Pathfinder

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Pathfinder may refer to:

Aerospace

• Space Shuttle Pathfinder, an orbiter vehicle simulator for the U.S. Space Shuttle program
• LISA Pathfinder, a European Space Agency/NASA space probe launched in 2015
• Mars Pathfinder, a space exploration probe
• NASA Pathfinder, an unmanned solar-powered aircraft
• Uranus Pathfinder, a mission concept evaluated by the European Space Agency
• OTE Pathfinder, test article for the James Webb Space Telescope

Computing

• Path Finder, a Macintosh file browser
• Pathfinder (website)
• Pathfinder networks, a psychometric scaling method
• Java Pathfinder, a software testing tool
• Pathfinder (library science), a subject bibliography, often offered on library websites.

Entertainment

Military

• Pathfinder (military), a type of soldier
• Pathfinder (RAF), a military unit during the Second World War
• Pathfinder (USAAF), the World War II blind bombing force of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, first by the 482nd Bombardment Group (Pathfinder), and then by designated squadrons within each bomb group
• Pathfinders Company (Portugal), a Portuguese military unit
• Pathfinder Platoon, a British military unit
• HMS Pathfinder, several Royal Navy ships
• Pathfinder-class cruiser, a two-ship Royal Navy class
• USS Pathfinder, the name of several U.S. Navy ships
• Pathfinder-class survey ship, a class of U.S. Navy ship
• Piasecki 16H Pathfinder, an experiment series of helicopters produced in the 1960s for the US Army
• Pathfinder, nickname of the 8th Infantry Division (United States)
• Pathfinder Badge

Transportation

Businesses

• Pathfinder Energy Services, a division of Smith International
• Pathfinder Press, publisher of socialist literature
• Pathfinder Tours, a railtour company

Youth organizations

• Pathfinders (Girl Guides), a division of the Girl Guides of Canada
• Pathfinders (Seventh-day Adventist), a youth organization

Other uses

• John C. Frémont (1813–1890), military officer and explorer, nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
• Charter Arms Pathfinder, a revolver
• Pathfinder (library science), a subject bibliography
• Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming
• Pathfinder Dam, on the North Platte River, Wyoming
  • Pathfinder Reservoir, Wyoming
• Camp Pathfinder, a boys' camp in Ontario
• Pathfinder International, an American reproductive health organization
• Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station
• Pathfinder Parkway, an Oklahoma walking, jogging and biking trail
• Pathfinder Camera, made by Polaroid
• Housing Market Renewal Initiative, a UK programme, also referred to as Pathfinder
• Adenocaulon bicolor, a flowering plant in the daisy family known as Pathfinder
• Ulmus parvifolia 'Pathfinder'
• Milton Keynes Pathfinders, an American football team based in Milton Keynes, England

See also

• Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), Navy captain and oceanographer nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas"
• Pathfinder tendency, a group of socialist organizations
• Pathfinding, as in algorithms for finding a route
• Sakigake (translated into English as "Pathfinder" or "Pioneer"), Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft
• Sperrbrecher (German for "pathfinder"), a category of auxiliary warships used by the German Kriegsmarine during World War II
• Wolf pack Pfadfinder (German for "pathfinder"), a German World War II wolf pack in the Battle of the Atlantic
• Isogram, of which "pathfinder" is an example that can be used as a numerical cipher.