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 Or ...

, a hunter in Greek mythology *

Orion (spacecraft) Orion (officially Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin and the E ...

, 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. Publication history Orion first appeared in ''New Gods'' #1 (February 1971), and was created by writer/artist Jack Kirby. Jack Kirby era Orion originally appear ...

, 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-pla ...

'' * 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 Gail Brewer-Giorgio is an American author whose works have speculated about the possibility that singer Elvis Presley may have faked his death in August 1977. Origin of conspiracy theory work Giorgio wrote a novel, ''Orion'', in 1978, which descr ...

* ''Orion and King Arthur'', a 2012 novel series by

Ben Bova Benjamin William Bova (November 8, 1932November 29, 2020) was an American writer and editor. During a writing career of 60 years, he was the author of more than 120 works of science fact and fiction, an editor of ''Analog Science Fiction and Fac ...

* '' 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 Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive ...

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) '' by Dead Can Dance * "Orion", a song on the album ''

Stormwatch Stormwatch may refer to: * ''Stormwatch'' (album), a 1979 album by Jethro Tull * Stormwatch (comics), a fictional superhero team in the Wildstorm and DC Universes * ''Storm Watch'', a 2002 American science fiction film See also * Storm warning ...

'' 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

Other uses in music

Orion Records Orion Records was a primarily classical LP album, 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 W ...

(1960s–'80s), a classical record label * Jimmy "Orion" Ellis, 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 * '' 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 Miss Riboet's Orion, originally known as the Orion Opera, was a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in the 1920s and early 1930s. Established by the husband and wife team Tio Tek Djien and Miss Riboet, the company tr ...

(1925–42), a theatrical troupe active in the Dutch East Indies

Buildings

* The Orion (skyscraper) in New York City * Orion Assembly, a General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan *

Orion Building The Orion Building is a tall high rise residential building on Navigation Street, Birmingham 5, England. Construction of the tower began in 2004 with demolition of the previous building on the site, and was completed in 2007. As part of the dev ...

, a residential building in Birmingham, England * Orion, the movie theater of Finland's National Audiovisual Archive *

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 ...

, Bangalore, India; a shopping mall

Companies

Arts and media

Orion Pictures Orion Pictures (legal name Orion Releasing, LLC) is an American film production and distribution company owned by Amazon through its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsidiary. In its original operating period, the company produced and released films ...

, an American film production company, now a subsidiary of MGM *

Orion Publishing Group Orion Publishing Group Ltd. is a UK-based book publisher. It was founded in 1991 and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson the following year. The group has published numerous bestselling books by notable authors including Ian Rankin, Michael Connell ...

, a UK-based book publisher *

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

Electrical power and electronics

* Orion Electric, 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 syst ...

, a Hungarian company * Orion Energy Systems, an American power technology company *

Orion New Zealand Limited Orion New Zealand Limited (Orion) is an electricity distribution company, based in Christchurch, New Zealand. The company was formed under its current name in December 1998. Orion is owned by Christchurch City Council (89.3%) and Selwyn Distri ...

, a New Zealand electricity distribution company

Food and beverage

Orion Breweries is the fifth-largest beer brewery in Japan, headquartered in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture. The company commands approximately 1% of the Japanese beer market, and controls 60% of the beer market on Okinawa. History Founded in 1957 in Nago, Okin ...

, 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 Confectioner ...

, 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, a Seychelles airline *

Orion Expedition Cruises Orion Expedition Cruises (OEC) is a former Australian-based luxury expedition cruise line that operated the German-built 103 m, 4000 gross tonne in Australasian and Antarctic waters. History Founded by Australian businesswoman Sarina Bratton ...

, an Australian cruise line * Orionair, 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, an American company * Orion Corporation, 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 Vesani ...

(born 1980), Polish musician * Jimmy "Orion" Ellis (1945–1998), American rockabilly singer

Places

United States

* Orion, Alabama, 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-T ...

, a village ** Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois ** Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois *

Orion, Wisconsin Orion is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 628 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Orion and Twin Bluffs are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, th ...

, a town ** Orion (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Orion Township, Michigan * Orion Township, Minnesota

Elsewhere

* Orion, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Orion, Bataan, the Philippines, a municipality * Orion, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, a commune *

Orion, Queensland Orion is a locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Orion had a population of 87 people. Geography The Dawson Highway The Dawson Highway is a state highway in Queensland, Australia. It runs for between G ...

, 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 The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae and is visible to the naked eye in the ni ...

, in the constellation

Biology

* ''Orion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles *

Orion (grape) Orion is a white wine grape variety of German origin. It was created by Dr. Gerhardt Alleweldt (1927-2005) at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grape Breeding in Siebeldingen in 1964, by crossing the ''Vitis vinifera'' variety Optima with the hy ...

, a white wine grape variety * ''

Historis odius ''Historis odius'', the orion cecropian, is a species of crescents, checkerspots, anglewings, etc. in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. Distribution This species can be found in North America.The MONA or Hodges number for ''Historis odius'' ...

'', the Orion, a butterfly in the genus ''Historis''

Computing

ORION (research and education network) The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is a high-speed optical research and education network in Ontario, Canada. It connects virtually all of Ontario's research and education institutions including every university, most co ...

, 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 D- ...

, used in network-attached storage * Ferranti Orion, a mid-range mainframe computer introduced in 1959 * HLH Orion, a series of minicomputers produced in the 1980s * Orion Application Server, a Java EE application server * Orion quantum computing system, developed by D-Wave Systems * 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), a large laser installation in the UK * Orion (space telescope), two research instruments on crewed 1970s Soviet spacecraft

Sports

Football (soccer)

* A.D. Orión, a Panamanian football club * Orión F.C., a Costa Rican football club * Orion F.C., a Scottish football club

Other sports

* Goyang Orion Orions, 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 warfare, anti-submarine and maritime patrol aircraft, maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed Corporation, Lockh ...

, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants *

Lockheed Model 9 Orion The Lockheed Model 9 Orion is a single-engined passenger aircraft built in 1931 for commercial airlines. It was the first airliner to have retractable landing gear and was faster than any military aircraft of that time. Designed by Richard A. vo ...

, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931 *

Aurora Flight Sciences Orion The Orion is a Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Aurora Flight Sciences. Background Work on the Orion began in 2006, when the U.S. Army funded it as a hydrogen-fuelled “high-altitude, long-loiter” (HAL ...

, a long-endurance uncrewed aircraft * Bristol Orion, a cancelled two-shaft turboprop aero engine developed by Bristol Siddeley * Kronshtadt Orion, Russian UCAV drone

Land

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

Space

Rockets

* Orion (rocket), 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 Mar Chiquita is a coastal lagoon in the southeast province of Buenos Aires in eastern Argentina. It is located by t ...

, an Argentine sounding rocket * Orion (rocket stage), 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 t ...

, a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

Space vehicles

, NASA crew vehicle first flown in 2022 * Orion (space telescope), two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft * ''Orion'', the Lunar Module used in the

Apollo 16 Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth human spaceflight, crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to Moon landing, land on the Moon. It was the second o ...

mission *

Orion (satellite) Orion, also known as Mentor or Advanced Orion, is a class of United States spy satellites that collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) from space. Operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and developed with input from the Centr ...

, 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), 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 Wit ...

* Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the

Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Cat ...

and other white nationalists