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Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen (1913–2001) was a Turkish aviator, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the world's first female combat pilot, flying for the Turkish Air Forces from 1936.

Sabine Pass LNG Terminal

The Sabine Pass LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, owned by Cheniere Energy, with six trains and about 30 million tonnes annual capacity.

Sabine Pass LNG Terminal power station

The Sabine Pass LNG Terminal power station is the on-site power plant of the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, using gas turbines for self-generated electricity.

Sabine power station

Sabine power station is a natural gas-fired steam-turbine power station in Orange County, Texas, owned by Entergy Texas, in service since 1962 and being partially replaced by the Orange County Advanced Power Station.

Sabiya power plant

The Sabiya power plant, also written Subiya, is Kuwait's largest cogeneration power and water station, opened in 1998 with about 7,000 MW of capacity in northern Kuwait.

Sable Offshore

Sable Offshore is a Houston-based independent oil and gas company that bought ExxonMobil's Santa Ynez Unit off Santa Barbara County, California, in 2024 and restarted production shut since a 2015 pipeline spill.

Sabot (firearms)

A sabot, from the French wooden shoe, is a carrier that fires a sub-caliber projectile from a larger firearm; it seals the bore and discards after leaving the muzzle.

Sabotage and sandbagging evaluations

Safety evaluations testing whether frontier AI models deliberately underperform on capability tests (sandbagging) or covertly subvert oversight, code, or other agents, introduced by Anthropic in October 2024.

Sabre

A sabre is a single-edged sword with a curved blade, historically used by cavalry for cutting and slashing from horseback and now one of three fencing weapons.

SABRE (rocket engine)

SABRE (Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) is a British hybrid rocket engine by Reaction Engines that breathes atmospheric air up to Mach 5 before switching to onboard oxygen.

Sabre Corporation

Sabre Corporation is an American travel technology company headquartered in Southlake, Texas, that operates one of the three dominant global distribution systems for airline bookings and sells software to airlines.

Sabriya field

The Sabriya field is an onshore oil and gas field in northern Kuwait, operated by Kuwait Oil Company, that with Raudhatain supplies about a quarter of Kuwait's crude.

Saburō Sakai (坂井三郎)

Saburō Sakai (坂井三郎) was a Japanese naval aviator and Imperial Japanese Navy flying ace credited with 28 to 64 aerial victories in World War II.

SAC solder

SAC solder is a family of lead-free solder alloys of tin, silver, and copper that replaced lead solder in electronics after RoHS took effect in 2006.

SAC-46 (handgun)

The SAC-46, code named Flying Dragon, was a single-shot pistol developed for the OSS in World War II that fired a poison dart propelled by a CO2 cartridge.

Saccharification

Saccharification is the step in starch and biomass processing where heat and enzymes convert polymeric carbohydrates into simple fermentable sugars, chiefly glucose, often combined with fermentation in one vessel.

Sacha field

The Sacha field is an oil field in Ecuador's Oriente Basin, discovered in 1969 and operated by EP Petroecuador; it is the most productive oil field in Ecuador.

Sachio Matoba

Sachio Matoba (的場 幸雄) was a Japanese metallurgist (1899–1987) who spent his career at Tohoku University studying oxygen activity in molten steel, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Sachs Covered Bridge

Sachs Covered Bridge, also known as Sauck's Bridge, is a historic covered bridge over Marsh Creek near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, used by both armies in the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg.

Sachsenring

The Sachsenring is a German motorsport circuit near Hohenstein-Ernstthal in Saxony, best known as the home of the German motorcycle Grand Prix, a MotoGP round.

SACMI

SACMI (Società Anonima Cooperativa Meccanici Imola) is an Italian cooperative industrial group headquartered in Imola, founded in 1919 by nine mechanics, and a world-leading supplier of ceramic machinery.

Sacramento International Airport

Sacramento International Airport (SMF), opened in 1967 as Sacramento Metropolitan Airport, is the primary passenger airport for Sacramento and Northern California, 10 miles northwest of the city.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, known as SMUD, is a community-owned, not-for-profit electric utility serving most of Sacramento County and parts of Placer and Yolo counties.

Sacré-Cœur, Paris

Sacré-Cœur, French for Basilica of the Sacred Heart, is a white Romano-Byzantine basilica designed by Paul Abadie on Montmartre in Paris, begun in 1875 and consecrated in 1919.

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas

Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2023) of three 12th-13th century Hoysala temples at Belur, Halebidu, and Somanathapura, Karnataka, India, known for stellate soapstone temples, hyper-real sculpture, and artists' signatures.

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo

Sacred Heart Cathedral (Katedrala Srca Isusova), Sarajevo Cathedral: Neo-Gothic Catholic cathedral by Josip Vancaš, built 1884-1887, modeled on Notre-Dame de Dijon; largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of the Archbishop of Vrhbosna.

Sacrificial anode

A sacrificial anode is a piece of more electrochemically active metal, such as magnesium, zinc, or aluminum, connected to a structure so it corrodes instead, protecting pipelines and ship hulls without external power.

Sacyr

Sacyr, founded in 1986 as Sociedad Anónima de Caminos y Regadíos, is a Spanish infrastructure company in Madrid known for transport, social, and water concessions worldwide.

Sadara

Sadara Chemical Company is a Saudi petrochemical joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Dow, established in 2011 in Jubail with over $20 billion invested and 26 integrated plants.

Sadd el-Kafara

Sadd el-Kafara is the ruin of an Old Kingdom Egyptian dam in the Wadi el-Garawi, one of the world's oldest known large dams, built around 2700 to 2600 BC.