Daedalus (disambiguation)

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Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artisan in Greek mythology.

Daedalus may also refer to:

Astronomy and space

• Daedalus (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon
• 1864 Daedalus, an asteroid
• COROT-7c or Daedalus, an extrasolar planet
• Daedalus Patera, volcanic depression on Io

Engineering

• Project Daedalus, an interstellar spaceship project by the British Interplanetary Society conducted between 1973 and 1978
• MIT Daedalus, a human-powered aircraft
• Daedalus Flight Pack, turbine powered flight pack, invented by British inventor Richard Browning in 2015

Publications

• Daedalus (journal), the quarterly journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Dedalus Books, a British publisher (not to be confused with Daedalus Books, a United States book seller)

Military

• HMS Daedalus (1826), a nineteenth-century fifth-rate Royal Navy frigate
• RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), a (now closed) Royal Naval air station near Portsmouth, England
• Daedalus, RAF Cranwell, the Royal Naval air station in Lincolnshire, England
• The Order of Daedalians, a fraternal and professional order of American military pilots

Fictional characters and objects

• Daedalus (Ariadne), a fictional inventor created by New Scientist columnist David E. H. Jones
• Deadalus (comics), a fictional supervillain that appears in the NEW-GEN comic books
• Daedalus class starship, in the Star Trek series
• Daedalus class battlecruiser, in the Stargate series
• Dedalus Diggle, a member of the Order of The Phoenix, in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Stephen Dedalus, the main character in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, as well as an important character in Joyce's Ulysses

Creative works

• "Daedalus" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2005 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Daedalus (novel), a 2003 Star Trek: Enterprise novel
• Daedalus's Children, the 2004 sequel novel to Daedalus'
• The Daedalus Encounter, a 1995 interactive movie puzzle adventure starring Tia Carrere for the 3DO gaming system

People

• Daedelus (musician) (born 1977), a musician who mixes IDM-style rhythms with arrangements from the 1930s and 1940s
• Daedalus Howell (born 1972), an American author, filmmaker and media personality
• Daedalus, the pen name of British chemist and author David E. H. Jones

Other

• Daedalus (band), an Italian progressive metal band
• Daedalus (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1794 Epsom Derby
• Daedalus, a cryptocurrency wallet for the Cardano platform
• Daedalus (trace fossil), an ichnogenus
• Daedalus (yacht), a trimaran, also named Enza
• Daedalus Books, a United States book seller (not to be confused with Dedalus Books, a British publisher (England publishes, the U.S. sells))
• Daedalus Reef, a reef between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in the center of the Red Sea
• The Daedalus Project, an MMORPG research project by Nick Yee

See also

• Dedalus (disambiguation)
• Daedaleopsis, a genus of fungi