* Atlas Games ( company ), a publisher of role-playing and card games

* Atlas Comics ( 1950s ), the company that evolved into Marvel Comics

* Atlas Corporation, an architectural company

* Atlas Media Corporation, a non-fiction entertainment company based in New York City, USA

* Atlas Press ( tool company ) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the largest supplier of machine tools to the hobbyist market in the middle of the 20th century

* Atlas Telecom, a worldwide communications company

* Atlas Van Lines, a moving company

* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003

* Western Atlas, US company, subsequently Atlas Wireline and Baker Atlas

* Tele Atlas, a Dutch mapping company

The company acquired Atlas Chemical Industries Inc., a major US competitor, in 1971.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engines powered the Space Shuttle, and the company also supplies booster engines for Delta II rockets and boosters and upper stage engines for Atlas III and V and Delta IV rockets.

These businesses included medical technology company Atlas Development Corporation and several computer-networking companies Xylan ( later Alcatel ), Netcom Systems ( later Spirent Communications ), Ixia Communications, j2 Global Communications, and Tekelec, as well as video-game publisher THQ, and software company Digital Insight.

Polar and its sister company, Atlas, also do extensive work for the U. S. Air Force ’ s Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

In its heyday it was the company town in which the employees of the Atlas Powder Company lived.

In 1909, Atlas petitioned county courts to change the alliance into a borough, reportedly because the change would make it easier for the company to send and receive mail.

The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

The company, Morgan Knitting Mills, Inc, grew into one of the largest employers in the area, second only to the Atlas Powder Company.

Cement for the Empire State Building and Panama Canal was created at the Atlas Portland Cement Company in the nearby unincorporated company town of Ilasco.

At the beginning of the 1930s BVD was purchased by the Atlas Underwear company located in Piqua, Ohio.

In the coming fiscal year additional quantities of Atlas, Titan, and Polaris missiles also will be procured.

Survivability of our strategic forces ( Polaris, mobile and hardened Minuteman, hardened Atlas and Titan, and airborne Skybolt ) means that it will take some time, perhaps weeks, to destroy a strategic force.

Heavy variants of Angara will be simpler and cheaper than Proton ( and like the new Atlas V rocket, will not use hypergolics ; instead, it will use the same RP-1 fuel as that used on the Soyuz rocket ).

The Bird Atlas 2007-2011 will combine breeding and winter surveys across the entire UK and Ireland, involving the BTO, Birdwatch Ireland, and the Scottish Ornithologist's Club, in order to produce a new atlas.

However all Atlas Blue flights will operate under the IATA code 8A.

It is not, as noted in the Atlas of Venezuela: A Spatial Image ( Atlas de Venezuela: Una imagen espacial, also known as El Atlas de Petróleos de Venezuela ), an ecosystem of " paleodunas ", literally ' old dunes ,' formed in an environment with a much drier climate than the current one, but a mechanism of dune formation that acts only in the dry season since the lowering of the water level of the Orinoco at the rivers ' lowest point, especially that of those that originate in the llanos, extensive beaches of fine sand are left behind, that the trade winds very quickly will transfer to the southeast, forming what now constitutes el Parque Nacional Santos Luzardo ( the Santos Luzardo National Park ), which takes its name from one of the main characters in the famous novel Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos.

As part of this work a new 3, 000 seater arena will also be built to compliment the existing Atlas Arena.

The next DMSP launch will be of the F18 satellite, scheduled for launch from Vandenberg aboard an Atlas V on October 18, 2009.

The unmanned Atlas V rocket launched the two space probes towards the moon, where they will provide a 3-D map and search for water in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope.

The mission will explore a permanently shadowed region of a lunar pole by crashing the spent Centaur rocket upper stage of the Atlas V launch vehicle into a dark crater.

The NASA funds are intended to accelerate development of a manned orbital spacecraft ( Space Vehicle ) and launch escape technology which can be used for New Shepard and the Space Vehicle, with substantial additional development funding expected to be provided by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. The funds will also be used to accelerate the development and testing of the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine for the Reusable Booster System which will be used in a later phase to launch the Space Vehicle to orbit ( the first flights of the Space Vehicle will use the Atlas V rocket ).

The final phase of the project will see the lions released into a National Park in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Three-dimension representations are already available in Japan and Western Europe ; people at the company's U. S. headquarters in Lebanon, New Hampshire, near Dartmouth College, expected in August 2009 that by the beginning of 2011, devices based on Tele Atlas data will be able to depict the surroundings in photo-realistic detail.

Every issue of our periodical will therefore include one or more map supplements, and their design will guarantee a continuous and easily accessible supplement in easy-to-manage form with special regard for those who own Stielers Hand-Atlas, Berghaus ’ s Physical Atlas, and other map publications of the ( Perthes ) Institute.

She will pose as Max's aunt to make the pair look like tourists, while in reality they will be trying to identify all seven Moroccan CIA operatives in order to ferret out the mole who has recently infiltrated the Atlas network, a secret branch of the CIA.

" On June 5, 2006, the organization announced that they " have decided to use The Atlas Society as our official name, which will help us promote our ideas to Rand readers as well as to the general public, while reserving The Objectivist Center name for our more academic and scholarly activities.

Atlas may also refer to:

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

* UNIVAC 1101, also known as the Atlas

** UNIVAC 1103, also known as the Atlas II

* Atlas, a fictional character from Marvel Comics, also known as Erik Josten ( formerly a member of the Thunderbolts )

* Atlas of Electoral Systems of the World Colour-coded world maps showing the electoral systems used by every democratic country in the world, also available with more details as tables of text.

It also is the flagship of the The Protea Atlas Project, run by the South African National Botanical Institute.

*** Hesperides ( nymphs of the West, daughters of Atlas ; also had attributes of the Hamadryads )

*** Pleiades ( daughters of Atlas and Pleione ; constellation ; also were classed as Oreads )

" In her novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, she also emphasizes the central importance of productive work, romantic love and art to human happiness, and dramatizes the ethical character of their pursuit.

At the time, Finn was also the drummer in the band Love Battery, who had recently changed record labels from Sub Pop to Atlas Records, an A & M subsidiary.

Atlas ' daughter Calypso would also bear Odysseus two sons, Nausithoos and Nausinous.

He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged, which receives several mentions in the chronicles.

According to Plato, the first king of Atlantis was also named Atlas, but that Atlas was a son of Poseidon and the mortal woman Cleito.

Convair also introduced the first U. S. operational intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas.

An Atlas Air EP was announced for 1 November as a vinyl / digital only release in aid of Warchild, also featuring the Heligoland leftover track, RedLight, plus a remix by Warp artist, Clark.

He is also known to have written a book about a spurge found in the High Atlas which he named Euphorbia after his personal physician.

In Greek mythology, Iapetus (), also Iapetos or Japetus (), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father ( by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia ) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race.