Galileo (disambiguation)

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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was a scientist and philosopher.

Galileo may also refer to:

Aerospace

  • Galileo (satellite navigation), a global navigation satellite system
  • Galileo project to send a probe to Jupiter
    • Galileo (spacecraft), the probe itself
  • Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, an astronomical telescope
  • Project Galileo, an educational astronomy resource
  • Galileo Regio, a feature of Jupiter's moon Ganymede
  • Galileo Observatory, two NASA atmospheric and ionospheric research planes, also used for airborne astronomy

Companies

  • Galileo Games, a role-playing games publisher
  • Galileo Industries, an aerospace company
  • Galileo Records, a Switzerland-based record label

Computing

  • Galileo (operating system), an Acorn Computers project
  • Galileo (supercomputer), a supercomputer in Italy
  • Galileo GDS, a reservation system
  • Georgia Library Learning Online (GALILEO), a virtual library
  • Intel Galileo, a hobby-oriented development board
  • Galileo, a release of the Eclipse software development environment
  • Galileo, a codename for version 3.0 of the Windows CE operating system
  • Galileo, a RCS platform from Hacking Team

Films and television

  • Galileo (1975 film), an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo
  • Galileo (1968 film), a biographical film by Liliana Cavani
  • Galileo (Japanese TV series), a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo
  • Galileo (German TV series), a science program
  • "Galileo", an episode of The West Wing
  • Galileo: The Space Awakens, a program broadcast by tvN in South Korea

Music

  • "Galileo" (song), a 1992 single by the Indigo Girls from Rites of Passage
  • "Galileo", a single by GG Allin
  • "Galileo", a song by Amy Grant from Heart in Motion
  • "Galileo", a song by Mice Parade from Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips
  • "Galileo (Someone Like You)", a song by Declan O'Rourke, covered by other artists
  • "Galileo", a song by Puscifer from Money Shot
  • "Galileo", a song by Kep1er from their 2023 EP Magic Hour

Schools

Other uses

  • Galileo (horse), an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Galileo (magazine), a science fiction magazine
  • Galileo (planet), an exoplanet also known as 55 Cancri b
  • Gallileo (skyscraper), a high-rise building in Frankfurt
  • Galileo (Star Trek), a fictional spacecraft on Star Trek
  • Galileo (unit), a unit of measurement
  • Galileo (vibration training)
  • Camp Galileo, California
  • Galileo thermometer
  • Galileo, a rocket in Rocket Ship Galileo
  • Galileo, a yacht by Aegean Yacht
  • Galileo, a character from Power Players
  • The Galileo Project, a science project to search for ET traces near Earth and investigate UAP/UFOs

People with the given name

  • Galileo Chini (1873–1956), Italian decorator, designer, painter, and potter
  • Galileo Ferraris (1847–1897), Italian physicist and electrical engineer

See also

  • Galileo Galilei (disambiguation)
  • Galilean (disambiguation)
  • Galileu, a science magazine
  • Life of Galileo, a 1940 play by Bertolt Brecht
  • "My Galileo", a song by Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest
Topics referred to by the same term
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