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Abbreviations and Acronyms
ΔV | delta-V (change in velocity) |
AAReST |
Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope |
ADR | active debris removal |
ADRe | active rehabilitation |
ADS | Astrophysics Data System (NASA) |
AES | Advanced Exploration Systems |
AFOSR | Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
AFRL/RV | Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate |
AGU | American Geophysical Union |
AIDA | Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment |
ALASA | Airborne Launch Assist Space Access |
AOSAT | Asteroid Origins Satellite |
APRA | Astrophysics Research and Analysis program |
ASTERIA | Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics |
Astro2010 | New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal survey |
BARREL |
Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses |
BRITE | Bright Target Explorer |
C&DH |
command and data handling |
CADRE | Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education |
Cal Poly | California Polytechnic State University |
CANYVAL-X | CubeSat Astronomy by NASA and Yonsei using Virtual Telescope Alignment Experiment |
CeREs | Compact Radiation Belt Explorer Missions |
CINEMA | CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons, and Magnetic Fields |
CIRAS | CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder |
CIRiS | Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space |
COSMIC | Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate |
COTS | commercial off the shelf |
COVE | CubeSat Onboard Processing Validation Experiment |
CPOD | CubeSat Proximity Operations Demonstration |
CSLI | CubeSat Launch Initiative |
CSSWE | Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment |
CSUNSat | California State University Northridge Satellite |
CubeRRT | CubeSat Radiometer RFI Technology Validation mission |
CuSP | CubeSat to Study Solar Particles |
CXBN | Cosmic X-Ray Background Nanosatellite |
CYGNSS | Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System |
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DAVID | Diminutive Asteroid Visitor using Ion Drive |
DICE | Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment |
DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DRIVE | diversify, realize, integrate, venture, and educate |
DSL | Discovering the Sky at Longest wavelengths |
DSN | Deep Space Network |
DYNAMIC | Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Mission |
EcAMSat |
E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite |
EDL | entry-descent-landing |
EDSN | Edison Demonstration of Smallsat Networks |
EELV | Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle |
ELaNa | Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (NASA) |
ELFIN | Electron Losses and Fields Investigation |
ELROI | Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier |
EM | Exploration Mission |
EMFF | Electro-Magnetic-Formation Flight |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESAS 2017 | Decadal Survey in Earth Science that is anticipated in 2017 |
ESCAPE | Earth Science CubeSat for Advanced Payload Experiments |
ESPA | EELV Secondary Payload Adapter |
ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office (NASA) |
EUV | extreme ultraviolet |
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
FIREBIRD | Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range, and Dynamics |
FWHM | full width at half maximum |
GALEX |
Galaxy Evolution Explorer |
GDC | Geospace Dynamics Constellation |
GENSO | Global Educational Network for Satellite Operations |
GEO | geostationary Earth orbit |
GEO-CAPE | Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events |
GNSS-RO | global navigation satellite system-radio occultation |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NOAA) |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GRIFEX | GEO-CAPE ROIC In-Flight Performance Experiment |
H | hydrogen |
HALO | Hydrogen Albedo Lunar Orbiter |
HAM | handheld amateur radio |
HARP | HyperAngular Rainbow Polarimeter |
HeDI | Helium Doppler Imager |
HEOMD | Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate |
HMI | Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager |
HOT-BIRD | high-operating temperature barrier infrared detector |
IARU |
International Amateur Radio Union |
IBEX | Interstellar Boundary Explorer |
IMAP | