Orion Explained

Orion may refer to:

Common meanings

• Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
• Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology
• Orion (spacecraft), NASA crew vehicle first launched in 2022

Arts and media

Fictional entities

Characters and species

• Orion (character), 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
• 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
• 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, 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 (Vivier), a 1979 orchestral work by Claude Vivier
• Orion (Lacoste), an opera by the French composer Louis Lacoste
• Orion, a 2004 Philip Glass composition
• Orion, an album by the band she
• Orion & Pleiades (1984), a symphonic work by Toru Takemitsu

Songs

• "Orion" (Girl Next Door song)
• "Orion" (Mika Nakashima song)
• "Orion" (Metallica song), an instrumental piece on the album Master of Puppets
• "Orion", a song by 12012
• "Orion", a song in the boxed set Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) by Dead Can Dance
• "Orion", a song on the album Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
• "Orion", a 2017 non-album single by Kenshi Yonezu

Other uses in music

• Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
• Orion (singer) (Jimmy Ellis, 1945–1998), American singer
• Youth (musician) (Martin Glover, born 1960), British musician also known as Orion

Periodicals

• Orion (manga), by Masamune Shirow
• Orion (magazine), a magazine on nature, environment and culture
• Orion (1840s magazine), an American literary magazine that ran from 1842 to 1844
• ORiON, the journal of the Operations Research Society of South Africa
• , 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, 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
• Orion Mall, 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
• Orion Records (1960s–'80s), a classical record label
• Orion Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Louisville, Kentucky

Electrical power and electronics

• Orion Electric, a Japanese electronics company
• Orion Electronics, a Hungarian company
• Orion Energy Systems, 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 (chocolate), a Czech chocolate confectionery, subsidiary of Nestlé since 1999
• Orion Corporation (South Korean company), a South Korean confectionery company

Transportation and vehicles

Transport carriers

• Orion Airways, a UK airline that operated from 1979 to 1989
• Orion Air, a Seychelles airline
• Orion Expedition Cruises, 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, 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 (pharmaceutical company), a Finnish pharmaceutical company
• Orion Group (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerates
  • Orion Pharma (Bangladesh), a Bangladeshi pharmaceutical company
• Orion Group (recruitment company), Scottish international recruiting company

People

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

Places

United States

• Orion, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Orion, Illinois, a village
  • Orion Township, Fulton County, Illinois
  • Orion High School, in Orion, Illinois
• Orion, Wisconsin, 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, Australia, a village in the Central Highlands Region
• Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter
• Orion Arm, 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), 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

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, a Japanese baseball team

Transportation and military

Air

• Lockheed P-3 Orion, a maritime patrol aircraft, with several variants
• Lockheed Model 9 Orion, a passenger aircraft introduced in 1931
• Aurora Flight Sciences Orion, 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 based on the Ford Escort but with a larger boot and four doors
• 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

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), an Argentine sounding rocket
• Orion (rocket stage), a series of rocket motors used in the Pegasus rockets
• Project Orion (nuclear propulsion), a 1958 US nuclear pulse propulsion study project

Space vehicles

• Blok DM-03, a variant of the Russian upper stage rocket
• Orion (spacecraft), 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 mission
• Orion (satellite), a series of reconnaissance satellites
• A series of satellites operated by Orion Network Systems, now part of Telesat
• Orion 3, an off-course communication satellite (1999)

Other uses

• Orion (dog), a rescue dog
• Orion (roller coaster), a steel roller coaster at Kings Island, in Mason, Ohio, US
• Orion, the flagship wine of American winemaker Sean Thackrey
• Our Race is Our Nation, a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white nationalists

See also

• Arion (disambiguation)
• EURion constellation, anti-counterfeiting patterns integrated into various kinds of currency
• Exercise Orion (disambiguation)
• Orione (opera) (1653), by Francesco Cavalli
• O'Ryan
• Orion 1 (disambiguation)
• Orion 2 (disambiguation)
• Orion the Hunter (disambiguation)
• Project Orion (disambiguation)