# 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

## 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)