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S5 0716+714

S5 0716+714 is a BL Lacertae object, a blazar whose jet pointed nearly at Earth produces a highly variable, featureless continuum. It was discovered in 1979.

S7 Airlines

S7 Airlines, also known as Sibir Airlines, is Russia's largest private airline, owned by Vladislav Filev's family and flying from Moscow Domodedovo and Novosibirsk Tolmachevo since its 1992 founding.

The S8 tension is a cosmological discrepancy: the cosmic microwave background implies a higher amplitude of matter clustering than weak gravitational lensing and galaxy surveys measure at low redshift.

S8000 Banderol (Бандероль)

The S8000 Banderol, also known as Бандероль, is a Russian low-cost subsonic cruise missile developed by Kronstadt JSC and used against Ukraine since spring 2025.

S8UL Esports

S8UL Esports: Mumbai-based Indian esports and content organization formed from the Team SouL and Team 8bit merger, co-founded by MortaL and 8bit Thug; four-time Esports Content Group of the Year and EWC Club Partner Program club.

S8YN

S8YN (황수연; legal name Hwang Soo-yeon) is a South Korean R&B singer and performance director at Dreamcatcher Company, a former Die.A Project member and Produce 101 contestant.

SA

SA is an ambiguous two-letter abbreviation most often standing for South Africa or Saudi Arabia, and historically for the German Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts). South Africa: Union 1910, apartheid 1948, democracy 1994. Saudi Arabia: founded 1932 by Abdulaziz.

Sa Aking Mga Kabata

Sa Aking Mga Kabata ("To My Childhood Companions") is a Tagalog poem on love of the native language, traditionally attributed to José Rizal at age eight in 1869 but now widely doubted: first printed in 1906 by Hermenegildo Cruz, with no surviving manuscript.

Sa Caleta Phoenician settlement

Sa Caleta is an early Phoenician settlement on the southwest coast of Ibiza, occupied for roughly half a century before its people moved to the bay where Ebusus grew.

Sa Dec

Sa Dec (Sa Đéc), city in Dong Thap province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam; provincial-level city since 2013 (5,981 ha, 152,237 people); famous for its late-19th-century flower village and as the setting of Duras's The Lover.

Sa Jae Hyeok

Sa Jae Hyeok (사재혁, also Sa Jae-Hyouk), South Korean weightlifter born 1985 in Hongcheon; 2008 Beijing Olympic middleweight (77 kg) gold on bodyweight tiebreak; 2005 world junior champion; 2012 DNF; 10-year KWF ban in 2016 for assault.

Sa Mesa Longa

Sa Mesa Longa, "the long table" in Sardinian, is a sandy beach in San Vero Milis, Oristano, on Sardinia's Sinis peninsula: ochre-pink sand, shallow clear water, a rocky reef, and a surf spot near Capo Mannu.

Oct 22, 2026

Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag

Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag ("In the Claws of Light") is a Tagalog social-realist novel by Edgardo M. Reyes about a provincial fisherman exploited in Manila.

Sa Pa

Sa Pa (Sapa) is a 1,500 m highland tourist town in Lào Cai Province, northern Vietnam, a French colonial hill station below Fansipan (3,147.3 m), Vietnam's highest peak, served since 2025 by Sa Pa ward and a planned airport.

SA Power Networks

SA Power Networks, formerly ETSA Utilities and renamed in 2012, is the monopoly electricity distributor for South Australia, serving about 900,000 customers through more than 88,000 kilometers of powerlines.

Oct 10, 2026

Sa Pussadevo

Sa Pussadevo was the ninth Supreme Patriarch of Siam, a Dhammayut monk at Wat Ratchapradit who led the Buddhist Sangha from 1893 until his death in 1899, the last patriarch before the Sangha Act of 1902.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (सा रे गा मा पा)

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (सा रे गा मा पा), Zee TV's long-running singing reality franchise named after the sargam syllables, judged for playback versatility; Shreya Ghoshal won in 2000; Hindi, Bangla, Tamil editions.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Telugu is a Telugu-language singing reality competition broadcast on Zee Telugu, part of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa franchise, with eighteen seasons by 2026.

Sa Sedda 'e sos Carros

Sa Sedda 'e sos Carros, a Nuragic village-sanctuary in the Lanaittu valley near Oliena, Sardinia (12th-9th century BC), known for its sacred spring with ram-head water spouts, ceremonial bath, and bronze-working deposits.

Sep 23, 2026

Sa Zhenbing

Sa Zhenbing (萨镇冰, courtesy name Dingming, 1859–1952) was a Chinese admiral who served the Qing dynasty, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic, ending his career as Governor of Fujian.

SA-1B

SA-1B, or Segment Anything 1 Billion, is an image segmentation dataset released by Meta AI in 2023, containing 11 million photos and 1.1 billion masks.

SA-SAGD

SA-SAGD (solvent-assisted steam-assisted gravity drainage) is a bitumen recovery process for oil sands that co-injects a hydrocarbon solvent with steam, cutting steam demand and emissions.

Šà.zi.ga

Šà.zi.ga (Sa.zi.ga), Akkadian nīš libbi, is a group of Mesopotamian incantations and rituals meant to recover male sexual desire, attested from the second millennium BC.

Oct 22, 2026

Sa'ad ad-Din II

Sa'ad ad-Din II (Saʻad al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt) was the last sultan of the Ifat Sultanate, who warred against Ethiopia and was killed at Zayla' around 1408–1409.

Sa'ar 5-class corvette

The Sa'ar 5-class corvette (Hebrew: סער) is a class of three corvettes serving in the Israeli Navy, built in the United States in the 1990s.

Sa'ar 6-class corvette

Sa'ar 6-class (Magen-class) corvettes: four German-built TKMS/German Naval Yards missile corvettes of the Israeli Navy, delivered 2020-2021, armed with Barak-8, C-Dome, and 16 anti-ship missiles to protect offshore gas platforms.