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Saturn IB

The Saturn IB was a two-stage NASA rocket, first flown in 1966, that tested the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit and later launched crews to Skylab.

Saturn Ion

The Saturn Ion was a compact car sold by GM's Saturn brand from 2003 to 2007, replacing the S-series and later central to GM's 2014 ignition-switch recall.

Saturn L-Series

The Saturn L-Series, also known as the Saturn LS, was a midsize sedan and station wagon sold by GM's Saturn division from 2000 through 2005, based on the Opel Vectra.

Saturn S-Series

The Saturn S-Series was a line of sedans, coupes, and wagons Saturn built in Spring Hill, Tennessee, from 1991 through 2002, with about 2.7 million sold.

Saturn Sky

The Saturn Sky was a two-seat roadster sold by Saturn from 2007 to 2010, built alongside the Pontiac Solstice and also sold as the Opel GT.

Saturn V

The Saturn V, also known as the Saturn V rocket, was NASA's three-stage heavy-lift launch vehicle that sent Apollo crews to the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

Saturn Vue

The Saturn Vue was a compact crossover SUV built by GM's Saturn division from 2002 through 2010, Saturn's first SUV, rivaling the Ford Escape and Honda CR-V.

Saturno Oil and Gas Field

Saturno is a conventional oil and gas field in ultra-deep water in Block 31 offshore Angola, discovered in 2003 and producing through the FPSO PSVM since 2012.

Satya N. Atluri

Satya N. Atluri (1945–2023) was an aerospace and mechanical engineer known for creating the MLPG meshless methods and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

Satya Nadella (సత్య నారాయణ నాడెల్లా)

Satya Nadella, also known as Satya Narayana Nadella, is an Indian-American executive who has led Microsoft as CEO since 2014 and as chairman since 2021.

Sau-Hai Lam

Sau-Hai Lam, known as Harvey Lam, was a Macao-born engineer who spent his career at Princeton University and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

SAUC-E

SAUC-E (Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe) was Europe's first underwater robotics competition, challenging university teams to build autonomous underwater vehicles performing missions with no human control, first held in 2006.

Saucer

A saucer is a small, shallow, round dish on which a cup stands; the word first named a sauce dish, with the cup sense from about 1700.

Saudi Aramco (أرامكو السعودية)

Saudi Aramco (أرامكو السعودية), formally the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is the state-owned national oil company of Saudi Arabia, tracing its origins to a 1933 oil concession.

Saudi Binladin Group

Saudi Binladin Group is a Jeddah-headquartered Saudi construction conglomerate founded by Mohammed Binladin in 1931, best known for expanding the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca and Medina.

Saudi CP

The Saudi CP (Saudi Aramco Contract Price) is the monthly price Saudi Aramco sets for propane and butane, quoted FOB Ras Tanura, and the dominant LPG benchmark for Asia.

Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority

The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), Saudi Arabia's national authority for data and AI, was established in Riyadh by royal order in August 2019.

Saudia (الخطوط الجوية السعودية)

Saudia, legally the Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation, is the state-owned flag carrier of Saudi Arabia. Founded in 1945, it flies to about 100 destinations and joined SkyTeam in 2012.

Saugatuck River Bridge

The Saugatuck River Bridge, officially the William F. Cribari Memorial Bridge, is an 1884 wrought iron swing bridge carrying Route 136 over the Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut.

Saunders-Roe SR.177

The Saunders-Roe SR.177 was a British 1950s project for a mixed-power interceptor combining a turbojet and rocket engine, developed for the RAF and Royal Navy and canceled before any flew.

Saunders-Roe SR.53

The Saunders-Roe SR.53 was a British prototype interceptor with mixed jet and rocket propulsion, built for the RAF and first flown in 1957 before cancellation.

Saurer

Saurer is a Swiss textile machinery group headquartered in Arbon, founded in 1853 as an iron foundry, that sells spinning and twisting machines under brands including Schlafhorst, Zinser, Autocoro, and Texparts.

Savage Arms

Savage Arms, also known as Savage Arms Company, is an American firearms manufacturer founded in Utica, New York, in 1894, best known for the Model 99 and Model 110 rifles.

Savage Mark II

The Savage Mark II is a bolt-action .22 rimfire rifle made by Savage Arms in Lakefield, Ontario, sold in many variants and known for accuracy at a low price.

Savage Model 99

The Savage Model 99 is an American hammerless lever-action rifle with a rotary spool magazine, produced by Savage Arms from 1899 until the late 1990s in over a dozen cartridges.

Savas Tay

Savaş Tay is a Turkish-born American-based systems biologist and bioengineer, professor and institute director at the University of Chicago, known for his 2010 Nature paper on digital single-cell immune signaling.

Save It (campaign)

Save It was a British government energy conservation campaign launched in January 1975, best remembered for its red stamp logo and slogan "Energy sense is common sense".

Saviem

Saviem, short for Société Anonyme de Véhicules Industriels et d'Équipements Mécaniques, was a French manufacturer of trucks, buses, and military vehicles from 1955 to 1980.

Savion

Savion, LLC is an American utility-scale solar and energy storage developer headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 2019 from Tradewind Energy's solar unit, it has been wholly owned by Shell since 2021.

Savitzky–Golay filter

The Savitzky–Golay filter is a digital smoothing filter that fits a polynomial to a moving window of data, introduced by Savitzky and Golay in 1964.