic and progressive rock band * ''Astra'' (album), a 1985 release by Asia * ''Astra'', a 1990 composition by

Charles Wuorinen Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor. He composed more than ...

Sports

FC Astra Giurgiu Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (), commonly known as Astra Giurgiu or simply Astra, was a Romanian football club based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ''Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română'', it spent the ...

, a Romanian football club, currently playing in Liga I *

Astra Krotoszyn KKS Astra Krotoszyn is a Polish sports club from Krotoszyn, Greater Poland. Once a multi-sports club, since 2001 it has only two sections: football and volleyball. History The beginning The growing interest in sport in the country in the 1920s ...

, a Polish sports club *

Astra Giurgiu Asociația Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu (), commonly known as Astra Giurgiu or simply Astra, was a Romanian football club based in the city of Giurgiu, Giurgiu County. Founded in 1921 in Ploiești as ''Clubul Sportiv Astra-Română'', it spent th ...

, a Romanian sports club

Software

Trillian Astra Trillian is a proprietary software, proprietary Multiprotocol instant messaging application, multiprotocol instant messaging application created by Cerulean Studios. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android (opera ...

, a codename for a version of Trillian instant messaging (IM) client *

Astra (software) {{Infobox software , name = Astra , author = Andrey Dyldin , developer = Cesbo Ltd. , latest release version = 4.4 ({{start date, 2015, 07, 25) 5.64 ({{start date, 2018, 11, 22) , programming language = ANSI C , operating system = Linux , g ...

, software to organize digital broadcasting services for TV operators and broadcasters, etc.

Transportation

Automobiles

Astra (1920 automobile) The Astra was an American automobile manufactured in 1920. The car was built by a subsidiary concern of Dorris Motors Corporation, and was shown that year in its native St. Louis, Missouri. It featured a wheelbase, a Le Roi (company), Le Roi fou ...

, built by American company Dorris Motors *

Astra (1922 automobile) The Astra was a small French cyclecar made by E Pasquet in Paris. The automobile was manufactured only in 1922. Features It had a twin-cylinder two-stroke engine of 496 cc. It featured independent suspension on all four wheels, as well as fri ...

, French cyclecar made by E Pasquet *

Astra (1930 automobile) The Astra was made by Automobiles Astra, Liège, Belgium in 1930. It is considered a textbook example of car design piracy, as the 1,100cc S.C.A.P.-engined car that made its debut at the 1930 Brussels Motor Show was an almost exact copy of the Tract ...

, shown by Belgian company Automobiles Astra, but never produced *

Astra (1954 automobile) Astra may refer to: People * Astra (name) Places * Astra, Chubut, a village in Argentina * Astra (Isauria), a town of ancient Isauria, now in Turkey * Astra, one suggested name for a hypothetical fifth planet that became the asteroid belt En ...

, built by British Anzani until 1959 *

Astra Veicoli Industriali Astra Veicoli Industriali S.p.A. (Anonima Sarda TRAsporti) is an Italian company that produces trucks, heavy transport vehicles and military vehicles. Astra was privately founded in 1946 in Cagliari, and since 1986 has been part of Iveco. In 195 ...

, Italian truck manufacturer, a subsidiary of IVECO *

Astra Bus Astra Bus is a bus manufacturer based in Arad, Romania. The company was established in 1996, splitting from Astra Vagoane Arad, a company specialized in manufacturing railroad cars. Since 2003, it is part of the Cefin Holding Group and their p ...

, a bus manufacturer based in Romania *

Vauxhall Astra The Vauxhall Astra is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) that has been sold by Vauxhall since 1980. It is currently produced at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. For its first two generations, the nameplate was applied to right-han ...

, British GM brand since 1979, originally a version of the Opel Kadett *

Holden Astra The Holden Astra is a small car formerly marketed by Holden. The first couple of generations of Astra were made only for Australia, and was a derivative of the locally produced Nissan Pulsar. With the Button car plan coming into effect, it was ...

, Australian version of the Nissan Pulsar, 1984–1989; version of the Opel Astra since 1995 *

Opel Astra The Opel Astra is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) developed and produced by the German automaker Opel since 1991, currently at its sixth generation. It was first launched in September 1991 as a direct replacement to the Opel Kadet ...

, produced since 1991; also known as the Chevrolet Astra and Saturn Astra

Aviation

IAI Astra The Gulfstream G100, formerly known as the IAI Astra SPX, is an Israel Aerospace Industries-manufactured twin-engine business jet, that was produced for Gulfstream Aerospace. Deliveries began in 1986. The United States Air Force employs the ai ...

, Israel Aircraft Industries-manufactured twin-engine business jet * A Handley Page Hinaidi prototype, later used for barnstorming in England under the name ''Astra'' *

Stellar Astra The Stellar Astra is an American ultralight trike that was designed by Allistair Wilson and produced by Stellar Aircraft of Bloomfield, Indiana. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft. As of 2013 th ...

, American ultralight trike design *

Ultralight Engineering Astra The Ultralight Engineering Astra ( en, Star) is an American high-wing, tricycle landing gear, flying wires, cable-braced, single-seat, open cockpit, single engine in pusher configuration, ultralight aircraft that was designed and produced by Ul ...

