Vela
Vela or Velas may refer to: Astronomy Vela (constellation), a constellation in the southern sky (the Sails) Vela (Chinese astronomy) Vela Pulsar Vela X-1, a pulsing, eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system Places Vela Bluff, Antarctica Vela, Dolj, Romania Vela (Ilidža – Sarajevo), Bosnia and Herzegovina Velas, Maharashtra, India Ships CMA CGM Vela, a container ship in service since 2008 USNS Vela (T-AK-89), US Army port repair ship Vela-class submarine, of the Indian Navy INS Vela (S40), in service 1973–2010 Technology Project Vela, a system developed by the United States to monitor compliance with the Partial Test Ban Treaty Vela (satellite), a series of satellites launched by the United States to monitor nuclear testing Vela incident, an international incident, in which a Vela satellite is thought to possibly have observed a nuclear test Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA), a data logging tool used in education People Given name Vela Jiménez (fl. 882–883), Count of Álava Vela Ladrón (fl. 1136–1174), Spanish nobleman Vela Manusaute, Niuean writer and director Vela Ovéquiz (fl. 1065–1085), count in the Kingdom of Galicia Vela Peeva (1922–1944), Bulgarian partisan Vela Velupillai (born 1947), Sri Lankan-American economist Surname Alejandro Vela (born 1984), Mexican footballer Alexandra Vela, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician