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.

Altair in fiction

• 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