ACS |
Attitude Control System |
AMPTE |
Active Magnetospheric Tracer Explorer |
C&DH |
Command and Data Handling |
CCD |
Charge-Coupled Device |
CCE |
Charge Composition Explorer |
CCSDS |
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
CDI |
Command Data Interface |
EEE |
Electrical, Electronic, Electromechanical |
C.G. |
Center of Gravity |
CIDP |
Central Instrument Data Processor |
CMM |
Capability Maturity Model of the Software Engineering Institute |
CMP |
Control Microprocessor (on EUV) |
COTS |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
CRRES |
Combined Radiation and Release Spacecraft |
DoD |
Department of Defense |
DOD |
Depth of Discharge |
DPS |
Digisonde Portable Sounder |
DSN |
Deep Space Network |
EMC |
Electromagnetic Compatibility |
EMI |
Electromagnetic Interference |
EOL |
End of Life |
EUV |
Extreme Ultraviolet Imager |
FAR |
Federal Acquisition Regulation |
FAST |
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer |
FMEA |
Failure Modes Effects Analyses |
FOV |
Field of View |
FSS |
Fan Sun Sensor |
FUV |
Far Ultraviolet Imager |
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
HCI |
Horizon Crossing Indicator |
HENA |
High-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
IMAGE |
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
ISSA |
International Space Station Alpha |
LBH |
Lyman-Birge-Hopfield (bands of FUV emissions from N2 |
LENA |
Low-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
LEO |
Low Earth Orbit |
LET |
Linear Energy Transfer |
LPARL |
Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratory |
MCP |
Microchannel Plate |
Med-Lite |
Medium-Light Expendable Launch Vehicle |
MENA |
Medium-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
MET |
Mission Elapsed Time |
MI |
Magnetosphere Imager |
MIDEX |
Medium Explorer |
MIMI |
Magnetospheric Imaging |
CHEMS |
Instrument/Charge-Energy-Mass-Spectrometer for Cassini |
MUE |
Mission Unique Electronics |
MUE |
Mission Unique Electronics |
NAI |
Neutral Atom Imager |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
O I |
Neutral atomic oxygen emission produced by electron impact |
PA |
Performance Assurance |
PH |
Pulse Height |
POI |
Product of Inertia |
QA |
Quality Assurance |
QAE |
Quality Assurance Engineer |
QAP |
Quality Assurance Plan |
RAAN |
Right Ascension of the Ascending Node |
RAD-6000 |
Radiation-hardened Loral R6000 microprocessor chip |
RAM |
Random Access Memory |
RE |
Earth Radius |
RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
RPI |
Radio Plasma Imager |
SAC-B |
Argentine satellite |
SEI |
Software Engineering Institute |
SEPS |
Source/Loss-Cone Energetic Particle Spectrometer on Polar |
S/C |
Spacecraft |
SI |
Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Imager |
SMEX |
Small Explorer |
SMOC |
GSFC Science and Mission Operations Center |
S/N |
Signal-to-noise |
SSD |
Solid State Detector |
SwRI |
Southwest Research Institute |
TIDE |
Thermal Ion Dynamics Experiment on GGS/Polar |
TIMAS |
Toroidal Ion Mass-Angle Spectrograph on GGS/Polar |
VME |
Versamodule Europe |
WIC |
Far Ultraviolet Wideband Imaging Camera |