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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 1966 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
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
- Altair in fiction, the use of the star Altair or its solar system 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
Fictional characters
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 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
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 (born 1938), nickname Altair, Brazilian Football player
- Altaír Jarabo (born 1986), Mexican actress
Technology
- Al-Ta'ir, 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 United States Navy ships
- USNS Altair (T-AKR-291), later SS Altair (T-AKR-297), a cargo ship of the United States 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
Other uses
- Altair Design, a range of geometric design patterns published as colouring books, originally developed by Roger Burrows and Ensor Holiday
- 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).
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