Orion was accidentally killed either by Artemis or by Gaia.

Orion was Artemis ' hunting companion.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

The fifth French ship, Peuple Souverain, was attacked from either side by Defence and Orion and rapidly lost the fore and main masts.

Aboard the Orion, a wooden block was smashed off one of the ship's masts, killing two men before wounding Captain Saumarez in the thigh.

Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue, as Defence had lost its fore topmast and Orion was narrowly missed by an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle.

While a Mars mission was not specifically detailed, a plan to reach Mars based on utilizing the Orion spacecraft was tentatively developed for implementation in the 2030s.

The name is because the Asterism of Three Stars was originally composed of just three stars, all of them in the girdle of the Orion.

A " Soft Capture Docking Mechanism ", based on the docking adapter that was to be used on the Orion spacecraft, was installed during the last servicing mission in anticipation of this event.

The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los Angeles.

The technology of the Lockheed Electra airliner was also used in military aircraft, such as the P-3 Orion and the C-130 Hercules, using the Allison T56.

One of the few star groups mentioned in the Bible ( Job 9: 9 ; 38: 32 ; — Orion and the Pleiades being others ), Ursa Major was also pictured as a bear by the Jewish peoples.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

The email appeared to suggest that Griffin believed the only reasonable solution was to extend the operation of the shuttle beyond 2010, but noted that Executive Policy ( i. e., the White House ) is firm that there will be no extension of the shuttle retirement date, and thus no U. S. capability to launch crews into orbit until the Ares I / Orion system becomes operational in 2014 at the very earliest.

Project Orion was a study of this idea.

Work on this project was spearheaded by physicist Freeman Dyson, who commented on the decision to end Orion in his article, " Death of a Project ".

His drawing, the first such known of the Orion nebula, was published in Systema Saturnium in 1659.

Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.

Referred to throughout its run as The New Hollywood Squares, the program debuted on September 15, 1986 and was produced by Century Towers Television with Rick Rosner serving as executive producer and Orion Television as distributor.

In some versions, Orion tries to seduce Opis, one of her followers, and she killed him.

Orion needed just one broadside to reduce the frigate to a wreck, and Martin's disabled ship drifted away over the shoal.

The constellation Orion ( constellation ) | Orion is one of the most recognizable in the night sky.

His son George is a historian of science, one of whose books is Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957 – 1965.

* In the video games Master of Orion ( 1993 ), Master of Orion 2 ( 1996 ), Master of Orion 3 ( 2003 ), and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( 1999 ), neutronium is one of the strongest armor types.

* Orion P. Howe ( 1848 – 1930 ), Union drummer boy in American Civil War, and one of the youngest recipients of the U. S. Medal of Honor

* Orion, one of the 25 unlockable characters in Maxis's Action RPG Darkspore

In 2001, Toshiba signed a contract with Orion Electric, one of the world's largest OEM consumer video electronic makers and suppliers, to manufacture and supply finished consumer TV and video products for Toshiba to meet the increasing demand for the North American market.

Orion is one of very few interstellar space drives that could theoretically be constructed with available technology, as discussed in a 1968 paper, Interstellar Transport by Freeman Dyson.

In Renaissance iconography, the significance of Icarus depends on context: in the Orion Fountain at Messina, he is one of many figures associated with water ; but he is also shown on the Bankruptcy Court of the Amsterdam Town Hall-where he symbolizes high-flying ambition.

The most well known story of Oenopion is the one that deals with him receiving the famous giant hunter Orion as a guest, with Orion's subsequent attempt to violate his daughter.

The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features.

There has been speculation that the Mayans of Central America may have described the nebula within their " Three Hearthstones " creation myth ; if so, the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion, Rigel and Saiph, and another, Alnitak at the tip of the " belt " of the imagined hunter, the vertices of a nearly perfect triangle with Orion's Sword ( including the Orion Nebula ) in the middle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth, or, in ( the translation it suggests of ) an ancient one, the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation.

this will remain unchanged until an crewed US spacecraft like the Orion or one the Commercial Crew Development spacecraft is ready to use for the ISS – with the Chinese Shenzhou program being the only other program in the World with planned semi-regular crewed spaceflights.

The financially unstable Orion ventured into perilous swamps when E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, one of the studio's original investors, became impatient with the low rate of return on its 20 percent stake in the enterprise.

Orion got a fourth major shareholder one month later, when National Amusements, Inc., a Massachusetts-based chain of movie theaters, purchased 6. 42 percent of the company's stock.

As the knowledge of this act was not made public, younger robots continued to idolize these powerful new flying robots-until one such young robot, Orion Pax, was duped by Megatron into allowing him access to an energy storage facility.

It is one of the largest H II regions in the Local Group of galaxies ; at the galaxy's estimated distance of 2. 7 million light-years its longest diameter is roughly 1500 light-years ( 460 parsecs ), over 40 times the size of the visible portion of the Orion Nebula.

The planets differ from each other in terms of military or agricultural development ; at the start of a game each team has several planets under their control one of which is their homeworld, usually named after an actual planet in the Star Trek Universe ( such as Earth for feds, Romulus for roms, Orion for oris, Klingus for klis ).

Streamline Pictures stopped producing new anime releases in 1996, folding into Orion Pictures — which, in turn, would fold into MGM one year later, in 1997.

The nearest British ships, Swiftsure, Alexander and Orion, all stopped firing, closed their gunports and began edging away from the blazing ship in anticipation of the detonation of the enormous ammunition supplies stored on board.

On 6 and 7 December 1940 the Nazi German auxiliary cruisers Orion and Komet sank four merchant ships.

The initial Australian force consisted of ; three Royal Australian Navy ships, 500 special forces soldiers, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, C-130 Hercules transport aircraft and No. 75 Squadron RAAF ( which included 14 F / A-18 Hornet fighters ).

Master of Orion will sometimes produce random events which can be harmful or advantageous, such as discovery of ancient ships and technology, changes to planetary conditions that alter the planet's population or mineral richness, diplomatic blunders / assassination attempts, changes to research, industry or treasury production, planetary rebellion, space piracy and either viruses or a supernova event ( both of which require research from the affected planet to overcome ).

Major differences between Star Lords and Master of Orion include inferior graphics and interface, simpler trade and diplomacy, undirected research, a lack of safeguards to prevent players from building more factories than are usable and the use of transports rather than colony ships to colonize new planets.

Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology.

Orion, with other ships, dismasted and then sailed round her, firing continually until she surrendered.

* In the computer game Master of Orion II one of the weapons a player can use is a micro black hole generator, which is used to immobilize and destroy enemy ships.

The game averaged much fewer ships than the games of Master of Orion and other popular series, rarely having more than 30 ships allocated to any specific race ( the number of ships was dependent on the number of star systems the player controlled ).

To maximize his chances of catching the French, Bridport specifically ordered his fastest ships HMS Sans Pareil, HMS Orion, HMS Colossus, HMS Irresistible, HMS Valiant and HMS Russell, to break from the formation and lead the pursuit at 06: 30.