Orion () may refer to:

Common meanings

Orion (constellation) Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky. It is named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. ...

, named after the mythical hunter *

Orion (mythology) In Greek mythology, Orion (; Ancient Greek: Ὠρίων or ; Latin: ''Orion'') was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. Ancient sources told several different stories about Orio ...

, a hunter in Greek mythology * Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first launched in 2022

Arts and media

Fictional entities

Characters and species

Orion (character) Orion is a fictional superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discove ...

, a DC Comics character * Orion (''Star Trek''), a sentient alien species * Orion, code name of Stephen J. Bartowski on the television show ''Chuck'' * Orion, in the fighting game ''

Brawlhalla ''Brawlhalla'' is a free-to-play fighting game developed by Blue Mammoth Games and published by Ubisoft for macOS, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series S & X, Android and iOS, with full cross ...

'' * Orions, a race in the '' Starfire'' board game and book series * Orion, a character from ''Power Rangers Super Megaforce'' * Captain Orion, in the Japanese series '' X-Bomber''

Vessels

* ''Orion'', a spaceplane in the film ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' * ''Orion'', a spaceship in '' Raumpatrouille Orion'' (''Space Patrol Orion'' in English), the first German science fiction television series * ''"Orion"''-class spaceship, on the television series '' Ascension''

Literature

* ''Orion'', an 1843 poem by

Richard Henry Horne Richard Hengist Horne (born Richard Henry Horne) (31 December 1802 – 13 March 1884) was an English poet and critic most famous for his poem ''Orion''. Early life Horne was born at Edmonton, London, son of James Horne, a quarter-master in t ...

* ''Orion'', a 1978 novel by Gail Brewer-Giorgio * ''Orion and King Arthur'', a 2012 novel series by Ben Bova * '' The Orion'', an 1893 book on sociology by Bal Gangadhar Tilak * ''

Dead at Daybreak ''Dead at Daybreak'' is the second crime novel written by South African thriller novelist, Deon Meyer. Its Afrikaans title is ''Orion'', and it has been translated into English by Madeleine van Biljon. In this bestselling thriller, the author br ...

'', a 1998 novel by Deon Meyer, originally published as ''Orion''

Music

Albums and long-form compositions

* ''Orion'' (Ryan Adams album) * ''Orion'' (X Ambassadors album) * '' Orion'', a 1979 orchestral work by

Claude Vivier Claude Vivier ( ; baptised as Claude Roger; 14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian contemporary composer, pianist, poet and ethnomusicologist of Québécois origin. After studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, Vivier became an in ...

* ''Orion'' (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste * ''Orion'', a 2004 Philip Glass composition * ''Orion'', an album by the band

she She most commonly refers to: *She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English. She or S.H.E. may also refer to: Literature and films *'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...

* ''Orion & Pleiades'' (1984), a symphonic work by

Toru Takemitsu TORU or Toru may refer to: * TORU, spacecraft system * Toru (given name), Japanese male given name * Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western ...

Songs

* "Orion" (Girl Next Door song) * "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song) * "Orion", a song by

12012 is a Japanese visual kei rock band. Formed in 2003 in Osaka Prefecture, the group centers its work around the concept of "madness inside a human" (人間の内面における狂気 '). 12012 is also the penal code for the possession of a dange ...

* "Orion", a song in the boxed set ''

Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) ''Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)'' (2001) is a four-disc box set, containing three CDs of music spanning Dead Can Dance's career and a DVD of their 1994 video release '' Toward the Within''. While most of the tracks are taken from previously r ...

'' by Dead Can Dance * "Orion", a song on the album '' Stormwatch'' by Jethro Tull * "Orion", an instrumental piece on the album ''

Master of Puppets ''Master of Puppets'' is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica, released on March 3, 1986, by Elektra Records. Recorded in Denmark at Sweet Silence Studios with producer Flemming Rasmussen, it was the band's last albu ...

'' by Metallica * "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by

Kenshi Yonezu is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and illustrator who began releasing Vocaloid music under the stage name in 2009. In 2012, he debuted under his real name, releasing music with his own voice. He has sold at least 4.2 mi ...

Other uses in music

Orion Records Orion Records was a primarily classical record label active from the late 1960s until 1988. It grew out of an earlier, Canadian label, Baroque Records, founded by former Everest Records executive Giveon Cornfield.Siskind, Jacob"Record World" ''T ...

(1960s–'80s), a classical record label *

Jimmy "Orion" Ellis James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998), who used the stage name Orion at times in his career, was an American singer. His voice was similar to Elvis Presley's, a fact which he and his record company ...

