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LunAres Research Station

LunAres Research Station is a privately run space analog habitat in Piła, Poland, where crews of four to eight live in isolation to simulate Lunar or Martian missions.

Lunch box

A lunch box is a reusable container for carrying a midday meal from home to school or work, evolved from nineteenth-century metal worker's pails to plastic and insulated designs.

Lunchables

Lunchables, also known as Dairylea Lunchables, is an American brand of ready-to-eat meal kits launched nationally by Oscar Mayer in 1988 and now sold by Kraft Heinz.

Lunchly

Lunchly is a brand of prepackaged lunch kits launched in 2024 by YouTubers MrBeast, Logan Paul, and KSI, each pairing a Prime drink, a Feastables bar, and a food entree.

Lundbeck

Lundbeck, formally H. Lundbeck A/S, is a Danish pharmaceutical company headquartered in Valby, Copenhagen. Founded in 1915, it focuses on drugs for psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Lunnan Oil Field

Lunnan Oil Field (轮南油田) is an operating oil field on the northern rim of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang, China, discovered in 1988 and producing since 1990.

Lunokhod programme

The Lunokhod program was a Soviet series of robotic lunar rovers, the world's first planetary rovers: Lunokhod 1 landed in Mare Imbrium in 1970, Lunokhod 2 in 1973.

Lunskoye Oil and Gas Field

The Lunskoye Oil and Gas Field (Лунское месторождение) is an offshore gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk off Sakhalin Island, developed under Sakhalin-2 since 2008.

Luohuang power station

Luohuang power station (华能珞璜发电厂) is a 2,640 MW coal-fired power station in Luohuang, Chongqing, China, owned by Huaneng Power International and built between 1991 and 2007.

Luojiazhai Gas Field

The Luojiazhai Gas Field (罗家寨) is a high-sulfur natural gas field in the northeastern Sichuan Basin, China, developed by PetroChina and Chevron and fully operational since 2016.

Luoyang Mengjin power station

Luoyang Mengjin power station (神华国华孟津发电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Mengjin, Luoyang, Henan, China, whose Unit 2 became Henan's first ultra-low-emission coal unit in 2015.

Luoyang Shouyangshan power station

Luoyang Shouyangshan power station (大唐洛阳首阳山发电厂) is a coal-fired power site in Yanshi, Luoyang, Henan, China, hosting two plants: the retired Datang station and the operating 1,200 MW China Resources plant.

Luoyuan Bay power station

Luoyuan Bay power station (神华福州罗源湾港电) is a coal-fired power station in Lianjiang, Fujian, China, owned by China Shenhua Energy, operating two 1,000 MW units since 2021 and 2022.

Lurgi gasifier

The Lurgi gasifier is a pressurized, dry-ash, moving-bed coal gasifier developed by Lurgi in Germany in the 1930s, used commercially since 1940 and still operating at Sasol's Secunda complex in South Africa.

Lush (company)

Lush, also known as Lush Cosmetics, is a British cosmetics retailer founded in Poole, Dorset, in 1995, known for inventing the bath bomb and its packaging-free "naked" products.

Lusigang power station

Lusigang power station (also written Lvsigang; 大唐国际吕四港发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Qidong, Jiangsu, China, commissioned in 2010 with a 2,640 MW first phase.

Luton Airport

London Luton Airport, also known as Luton International Airport, is an international airport in Luton, Bedfordshire, about 30 miles north of central London, opened in 1938.

Lutyens' Delhi

Lutyens' Delhi, sometimes called Imperial Delhi, is the area of New Delhi designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker as British India's imperial capital, inaugurated in 1931.

Lützerath

Lützerath was a hamlet in Erkelenz, Germany, demolished in January 2023 for lignite mining after climate activists occupied it for over two years, becoming a symbol of the coal-versus-climate conflict.

Luxair

Luxair, legally Société Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aérienne, is the national airline of Luxembourg. Founded in 1961, it flies from Luxembourg Airport and carried over 2.6 million passengers in 2024.

Luxeed R7 (智界)

The Luxeed R7 (智界 R7) is a mid-size electric coupe SUV from Chery and Huawei, launched in China in 2024 as a Tesla Model Y rival.

Luxeed V9

The Luxeed V9 (智界V9) is a full-size luxury MPV built by Chery under the Luxeed brand, a venture with Huawei's HIMA, launched in May 2026.

Luxembourg Palace

The Luxembourg Palace (Palais du Luxembourg) is a 17th-century palace in Paris, built for Marie de Médicis by Salomon de Brosse and home of the French Senate since 1799.

Luxgen n7

The Luxgen n7, developed as the Foxtron Model C, is a battery-electric mid-size crossover SUV built by Yulon Motor in Taiwan, credited as the first domestically produced electric passenger car made there.

Luxonis

Luxonis is a spatial AI company that builds the OAK (OpenCV AI Kit) cameras and DepthAI software platform, combining stereo depth and on-device neural inference.

Luxor Las Vegas

Luxor Las Vegas, also known as Luxor Hotel and Casino, is a 30-story black glass pyramid-shaped hotel and casino on the southern Las Vegas Strip, opened in 1993.

Luxottica

Luxottica is an Italian eyewear company founded by Leonardo Del Vecchio in 1961, which owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, and Persol, and since 2018 has formed part of EssilorLuxottica.

Luxury car

A luxury car, or luxury automobile, is a premium passenger vehicle defined by brand heritage, engineering performance, interior quality, and technology, typically priced from about $30,000 to beyond $200,000.

Luyu Oil Pipeline

The Luyu Oil Pipeline, also called the Ripuluo pipeline (日濮洛管道), is a Chinese crude oil pipeline from Rizhao Port in Shandong to Luoyang in Henan, commissioned in 2021.

Luzhou Chuannan power station

Luzhou Chuannan power station, also called the Fangshan plant, is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Luzhou, Sichuan, China, with two 600 MW units commissioned in 2007 and 2008.