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, 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

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)