Daedalus (disambiguation)
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The character Daedalus
from Greek mythology has lent his name to many other things:
Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artisan.-Family:...
from Greek mythology has lent his name to many other things:
- Daedalus (crater)Daedalus (crater)Daedalus is a prominent crater located near the center of the far side of the Moon. The inner wall is terraced, and there is a cluster of central peaks on the relatively flat floor...
, on the far side of the Moon - 1864 Daedalus1864 Daedalus1864 Daedalus is a Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on March 24, 1971 by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
, an asteroid - Daedalus (planet)COROT-7cCOROT-7c is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star COROT-7, located approximately 489 light years away in the constellation Monoceros...
/CoRoT-7 c, an extrasolar planet - DædalusDaedalus (journal)Dædalus is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It is published by MIT Press on behalf of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Each issue addresses a theme with essays on the arts, sciences, and humanities. Special...
, the quarterly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Project DaedalusProject DaedalusProject Daedalus was a study conducted between 1973 and 1978 by the British Interplanetary Society to design a plausible unmanned interstellar spacecraft. Intended mainly as a scientific probe, the design criteria specified that the spacecraft had to use current or near-future technology and had to...
, an interstellar spaceship project by the British Interplanetary Society - Daedalus PublishingDaedalus PublishingDaedalus Publishing is an American publisher of erotic literature based in Los Angeles, California. Subjects range from leathersex to alternative sexual practices, such as BDSM...
, an American publisher - Dedalus BooksDedalus BooksDedalus Books is a British publishing company specialising in European literature. As stated on their website, Dedalus specialises in "its own distinctive genre, which we term distorted reality, where the bizarre, the unusual and the grotesque and the surreal meld in a kind of intellectual fiction...
, a British publisher - HMS Daedalus (1826)HMS Daedalus (1826)HMS Daedalus was a nineteenth century warship of the Royal Navy. She was launched as a fifth-rate frigate of 46 guns in 1826, reduced to 20 guns in 1840....
, a nineteenth century fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate - The Royal Naval air station in Lincolnshire, England, which became RAF CranwellRAF CranwellRAF Cranwell is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire close to the village of Cranwell, near Sleaford. It is currently commanded by Group Captain Dave Waddington...
- RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), a (now closed) Royal Naval air station near Portsmouth, England
- MIT DaedalusMIT DaedalusThe MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's Daedalus was a human-powered aircraft that, on 23 April 1988, flew a distance of 71.5 mi in 3 hours, 54 minutes, from Iraklion on the island of Crete to the island of Santorini...
, a human-powered aircraft - Daedalus Reef, in the Red SeaRed SeaThe Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
- "Daedalus", a song by ThriceThriceThrice is an American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998. The group was founded by guitarist/vocalist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi while they were in high school....
- The Daedalus Project, an MMORPG research project by Nick Yee
- Daedalus (band)Daedalus (band)Daedalus is an Italian progressive metal band.Their music contains influences from different musical genres, among them rock, progressive rock, heavy metal, classical music, jazz, electronic music, ambient.- History :...
, an Italian progressive metal band - Daedalus (yacht)Daedalus (yacht)Daedalus is a maxi-catamaran, that participated to many great offshore races.It has served under three different names :* Formule Tag, skippered by Mike Birch* Enza New Zealand, skippered by Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston...
, a trimaran, also named Enza
In fiction
- One of the two carrier ships later attached to the SDF-1 (after the failed moon fold which, instead, dropped them outside Pluto's orbit) in the animated series RobotechRobotechRobotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...
. - Daedalus (Ariadne)Daedalus (Ariadne)Daedalus is a fictional inventor created by David E. H. Jones for his Ariadne column in the New Scientist and The Guardian, and which is currently featured in Nature.Daedalus's imaginary inventions are solidly grounded in science —...
, a fictional inventor created by New Scientist columnist David E. H. Jones - "Daedalus" (Enterprise episode)Daedalus (Enterprise episode)"Daedalus" is the name of the 86th episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise. "Daedalus" first aired on January 14, 2005, on the American television network UPN...
, a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise - Daedalus (novel)Daedalus (novel)Daedalus is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released in December 2003.-Synopsis:October 5, 2140. After a half-dozen years of research and testing, Starfleet prepares to launch its first warp 5 vessel -- Daedalus...
, a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, not based on the episode above - Daedalus's ChildrenDaedalus's ChildrenDaedalus's Children is a Star Trek: Enterprise novel, which was released in May 2004.-Synopsis:Crippled by a freak accident, Enterprise has crossed over into an alternate universe -- and into the middle of a civil war set off by a brutal warlord who has used technology stolen from the Daedalus to...
, the subsequent novel to the above - Daedalus class starship, in the Star Trek series
- Daedalus class battlecruiserDaedalus class battlecruiserIn the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and its sequels, several types of starships are introduced in the later seasons. In the series, they are the product of several years' worth of research into alien technologies discovered on off-world missions to other planets visited via the...
, in the Stargate series - Space Shuttle Daedalus, in the movie Space CowboysSpace CowboysSpace Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite...
- Daedalus, an artificial intelligence in the computer game Deus ExDeus ExDeus Ex is an action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm Inc. and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000, which combines gameplay elements of first-person shooters with those of role-playing video games...
- Daedalus, the main antagonist of the videogame Resistance 2Resistance 2Resistance 2 is a science fiction first person shooter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in North America on November 4, 2008, Japan on November 13, 2008, and in Europe on November 28, 2008...
- Daedalus Yumeno, a character in the anime Ergo ProxyErgo Proxyis a science fiction suspense anime television series, produced by Manglobe, which premiered across Japan on 25 February 2006 on the WOWOW satellite network. It is directed by Shukō Murase, with screenplay by Dai Satō et al.. Ergo Proxy has been described as dark science fiction mystery with...
- Daedalus, an evil wizard and main antagonist in The Mighty HerculesThe Mighty HerculesThe Mighty Hercules was an animated series based loosely on the Greek mythological character of Heracles, under his Roman Mythology name, Hercules. It was created in 1962 and then debuted on TV in 1963 and ran until 1966 coinciding with the sword and sandal genre of films popular at the...
animated series from the 1960s
See also
- Stephen DedalusStephen DedalusStephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographical novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's Ulysses...
, a pen name and a character of James Joyce - Daedelus (musician)Daedelus (musician)Alfred Darlington is a music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Daedelus pioneered using the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. He is a part of the groups Adventure Time and The Long Lost...
- Daedalus HowellDaedalus HowellDaedalus Howell is an American writer, filmmaker and media personality, who leads FMRL, the Future Media Research Lab, a Berkeley, CA-based media venture that produces branded entertainment and transmedia....
is an American author, filmmaker and media personality.