Magellan
Encyclopedia
Magellan may refer to:
- Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" ....
, a Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world - Magellan (band)Magellan (band)Magellan is a progressive metal/rock band from California, United States, formed by the two brothers Trent Gardner and Wayne Gardner in 1985. The band has had a number of well known guest musicians, such as Ian Anderson , Joey Franco , and Tony Levin...
, a progressive rock band - Magellan (search engine), a forerunner of the Excite web portal
- Lotus MagellanLotus MagellanLotus Magellan was a groundbreaking DOS-based desktop search package, conceived and developed by Bill Gross and released in the 1980s by Lotus Development Corporation, most famous for Lotus 1-2-3....
, a file manager software - Magellan AerospaceMagellan AerospaceMagellan Aerospace Corporation is a Canadian manufacturer of aerospace systems and components. Magellan also repairs and overhauls, tests, and provides aftermarket support services for engines, and engine structural components. The company's business units are divided into the product areas of...
, a Canadian aerospace manufacturer - Magellan FundMagellan FundThe Fidelity Magellan Fund is a US-domiciled mutual fund from the Fidelity family of funds. It is perhaps the world’s best known actively managed mutual fund...
, a mutual fund offered by Fidelity Investments - Magellan NavigationMagellan NavigationMagellan Navigation, Inc. is a producer of consumer and professional grade global positioning system receivers. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering centers in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces aftermarket automotive GPS units,...
Inc, a maker of GPS equipment - Magellan Data and Mapping StrategiesMagellan Data and Mapping StrategiesMagellan Data and Mapping Strategies is a political polling firm based in Louisville, Colorado that provides data and information services to Republican Party candidates and conservative political organizations, as well as serving public affairs firms and businesses...
, a political polling firm that serves Republican Party candidates and organizations - Magellan class battleship, a fictional class of battleship in the Gundam universe
See also
- Magalhães, the Portuguese form of the name
- Magallanes (disambiguation), the Spanish form of the name
- Strait of MagellanStrait of MagellanThe Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego...
- Magellan probeMagellan probeThe Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus using Synthetic Aperture Radar and measure the planetary gravity...
, a NASA unmanned space mission to Venus - Magellan TelescopesMagellan telescopesThe Magellan Telescopes are a pair of 6.5 m diameter optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The two telescopes are named after the astronomer Walter Baade and the philanthropist Landon T...
at Las Campanas, Chile - Giant Magellan TelescopeGiant Magellan TelescopeThe Giant Magellan Telescope is a ground-based extremely large telescope planned for completion in 2018. It will consist of seven diameter primary segments, with the resolving power of a primary mirror and collecting area equivalent to one...
in Chile - Magellan Explorer, a file managerFile managerA file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files are: create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, search/find, and modify file attributes, properties...