, ultralight aircraft *

Société Astra ''Société Astra des Constructions Aéronautiques'' was a major French manufacturer of balloons, airships, and aeroplanes in the early 20th century. It was founded in 1908 in aviation, 1908 when Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe purchased Édouard Surco ...

, French airship and aeroplane manufacturer *

Astra Airlines Astra Airlines was a Greek regional airline headquartered in Thessaloniki and based at Thessaloniki International Airport. History The carrier was founded by Ioannis Zlatanis, founder of Interaviator Ltd, and Anastasios Zirinis, former CEO of ...

, an airline based in Thessaloniki, Greece

Rail

* Astra Rail Industries, a Romanian rail vehicle manufacturer *

Astra Vagoane Călători Astra may refer to: People * Astra (name) Places * Astra, Chubut, a village in Argentina * Astra (Isauria), a town of ancient Isauria, now in Turkey * Astra, one suggested name for a hypothetical fifth planet (hypothetical), fifth planet that be ...

, a passenger rail and tram cars manufacturer in

Arad, Romania Arad (; German and Hungarian: ''Arad,'' ) is the capital city of Arad County, Transylvania. It is the third largest city in Western Romania, behind Timișoara and Oradea, and the 12th largest in Romania, with a population of 159,704. A busy tr ...

Spaceflight

* Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics, a Scottish space advocacy group *

Astra (American spaceflight company) Astra is an American launch vehicle company based in Alameda, California. Astra was incorporated in October 2016 by Chris Kemp and Adam London. Formerly known in media as "Stealth Space Company", the company formally came out as Astra Space, ...

, a US launch service provider with its rocket Astra *

ASTRA program Liquid Fly-back Booster (LFBB) was a German Aerospace Center's (DLR's) project concept to develop a liquid rocket booster capable of reusing for Ariane 5 in order to significantly reduce the high cost of space transportation and increase env ...

, a German future launcher technology research program from 1995 to 2005 *

SES Astra SES Astra SA was a corporate subsidiary of SES, based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg, that maintained and operated the Astra series of geostationary communication satellites between 2001 and 2011. Formed in 1985 as Société Européenne de ...

, a subsidiary of SES that owns and operates communications satellites *

Astra (satellite) Astra is the brand name for a number of geostationary satellite, geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg, Betz ...

, a family of satellites operated by SES S.A. through SES Astra

Military and weaponry

Astra (weapon) In Hinduism, an (Sanskrit: अस्त्र) was a supernatural weapon, presided over by a specific deity and imbued with spiritual and occult powers that caused its effect or impact. Later the word came to denote any weapon which was used b ...

, a supernatural weapon in Hindu mythology *

Astra (missile) Astra (Sanskrit: "weapon") is an Indian family of all weather beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The missile is capable of engaging targets at varying ranges from a distance ...

Astra-Unceta y Cia SA Astra Unceta y Cía was a Spanish weapons manufacturer founded on July 17, 1908, under the name Esperanza y Unceta by Juan Esperanza and Pedro Unceta. Initially based in Eibar, the centre of the Basque arms industry, the company moved in 1913 t ...

Spanish weapons manufacturer

Other uses

Astra (beer) Astra may refer to: People * Astra (name) Places * Astra, Chubut, a village in Argentina * Astra (Isauria), a town of ancient Isauria, now in Turkey * Astra, one suggested name for a hypothetical fifth planet (hypothetical), fifth planet that be ...

Astra (horse) Astra (foaled January 25, 1996, in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racemare who won four Grade I races on turf. Background She was bred and raced by Allen Paulson who also owned and raced her dam and her sire. Her dam was Savannah Slew, ...

Astra AB Astra AB was a former international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Södertälje, Sweden. Astra was formed in 1913 and merged with the British Zeneca, Zeneca Group in 1999 to form AstraZeneca. Product development was focused on therapeutics ...

, former international pharmaceutical company based in Sweden *

Astra International Astra International is an Indonesian conglomerate controlled by Jardine Matheson. It is founded in 1957 by Tjia Kian Tie, Liem Pen Hong with the name of PT. Astra International Incorporated. It is Southeast Asia's largest independent automotive g ...

, Indonesian conglomerate *

ASTRA (reactor) ASTRA was a type of nuclear research reactor built in Seibersdorf, Austria near Vienna, at the site of the former Austrian Reactor Center Seibersdorf which now forms part of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). The acronym stands for Adapt ...

, Adaptierter Schwimmbecken-Typ-Reaktor Austria, a type of nuclear reactor *

American Specialty Toy Retailing Association The American Specialty Toy Retailing Association, or ''ASTRA'', is an organization of manufacturers, manufacturers representatives, distributors and retailers of specialty toys (as compared to mass market product). The American Specialty Toy Re ...

Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People ( ro, Asociația Transilvană pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român, ASTRA) is a cultural association founded in 1861 in Sibiu (Hermanns ...

(abbreviated as ASTRA in Romanian), a Romanian Transylvanian cultural association * ASTRA, a branch of

Altrusa International, Inc Altrusa International, Inc (Altrusa) is an international non-profit organization focused on community service. It was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1917 by Dr. Alfred Durham as a chain of national clubs for business and professional women. H ...