Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation.

Altair may also refer to:

Organizations

  • Altair Airlines, a regional airline that operated out of Philadelphia, Pa., US, from 1967 to 1982
  • Altair Semiconductor, a developer of 4G cellular communication semiconductors
  • Altair Nanotechnologies Inc., manufacturer of energy storage systems
  • Altair Engineering, an American product design and development, engineering software and cloud computing software company
  • 4th Army Aviation Regiment "Altair", Italy

Entertainment

  • Altair, a 1956 drama film
  • Altair: A Record of Battles, a Japanese manga series
  • Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, an album by La Dispute

Fiction

Fictional characters

  • Altaïr Ibn-LaʼAhad, a character in the Assassin's Creed video game series
  • Altair, a character in the video game Bomberman 64
  • Altair the Black Knight, a character in the anime series Gear Fighter Dendoh
  • Ratchet Altair, a character in the Sakura Wars universe
  • Altair, a Mecha in the series Zegapain
  • Altair, a form taken by the Japanese television character Kamen Rider Zeronos
  • Altair, the name of one of Sheik Ilderim's horses in Ben Hur
  • Altair, a mechanical bakugan in Bakugan new vestroia
  • Altair, the name of a dragon in the video game Spyro The Dragon
  • Altair, the main antagonist of the anime Re:Creators

Other uses in fiction

  • Altair, a location in the Final Fantasy II video game
  • Altair IV, the planet on which the film Forbidden Planet is set
  • Altair 4, a planet with almost no air, in Stephen King's Science Fiction book The Tommyknockers

Places

  • Altair, São Paulo, a city in Brazil
  • Jabal al-Tair Island, an island in the Red Sea
  • Altair, Texas, a town in Colorado County, Texas, US
  • Altair (Building), Colombo, Sri-Lanka

People

  • Altair Gomes de Figueiredo (1938–2019), nickname Altair, Brazilian Football player
  • Altaír Jarabo (born 1986), Mexican actress
  • Altaír Tejeda de Tamez (1922–2015), Mexican writer

Technology

  • Al-Ta'ir (satellite), an Iraqi satellite whose fate remains unknown
  • Luch (satellite), a series of Russian relay satellites also known as Altair
  • Altair 8800, known as the microcomputer that sparked the microcomputer revolution
  • Altair BASIC, a BASIC interpreter for the microcomputer
  • Altair (rocket stage), a rocket engine used in several anti-satellite weapons

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Vehicles

  • Altair (spacecraft), a lunar lander
  • USS Altair, several US Navy ships
  • USNS Altair (T-AKR-291), later SS Altair (T-AKR-297), a cargo ship of the US Navy's Military Sealift Command
  • Lockheed Altair, an aircraft
  • Altair (yacht), a schooner designed by William Fife<!--keep link only if first link red-->
  • Beriev Be-200 or Beriev Be-200 Altair, a multipurpose amphibious aircraft
  • Piper PiperJet Altaire, a single-engined very light jet
  • Altair (ship), Mexican oceanographic research vessel

Other uses

  • Operation ALTAIR, a Canadian military operation
  • Altair, a planet central to the New Age spiritual beliefs of Francis Younghusband
  • Marine Scientific Research Institute of radioelectronics or MNIIRE Altair design bureau, developer of naval SA missile systems and radars

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  • ALTAIR, a radar tracking station on Roi-Namur island in the north part of the Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands
  • "Altair 4", a song by Blind Guardian on the album Tales from the Twilight World
  • Altair magazine, an Australian science fiction magazine edited by Robert N. Stephenson (ran seven issues, the last being a double issue #6/7)

See also

  • Altar (disambiguation)