Altair (disambiguation)

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 (film) 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

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
• 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
• 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)