Altair (disambiguation)
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Altair is the name of a star in the Aquila constellation. The name was derived from an Arabic phrase meaning "bird" or "the flying".
It may also refer to:
- New Age uses
- A "planet" with higher "etheric vibrations"--described by Francis Younghusband as home to a Christlike "World-Leader" whose spiritual influences guide spiritual evolution on the earth.
- A system with numerous planets featured in the Star Trek series.
- A solar system in the space simulation computer game Descent: FreeSpace — The Great War
- Altair IV is a fictional planet in the film Forbidden Planet
- The Third Planet from Altair, a book in the Choose Your Own Adventure series
- Altair III, a planet in the play Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure
- A planet in the space computer game Frontier: Elite II
- Altair (Stargate) a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 television series.
- Characters in popular culture
- Altair is one of the main characters in the game Bomberman 64.
- Altair of Coloni is a minor character in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
- Lachette Altair is a character in Sakura Wars.
- Altaïr, the main character in the video games Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles.
- A bird like enemy in the game Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
- Altair is a form taken by Kamen Rider Zeronos in the Japanese TV show Kamen Rider Den-O.
- Altair is a major antagonist in the animated Japanese TV Show Gear Fighter Dendoh.
- Other popular culture
- Altair is one of the four chariot horses driven to victory by Judah Ben-Hur in the Ben-Hur novel and films.
- Altair is the first town visited and the home of the rebels in the video game Final Fantasy 2.
- Altair is Balthier 's starting weapon in Final Fantasy XII
- D-Sword Altair is a katana appearing in the Japanese TV show Dekaranger.
- Geographical locations
- Altair, São Paulo, a city in Brazil
- Altair, Texas
- Al-Tair Island, Arabic: جزيرة جبل الطير, a volcanic island in the Red Sea
- Vessels
- The Altair spacecraft, the planned lander spacecraft component of NASA's Project Constellation
- Lockheed Altair, an aircraft
- USS Altair was the name of a number of ships of the United States Navy
- USNS Altair, a non-combat United States Naval ship
- The Altair Voyager, a Chevron oil tanker originally named for Condoleezza Rice
- A schooner designed by William Fife
- F/V Altair - King crab vessel lost in the Bering Sea, Valentines Day 1983, along with sister-ship F/V Americus, with a loss of 14 men (7 on each vessel). Homeported in Anacortes, WA.
- Technology
- An amplifier manufactured by Krell Industries
- MITS Altair 8800, one of the first hobbyist/home/personal microcomputers; it was sold as electronic kits through Popular Electronics magazine. See also Altair BASIC, Altair bus
- MITS Altair 680, based on the Motorola 6800 microprocessor.
- X-248 Altair, a rocket engine manufactured by Allegany Ballistics Lab, used in the Delta rocket, Vanguard rocket and Scout rocket
- A long range radar antenna at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll
- Altair (satellite), a series of 5 geosynchronous Russian relay satellites
- Altair (spacecraft), a manned Lunar Lander currently under development.
- Others
- Altair Engineering (shortly Altair), distributed computing consulting and development company
- Altair Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company that is developing mobile WiMAX silicon solutions optimized for handsets devices.
- Altair Aviation / Altair Airlines, a defunct aviation company
- Operation ALTAIR is the Canadian Forces maritime contribution to the U.S.-led coalition anti-terrorist campaign known as Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
- A track from the album Tales from the Twilight World
- Altair Publishing Australia, specialising in science fiction and fantasy based fiction; and Altair, a magazine published by them
- Altair Publishing, a British academic publisher