Loral
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Loral may refer to:
Loral Corporation, contractor founded in 1948 in New York by William Lorenz and Leon Alpert as Loral Electronics Corporation, and several associated companies or technologies.
Loral Space & Communications, satellite communications company
Loral Vought, now part of Lockheed Martin
Space Systems/Loral, now known as Lanteris Space Systems
Loral 1300, a satellite bus developed by Space Systems/Loral.
Loral GZ-22, a non-rigid airship
5225 Loral, minor planet
Loral Langemeier, an American writer on finance
Loral O'Hara, a NASA astronaut candidate of the class of 2017
the adjective form of Lore (anatomy)
See also
Laurel (plant), an evergreen shrub whose sap, leaves, and fruit are highly-poisonous to humans, livestock, dogs, and other animals.
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