, American singer

Periodicals

* ''Orion'' (manga), by Masamune Shirow * ''Orion'' (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture * ''ORiON'', the journal of the

Operations Research Society of South Africa The Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) (Afrikaans: Die Operasionele Navorsingsvereniging van Suid-Afrika (ONSA)) is the national, professional body tasked with furthering the interests of those engaged in, or interested in, operat ...

* '' Ginga Densetsu Weed: Orion'', a manga by Yoshihiro Takahashi * ''The Orion'' (California State University, Chico), a student newspaper

Other uses in arts and media

* ''Orion'' (film), a Canadian film * ''Orion'' (sculpture), work by Mark di Suvero * Miss Riboet's Orion (1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies

Buildings

* The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City *

Orion Assembly Orion Assembly is a General Motors vehicle assembly plant located in Orion Township, Michigan. The plant currently assembles the Chevrolet Bolt and Cruise AV. As of September 2019, the plant has approximately 1,032 salaried and hourly employee ...

, 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 National Audiovisual Institute ( fi, Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti; sv, Nationella audiovisuella institutet or ') is a governmental bureau under the Finnish Ministry of Education responsible for supervising the distribution of audiovisu ...

Orion Theatre The Orion Theatre (Swedish: ''Orionteatern'') is a theater located at Katarina Bangata 77 in the district of Södermalm in Stockholm, Sweden. Orion theater was founded in 1983 and is the city's largest avant-garde stage. History The building ...

, largest avant-garde theatrical/artist stage in Stockholm, Sweden *

Orion Mall Orion Mall is a shopping mall at Brigade Gateway Enclave in Bangalore, Karnataka, India developed by Brigade Group (Developer). The mall with a total shopping area of 8.2 Lakh sq.ft. is the 3rd largest in Bangalore. About Orion Mall is par ...

, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall

Companies

Arts and media

* Orion Pictures, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM * Orion Publishing Group, a UK-based book publisher *

(1960s–'80s), a classical record label

Electrical power and electronics

Orion Electric was a Japanese consumer electronics company that was established in 1958 in Osaka, Japan. Their devices were branded as "Orion". The company used to be called Orion Electric, until Brain and Capital Holdings, Inc. (Japanese company) acquired it ...

, a Japanese electronics company *

Orion Electronics Orion Electronics Ltd is a consumer electronics company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. Orion supplies a wide range of brown and white goods including televisions ( LCD, Plasma and CRT), DVD players/ recorders/with HDD, home theatre sy ...

, a Hungarian company *

Orion Energy Systems Orion Energy Systems Inc. is an American LED lighting and intelligent controls enterprise, founded in Plymouth, Wisconsin, and headquartered in Manitowoc, Wisconsin History Orion Energy Systems Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in ...

, an American power technology company * Orion New Zealand Limited, a New Zealand electricity distribution company

Food and beverage

* Orion Breweries, the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan *

Orion Confectionery Orion Corporation (, ) is a South Korean confectionery company, headquartered in Munbae-dong, Yongsan District, Seoul. The company is one of the three largest food companies in South Korea, and was established in 1956 as Tongyang Confectionery ...

, a South Korean confectionery company

Transportation and vehicles

Transport carriers

Orion Airways Orion Airways (known simply as 'Orion') was an airline based in the United Kingdom with its head office on the grounds of East Midlands Airport in Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire."World Airline Directory." ''Flight International''. ...

, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989 *

Orion Air Orion Air was an airline based in Seychelles. The airline ceased operations in 2008. References External links {{Airlines of Seychelles Defunct airlines of Seychelles Airlines established in 2004 Airlines disestablished in 2008 ...

, a Seychelles airline * Orion Expedition Cruises, an Australian cruise line *

Orionair Orionair was a charter airline based in Valencia, Spain. History Orionair was established in 2004 and operated domestic and international services in Europe and to Tunisia. Its main base was Valencia Airport, with a hub at Madrid Barajas Intern ...

, a Spanish charter airline * Orionair, name used by Luxembourg airline Lionair when operating flights to the United States

Vehicle manufacturers

Orion Bus Industries Orion Bus Industries, also known as Bus Industries of America in the United States, was a private bus manufacturer based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The company had its main manufacturing plant in Mississauga and sent bus body shells to ...

, a Canadian bus manufacturer * Orion Space, a Nepalese company producing the Nepal PQ-1 picosatellite * Orionette, also known as Orion AG für Motorfahrzeuge, a German motorcycle manufacturer

Other companies

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars Orion Telescopes & Binoculars is an American retail company that sells telescopes, binoculars and accessories online and in-store for astronomy and birdwatching. It was founded in 1975 and has corporate offices in Watsonville, California. A large ...

, an American company *

Orion Corporation Orion Corporation ( fi, Orion Oyj), founded in 1917 and headquartered at Espoo, Finland, is a globally operating Finnish company which develops, manufactures and markets human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients ...

