Astro

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Astro may refer to:

Entertainment and media

• Astro (South Korean band), a South Korean boy band
• Astro (UB40) (born 1957), member of the British reggae band UB40
• Astro (Chilean band), a Chilean indie rock band
• Astro (Japanese band), a Japanese noise music project
• Astro (rapper) (born 1996), contestant on the first season of the U.S. version of The X Factor in 2011
• "Astro", a song by The White Stripes from their 1999 debut The White Stripes
• Astro (The Jetsons), a dog character in the cartoon The Jetsons

Satellites

• ASTRO (satellite), the Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations vehicle, an American technology demonstration satellite
• Project names of astronomy satellites by ISAS (now JAXA)
  • ASTRO-A or Hinotori (satellite), a solar X-ray astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-B or Tenma, an X-ray astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-C or Ginga (satellite), an X-ray astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-D or Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA), an X-ray astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-E, and ASTRO-EII or Suzaku (satellite), an X-ray astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-F or Akari (satellite), formerly known as IRIS, an infrared astronomy satellite
  • ASTRO-G or VSOP-2, a canceled radio astronomy satellite project
  • ASTRO-H or Hitomi (satellite), formerly known as NeXT, an X-ray astronomy satellite

Science and medicine

• ASTRO (American Society for Radiation Oncology) or its annual conference
• the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory (AStrO), now the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Canada

• Astronomy
  • Astrobiology
  • Astrochemistry
  • Astro-geodetic methods, a group of important methods in geodesy, satellite techniques and astrometry
  • Astrometry
  • Astrophysics
  • Astropy

Sports and games

• Astro convention, a contract bridge bidding convention
• Astrodome, a sports venue in Houston, Texas, and the first home of the Houston Astros
• The Houston Astros, a Major League Baseball team

Television services

• Astro (television), a Malaysian subscription-based multi-channel satellite TV and radio service
  • Astro MAX, a former personal video recorder service for Astro (Malaysian satellite television)

Vehicles

• Chevrolet Astro, a "mid-size" van
• GMC Astro, a cabover tractor-trailer truck made by GMC from 1968–1988
• Astro-Gnome, an American automobile

Other

• Adobe Flash Player version 10
• Astrology
• Astro (Motorola), used to describe the digital voice radios produced by Motorola
• Astro navigation, celestial navigation, positional astronomy, navigating by the stars
• Astro yogourt, a Parmalat Canada product
• Astro Teller (born 1970), scientist and entrepreneur

See also

• Astra (disambiguation)
• Astros (disambiguation)