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Pinisi

Pinisi, also spelled phinisi, is the traditional two-masted, seven-sail rig of wooden vessels from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, built by Konjo shipwrights and inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.

Pink Line (Delhi Metro)

The Pink Line is Line 7 of the Delhi Metro, running from Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar and forming India's first fully operational ring metro line.

Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701

Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 was a repositioning regional jet flight, flown as Northwest Airlink, that crashed near Jefferson City, Missouri, on October 14, 2004, killing both pilots.

Pinnapuram hydroelectric plant

The Pinnapuram hydroelectric plant is a 1,680 MW closed-loop pumped storage station near Pinnapuram village in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India, developed by Greenko as the storage core of the IREP.

Pinnington solar farm

The Pinnington solar farm is an 825 MW photovoltaic power plant in Jack County, Texas, developed by Repsol and placed in commercial operation in May 2026.

Pino (robot)

Pino is a small biped humanoid robot developed in Japan between 1999 and 2001 by the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, built from low-cost parts and later released as an open platform.

Pinterest

Pinterest, operated by Pinterest, Inc. of San Francisco, is a visual discovery platform where users save and shop for ideas as images, videos, and products called Pins.

Pinyon Plain Mine

Pinyon Plain Mine, formerly Canyon Mine, is an underground uranium mine in the Kaibab National Forest near the Grand Canyon, Arizona, the state's only operating uranium mine since 2023.

Pio (AutoStore)

Pio, short for Product In/Out, is a standardized, subscription-based warehouse automation system built on AutoStore cube storage technology, launched by the Norwegian company AutoStore in 2021 for small and mid-sized businesses.

Pio Pio (toy)

Pio Pio, also written Pío Pío or Pollito Pío, is the name Spanish onomatopoeia for a chick's chirp gives to several unrelated chick- and bird-themed toys in Spanish-speaking markets.

Piombino FSRU

The Piombino FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit at the port of Piombino, Tuscany, feeding LNG into Italy's gas grid since July 2023.

Pioneer 1

Pioneer 1, also known as Able 2, was a US lunar probe launched in 1958, the first spacecraft launched under NASA, reaching a record altitude before reentering.

Pioneer 10

Pioneer 10, also known as Pioneer F, was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1972 that became the first spacecraft to fly past Jupiter and to leave the solar system.

Pioneer 11

Pioneer 11 was a NASA uncrewed space probe, sister to Pioneer 10, that flew by Jupiter in 1974 and became the first spacecraft to visit Saturn in 1979.

Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社)

Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社), formerly Pioneer Electronic Corporation, is a Japanese electronics maker founded in 1938, known for car navigation, audio, and world-first stereo and LaserDisc products.

Pioneer Pipeline (HF Sinclair)

The Pioneer Pipeline is a refined products pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from the Sinclair refinery, Wyoming, to North Salt Lake City, Utah, built in 1952.

Pioneer program

The Pioneer program was a series of United States uncrewed space missions, running from 1958 to 2003, that made the first visits to Jupiter and Saturn.

Pioneer Venus

Pioneer Venus was a NASA program of two spacecraft launched in 1978: an Orbiter, the first US spacecraft to orbit Venus, and a Multiprobe carrying four atmospheric probes.

Pioneer Venus Multiprobe

Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer 13 or Pioneer Venus 2, was a NASA spacecraft that dropped four probes into Venus's atmosphere on 9 December 1978.

Pioneer Venus Orbiter

The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also called Pioneer 12, was a NASA spacecraft that orbited Venus from 1978 to 1992, mapping the surface by radar and studying its upper atmosphere.

Pioneer Zephyr

The Pioneer Zephyr, also known as the Burlington Zephyr, was the first diesel-powered, stainless-steel streamlined train in the United States, built for the Burlington Railroad in 1934.

Pioneer-era flight instruction (pre-1914)

Pioneer-era flight instruction was the improvised and often dangerous process by which the first aviators learned to fly, with Wright students soloing after roughly four hours of practice.

Pioneering Spirit

Pioneering Spirit is the world's largest ship by gross tonnage, an Allseas catamaran built in South Korea in 2014 to install, remove, and lift entire offshore platforms.

Piovan Group

Piovan Group is an Italian multinational maker of automation systems for storing, conveying, and processing polymers and food powders, headquartered in Santa Maria di Sala near Venice.

Pip (package manager)

Pip, also known as Python pip or Pip3, is the standard package installer for Python, installing packages from the Python Package Index and resolving their dependencies.

Pipe (fluid conveyance)

A pipe is a hollow cylinder, usually rigid, that conveys fluids such as water, gas, sewage, or oil; pipes are sized by nominal diameter, unlike tubes.

Pipe bomb

A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device in which explosive material sealed inside a metal or plastic pipe builds pressure that shatters the casing into lethal fragments.

Pipe jacking

Pipe jacking is a trenchless construction method in which hydraulic jacks push prefabricated pipes through the ground between shafts, typically for sewers and utility crossings under roads and railways.

Pipe network analysis

Pipe network analysis, also known as pipe networks, calculates flow rates and pressures in interconnected pipe systems; its governing equations are nonlinear and solved iteratively, as in software like EPANET.

Pipe-laying ship

A pipe-laying ship, also called a pipelay vessel, is a specialized marine vessel that welds and lowers steel pipeline onto the seabed as it advances along the route.