Altair (disambiguation)
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Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation.
It may also refer to:
- Altair (Stargate) a fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 television series.
- A system with numerous planets featured in the Star Trek series.
- 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 solar system in the space simulation computer game Descent: FreeSpace
- A planet in the space computer game Frontier:_Elite_II
- 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 the central character in the computer game Assassin's Creed by Ubisoft.
- Altair is one of the main characters in the computer 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.
- Geographical locations
- Altair, São Paulo, a city in Brazil
- Altair, Texas
- Vessels
- 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
- Technology
- An amplifier manufactured by Krell Industries Inc.
- 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
- 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
- A Soviet-made analog synthesizer. [1]
- Others
- Altair Engineering (shortly Altair), distributed computing consulting and development company
- 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
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