, a Finnish pharmaceutical company

People

* Orion (name) * Orion, industry name of record producer

Darren Tate Darren Tate (born 22 October 1972, in London) is a British record producer, film composer and club DJ. Biography As a classically trained musician, Tate has worked with international artists and songwriters with whom he collaborates regularly. ...

(born 1972) * Orion, stage name of

Tomasz Wróblewski Tomasz Wróblewski (born 2 June 1980), stage name Orion, is a Polish extreme metal musician, best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for black-death metal band Behemoth. Since 1997, he also is a member of symphonic black metal band Vesa ...

(born 1980), Polish musician *

(1945–1998), American rockabilly singer

Places

United States

Orion, Alabama Orion, also known as Prospect Ridge, is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Alabama, United States, located north of Troy. History Originally called Prospect Ridge, the name was changed to Orion in honor of the constellation. Orion was ...

, an unincorporated community *

Orion, Illinois Orion ( ) is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,861 at the 2010 census. It is the site for transmitters for many of the Quad Cities' radio and television stations, including KLJB, KWQC-TV, WMWC-TV, WQAD-TV, ...

, a village **

Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois Orion Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,195 and it contained 518 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of wh ...

Orion High School Orion High School, or OHS, is a public four-year high school located at 1103 13th St. in Orion, Illinois, a village in Western Township of Henry County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. OHS is part of Orion Community Unit School Distr ...

, in Orion, Illinois * Orion, Wisconsin, a town ** Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *

Orion Township, Michigan Orion Charter Township ( ) is a charter township of Oakland County, Michigan, United States. The population was 39,816 as on July 1, 2019. The official motto of the township and village is "Where living is a vacation". "Lake Orion" is often used ...

* Orion Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

Orion, Alberta Orion is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within the County of Forty Mile No. 8. The hamlet is located approximately south of Medicine Hat along Highway 61. Demographics Orion recorded a population of 11 in the 1991 Census of Population conduc ...

, Canada, a hamlet *

Orion, Bataan Orion, officially the Municipality of Orion (formerly Udyong), ( tl, Bayan ng Orion), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 60,771 people. History 2019 Orion fire ...

, the Philippines, a municipality * Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune * Orion, Queensland, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region * Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

Science and technology

Astronomy

, named after the mythical hunter *

Orion Arm The Orion Arm is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy that is across and approximately in length, containing the Solar System, including Earth. It is also referred to by its full name, the Orion–Cygnus Arm, as well as Local Arm, Orion ...

, a galactic spiral arm with apparent location near the constellation * Orion Nebula, in the constellation

Biology

* ''Orion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles * Orion (grape), a white wine grape variety * '' Historis odius'', the Orion, a butterfly in the genus ''Historis''

Computing

* ORION (research and education network), the provincial research network of Ontario, Canada *

Orion (system-on-a-chip) Orion is a system-on-a-chip manufactured by Marvell Technology Group and used in network-attached storage. Based on the ARMv5TE architecture, it has on-chip support for Ethernet, SATA and USB, and is used in hardware made by Hewlett-Packard and ...

, used in network-attached storage *

Ferranti Orion The Orion was a mid-range mainframe computer introduced by Ferranti in 1959 and installed for the first time in 1961. Ferranti positioned Orion to be their primary offering during the early 1960s, complementing their high-end Atlas and smaller syst ...

, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959 *

HLH Orion The Orion was a series of 32-bit super-minicomputers designed and produced in the 1980s by High Level Hardware Limited (HLH), a company based in Oxford, UK. The company produced four versions of the machine: * The original Orion, sometimes ref ...

, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s *

Orion Application Server Orion Application Server is a Java EE application server developed by Swedish company IronFlare AB, founded by Magnus Stenman and Karl Avedal. First released in 1999, Orion claims to be the first commercially available application server with full ...

, a Java EE application server * Orion quantum computing system, developed by

D-Wave Systems D-Wave Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Loc ...

* Orion, a browser-based IDE and open tool integration platform from Eclipse * Orion, IT admin software by

SolarWinds SolarWinds Corporation is an American company that develops software for businesses to help manage their networks, systems, and information technology infrastructure. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with sales and product development offi ...

Other technologies

Orion (laser) The Orion Laser Facility (also known as the Orion Laser) is a high power laser facility based at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) on the former RAF Aldermaston site in the United Kingdom. Construction to build Orion began in 2006 and its fi ...

, a large laser installation in the UK *

Orion (space telescope) The Orion space telescopes were a series of two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft during the 1970s to conduct ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars. Orion 1 The Orion 1 space astrophysical observatory was installed in the orbital station ...

, two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

Sports

Football (soccer)

* A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club *

Orión F.C. Orión F.C. is a Costa Rican football club, based in Desamparados. It was founded in 1926 and has most recently played in Costa Rica's First Division in 2012. They were crowned national league champions twice. History The Orion F.C. football clu ...

