Vega (disambiguation)

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Vega is a star in the constellation Lyra.

Vega or VEGA may also refer to:

Aerospace

• Vega (crater), a lunar crater
• Vega (rocket), an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace, jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency
• Vega Aircraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed
• Vega program, a series of space missions
• Vega Space, a space company based in Hertfordshire, UK, now part of Telespazio VEGA UK
• Lockheed Vega, an American monoplane produced 1927-1931
• Percival Vega Gull, a British aircraft produced 1935-1939
• Slingsby Vega, a British glider
• Stern ST 87 Vega, a French homebuilt aircraft design

Places

• Vega, Alberta, Canada
• Vega, Norway
• Vega, Haninge, Sweden
• Vega, California, United States
• Vega, Texas, United States
• Vega Island, Antarctica

Ships

• Vega (ship), a Swedish steamship built in 1872
• HMS Vega, several ships of the British Royal Navy
• SS Vega, various steamships
• USS Vega, several ships of the United States Navy
• Vega (schooner), a Finnish schooner; see Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union

Art, entertainment, and media

Fiction

Fictional places

• Vega (planet), a planet in the works of Isaac Asimov

Fictional characters

• Vega (Street Fighter), a Street Fighter character, named Balrog in Japan
• King Vega, a Ufo Robot Grendizer character
• Vega Obscura, a Zoids: New Century Zero character
• M. Bison, a Street Fighter character, named Vega in Japan
• Vega, a Gear Fighter Dendoh character
• King Vega, a Ufo Robot Grendizer character
• General Vega, a Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun character
• James Vega, a character in the Mass Effect series
• Tori Vega and Trina Vega, characters in the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious
• Vic and Vincent Vega, Brothers from the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs
• VEGA. an artificial intelligence in Doom (2016 video game)

Music

Artists

• Vega (band), a Turkish alternative rock band founded in 1996
• Vega (singer) (born 1979), born Mercedes Mígel Carpio, Spanish singer/songwriter
• Suzanne Vega (born 1959), American singer-songwriter
• VEGA (UK rock band) a melodic rock/AOR band from the United Kingdom.

Venues

• Vega, Copenhagen, a concert hall in Copenhagen

Works

• Suzanne Vega (album), the 1985 eponymous debut album by Suzanne Vega

Radio

• Vega (radio network), a now-defunct Australian network now known as smoothfm)
• YLE Radio Vega, a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in Swedish

Organisations

• Vega Company, a musical instrument manufacturer
• Vega Group, a Russian special forces unit
• Vega Industries, a New Zealand marine light manufacturer
• Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, a Russian company specializing in military surveillance radio systems
• Vega Sicilia, Spanish winery in the Ribera del Duero
• Vega Telecommunications Group, a Ukrainian telecommunications provider
• Facel Vega, a French car manufacturer in operation 1954-1964
• Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance, an international development group

Educational institutions

• Vega (South Africa), a private university in South Africa

People

• Vega Tamotia (born 1985), Indian actress
• Vega (surname), a list of people with the name Vega

Science, technology and medicine

• Vega machine, an electrodiagnostic device
• Vertebrate and Genome Annotation Project (VEGA), a biological database

Other uses

• Vega (grape), a white Italian wine grape
• Chevrolet Vega, an American subcompact automobile produced in the 1970s
• Vega or grass valley, a meadow located within a forested and relatively small drainage basin
• Vega, in finance a measure of sensitivity to volatility; see Greeks
• Vega, a JavaScript charting library based on D3.js

See also

• Bega (disambiguation)
• De la Vega (disambiguation)
• Vegan (disambiguation)
• Vegas (disambiguation)
• WEGA, a radio company, acquired by Sony in 1975