Helios

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Helios is the personification of the sun in Greek mythology. It may also refer to:

Arts & literature

Literature

• Helios, character in the anime Sailor Moon
• Helio (comics), character in the Marvel Universe
• Helios (Helios Eclipse character), from Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialiized in Gempak
• Victor Helios, from Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein's alias

Music

• The Helio Sequence, indie electronica/shoegazer band
• Helio Alves (born São Paulo, 1966), jazz pianist and son of pianists
• Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture

Video games

• Helios, a boss in the videogame Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Helios, an AI in the computer game Deus Ex, the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
• Helios, a "persona" in the Playstation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment

Business & industry

• Helios, former German motorcycle brand made by BMW
• Helios (cinemas), multiplex cinema operator in Poland
• Helios (lens brand), former brand of camera lenses, made in the USSR

Aviation

• Helio Courier, light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
• Helio Aircraft Company, aircraft manufacturing company
• Helios Airways, former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
  • Helios Airways Flight 522, Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
• Helios Prototype, series of NASA solar- and fuel cell system-powered unmanned aircraft/planes

Electronics

• Helio (wireless carrier), U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
• HeliOS, Unix-like computer operating system
• Helios AG, former German electrical engineering company based in Cologne

Military

• USS Helios (ARB-12), World War II repair ship

Science

• Heliotropism, diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun

Space

• Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
• 895 Helio, minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
• Helios (propulsion system), nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
• Sun, star

Sports & recreation

• Helios, a professional wrestler also known as Ricochet
• FC Helios Kharkiv, football (soccer) team from Ukraine
• KK Helios Domžale, basketball club from Slovenia
• Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver in the Indy Racing League series
• Hélio Gracie (1913-2009), co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

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