, a Costa Rican football club * Orion F.C., a Scottish football club

Other sports

Goyang Orion Orions Goyang Carrot Jumpers (Korean: 고양 캐롯 점퍼스) is a professional basketball club based in Goyang, South Korea which plays in the Korean Basketball League. Before the change of ownership in 2022, they were called Orions. History Dayo ...

, a South Korean basketball team * Orions, former name of the

Chiba Lotte Marines The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region, and owned by Lotte Holdings Co., Ltd. History The Marines franchise began in 1950 as the Mainichi Orions, an inaugural ...

, a Japanese baseball team

Transportation and military

Air

Lockheed P-3 Orion The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner.

, a car * ''Orion'', a South Devon Railway Comet-class steam locomotive * ''Orion'', a GWR 3300-class steam locomotive *

Mitsubishi Orion engine The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 187 ...

, a series of internal combustion engines produced by Mitsubishi Motors

Sea

Military vessels

* , several U.S. Navy vessels * , several Royal Navy vessels * , a series of super-dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy * , an ''Oberon''-class of the Royal Australian Navy * , a Swedish ELINT vessel * , a ''Téméraire''-class of the French Navy * , World War II merchant raider * BAE ''Orion'' (H-101), Ecuadorian Navy ship, originally * NRP ''Oríon'' (P1156), a Portuguese Navy

Other vessels

* , a ship which sank off Portpatrick, Scotland in 1850 * , a cruise ship * , an ocean liner of the Orient Steam Navigation Company * , a Swedish steel steamship decommissioned in 1979, now a museum ship *

Orion 50 The Orion 50 is a sailboat designed by American Gary Mull and first built in 1983. The design is out of production. Production The boat was built by Ta Shing Yacht Building in Taiwan, which completed seven examples between 1983 and 1987. D ...

, an American sailboat design * ''Orion'' (ship, 1904), built as a whale-catcher, she later served as a fireboat in Vancouver

Space

Rockets

Orion (rocket) Orion is the designation of a small American sounding rocket. The Orion has a length of 5.60 meters, a diameter of 0.35 m, a launch weight of 400 kg, a launch thrust of 7 kN and a ceiling of 85 kilometers. The Orion, built by NASA Godda ...

, a US sounding rocket *

Orión (rocket) Orión was the designation of a sounding rocket of Argentina, which was started between 1965 and 1971 at CELPA, Mar Chiquita, Tartagal and Wallops Island Wallops Island is a island in Accomack County, Virginia, part of the Virginia Barr ...

, an Argentine sounding rocket *

Orion (rocket stage) Orion is a series of American solid-fuel rocket stages, developed and manufactured by a joint venture between Hercules Aerospace and Alliant Techsystems (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems). They were originally developed for use as all thre ...

, a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets *

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) Project Orion was a study conducted between the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA for the purpose of identifying the efficacy of a starship directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the ...

, a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

Space vehicles

* Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022 *

, two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft * ''Orion'', the Lunar Module used in the Apollo 16 mission * Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites * A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of

Telesat Telesat, formerly Telesat Canada, is a Canadian satellite communications company founded on May 2, 1969. The company is headquartered in Ottawa. History Telesat began as Telesat Canada, a Canadian Crown corporation created by an Act of Pa ...

* Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)

Other uses

Orion (dog) The Vargas tragedy was a natural disaster that occurred in Vargas State, Venezuela on 14–16 December 1999, when torrential rains caused flash floods and debris flows that killed tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands of homes, and le ...

, a rescue dog *

Orion (roller coaster) Orion is a steel roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Orion became the seventh giga coaster in the world when it opened to the public on July 2, 2020. It is the largest in ...

, a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US * Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker

Sean Thackrey Sean Haley Thackrey (July 9, 1942May 30, 2022) was an American winemaker based in the town of Bolinas in Marin County, California. Prior to winemaking, he was a director of an art gallery.Fisher, Lawrence M. (November 7, 1993)"Tiny Wineries Wi ...

* Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists

Common meanings

Arts and media

Fictional entities

Characters and species

Vessels

Literature

Music

Albums and long-form compositions

Songs

Other uses in music

Periodicals

Other uses in arts and media

Buildings

Companies

Arts and media

Electrical power and electronics

Food and beverage

Transportation and vehicles

Transport carriers

Vehicle manufacturers

Other companies

People

Places

United States

Elsewhere

Science and technology

Astronomy

Biology

Computing

Other technologies

Sports

Football (soccer)

Other sports

Transportation and military

Air

Sea

Military vessels

Other vessels

Space

Rockets

Space vehicles

Other uses

See also