Pegasus
Pegasus (ancient Greek Πήγασος Pēgasos , Latin Pegasus, rarely Pegasus ) stands for:
Proper name
- Pegasus (mythology) , a winged horse, in Greek mythology the child of the sea god Poseidon and the gorgon Medusa
- in heraldry a heraldic animal, see horse ( heraldic animal)
- Pegasus (genus) , a genus of winged steed
- Pegasus (constellation) , a constellation
- Pegasus (band) , a Swiss band
- Pegasus (rocket) , an American launcher
- Pegasus (satellite, 1965) , a series of three US satellites
- Pegasus (satellite, 2017) , an Austrian earth observation satellite
- Pegasus (airplane) , crashed on October 8, 1970 while attempting to land in Antarctica, which is why this runway was named after the broken down airplane
- Boeing KC-46 “Pegasus”, a tanker aircraft based on the Boeing 767-2C
- Pegasus (drone) , an MQ-4 Triton drone modified for the German Armed Forces
- Pegasos (Computer) , a CHRP desktop computer from Genesi
- Pegasus (Shareware CD) , a formerly known German shareware series on CD-ROM
- Pegasus (malware) , malware (spyware) used to spy on iOS operating systems
- Pegasus (business award) , a business award from an Upper Austrian daily newspaper
Part of the name
- Bristol Pegasus , name of a 9-cylinder radial engine manufactured by Bristol Airplane Co. Ltd
- Operation Pegasus , code name for several military operations
- Pegasus AFC , an English football club
- Pegasus Airlines , a Turkish airline
- Pegasus Award , a prize for filk music
- Pegasus Bay , a bay in New Zealand
- Pegasus Bridge , a bridge in France
- Pegasus bicycles, a trademark of the Zweirad -kauf-Genossenschaft (ZEG)
- Pegasus Imaging Corporation , a manufacturer of imaging toolkits
- Irseer Pegasus , a German literary event as well as the name of a literary prize awarded there
- Pegasus-class (1973) , a series of US Navy speedboats
- Pegasus-Klasse (2016) , a series of container ships of the shipping company MSC
- Pegasus Mail , an email program
- Pegasus Motorcars , former American automobile manufacturer
- Pegasus Mountains , mountains in Palmerland, Antarctica
- Pegasus Prize , a prize for private theaters in Hamburg
- Pegasus Records , an English rock music label
- Pegasus Spiele , a board game publisher
- Pegasus Verlag , a publishing house in Wetzlar
- Pegasus - free time in the saddle
- Pegasus. Berlin contributions to archeology and history
- Pegasus Foundation , a Swiss foundation for people with a mental disability
- Pegasus dwarf galaxy , two star galaxies near the Andromeda Galaxy
- HMS Pegasus :
- z. B. HMS Pegasus (1897) , the Royal Navy's sixth HMS Pegasus . Sunk off Zanzibar by a German warship in 1914
- HMS Ark Royal (1914) , a British warship converted in 1914 from a merchant ship to an aircraft mothership for seaplanes, renamed Pegasus in 1934
- Rolls-Royce Pegasus , a jet engine made by Rolls-Royce
- Roller coaster:
- Pegasus - the YoungStar roller coaster , a family roller coaster of the German Europa-Park theme park
- Pegasus (Efteling) , a wooden roller coaster from the Dutch leisure park Efteling
- Pegasus (Mount Olympus Water & Theme Park) , a family wooden roller coaster at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, USA
Others
Pegasus is the academic nickname for the following people:
- Pegasus I (1652): Valentin Andreas Möllenbrock (1623–1675), German physician and member of the Leopoldina
- Pegasus II. (1669): Johannes Christian Mack (1634–1701), German physician and member of the Leopoldina
- Pegasus III. (1674): Ehrenfried Hagendorn (1640–1692), German physician and member of the Leopoldina
See also:
Wiktionary: Pegasus - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
