| ACS |
Attitude Control System |
| AIM |
Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere |
| APE |
Attitude Power Electronics |
| ATS |
Absolute Time Sequence |
| C&DH |
Command & Data Handling |
| CDE |
Cosmic Dust Experiment |
| CIPS |
Cloud Imaging & Particle Size Experiment |
| CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
| CVO |
Common Volume Observation (SOFIE & CIPS) |
| DMP |
Data Management Plan |
| DOY |
Day of Year |
| DPC |
Data Processing Centers - SOFIE (GATS), CIPS & CDE (LASP) |
| E/PO |
Educational and Public Outreach |
| EEPROM |
Electrically Erasable Read-Only Memory |
| EPS |
Electrical Power System |
| FC |
Flight Controller |
| FDF |
Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FlatSat |
Orbital Spacecraft Simulator |
| FOT |
Flight Operations Team |
| FOV |
Field of View |
| FSW |
Flight Software |
| FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
| GATS |
Gordley & Associates Technical Serivces |
| GMU |
George Mason University |
| GN |
Ground Network |
| HU |
Hampton University |
| LASP |
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics |
| MAP |
Mission Archive Plan |
| MOC |
Mission Operations Center (LASP) |
| NCEP |
National
Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| Net CDF |
Network Common Data Form |
| NLC |
Noctilucent Clouds |
| NLTE |
Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
| NRL |
Naval Research Lab |
| NSSDC |
National Space Science Data Center |
| NSTA |
National Science Teacher Association |
| NTNU |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| OBC |
On-Board Computer |
| OOMP |
On Orbit Mission Planning |
| PDC |
Project Data Center (HU) |
| PMC |
Polar Mesospheric Clouds |
| POC |
Payload Operations Centers - SOFIE (GATS), CIPS & CDE (LASP) |
| RA |
Resident Archive |
| RAM |
Random Access Memory |
| RW-Z |
Reaction Wheel, Z-axis |
| SDC |
Science Data Center |
| SDS |
Science Data System |
| SN |
Space Network |
| SOFIE |
Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment |
| SSA |
Sun Sensor Array |
| TCVR |
Tranceiver |
| TDRSS |
Tracking & Data Relay Satellite System |
| TMON |
Telemetry Monitor |
| TMR |
Triple Modular Redundancy |
| USU |
Utah State University |
| VPI |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia
Tech) |
| VITMO |
Virtual Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere Observatory |
| WHRO |
Public Broadcast Station in Norfolk, VA |
