Astronomy Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Astronomy Acronyms

• SRB — Solid Rocket Booster
• SRM — Solid Rocket Motor
• SSBUV — Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Experiment
• SSCE — Solid Surface Combustion Experiment
• SSF — Space Station Freedom
• SSI — Solid-State Imager / Space Studies Institut
• SSME — Space Shuttle Main Engine
• SSO — Spurious Shut-off
• SSPF — Space Station Processing Facility
• SSPO — Space Shuttle Program Office
• SSPS — Sky Survey Prototype System
• SSRMS — Space Station Remote Manipulator System
• SSRT — Single Stage Rocket Technology
• SSRV — Solar-Sail Race Vehicle
• SST — Spectroscopic Survey Telescope / SuperSonic Transport
• SSTO — Single Stage To Orbit
• STARCAL — Star Calibration
• STC — Stennis Test Center
• STC — SHAPE Technical Center
• STDCE — Surface Tension Driven Convection Experment
• STIKSCAT — Stick Scatterometer
• STIS — Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer
• STS — Shuttle Transport System / Space Transportation System
• STSCI — Space Telescope Science Institute
• STSDAS — Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• SWAN — Solar Wind Anisotropy Experiment
• SWAS — Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
• SWF — ShortWave Fading
• SWLC — Salt Water Leak Check
• TAI — International Atomic Time
• TAL — Transatlantic Abort Landing
• TAU — Thousand Astronomical Unit
• TCM — Trajectory Control Maneuver
• TCS — Thermal Control System
• TDRS — Tracking And Data Relay Satellite
• TDRSS — Tracking And Data Relay Satellite System
• TDT — Terrestrial Dynamic Time
• TEA — Torque Equilibrium Attitude
• TES — Thermal Emission Spectrometer
• THIR — Temperature/Humidity Infrared Radiometer
• TIG — Time of (until) Ignition
• TIROS — Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
• TKSC — Tsukuba Space Center
• TM — Thematic Mapper
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• TOPS — Toward Other Planetary Systems
• TOS — Transfer Orbit Stage
• TPCE — Tank Pressure Control Experiment
• TPS — Thermal Protection System
• TRMM — Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
• TSM — Tail Service Mast
• TSPK — Tsentr Podgotovka Kosmonavti
• TSS — Targeted Search System / Tethered Satellite System
• TSTO — Two Stage To Orbit
• TSUP — Tsentr Upravileniya Polyoti
• TTC — Telemetry
• TWTA — Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier
• U3P — Union Pour La Promotion De La Propulsion Photonique
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
• UBM — Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism
• UDMH — Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine
• UFO — Unidentified Flying Object
• UGC — Uppsala General Catalog
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency
• UIT — Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
• UKST — United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope
• UOSAT — University of Surrey Satellite
• UPPP — Union Pour La Promotion De La Propulsion Photonique
• USA/RC — Universities Space Automation/Robotics Consortium
• USAF — United States Air Force
• USMC — United States Marine Corps
• USML — United States Microgravity Laboratory
• USMP — United States Microgravity Payload
• USN — United States Navy
• USO — Ultra-Stable Oscillator
• UT — Universal Time
• UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
• UV — Ultraviolet
• UVPI — Ultraviolet Plume Instrument
• UVS — Ultraviolet Spectrometer
• VAB — Vehicle Assembly Building
• VAFB — Vandenberg Air Force Base
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• VECO — Vernier Engine Cutoff
• VEEGA — Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist
• VFT — Visual Function Tester
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• VIB — Vertical Integration Building
• VICAR — Graphics Format Used By JPL
• VISSR — Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer
• VLA — Very Large Array
• VLBA — Very Long Baseline Array
• VLBI — Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• VLF — Very Low Frequency
• VLT — Very Large Telescope
• VMF — Voenno-Morskoy Flot
• VMS — Vertical Motion Simulator
• VOIR — Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar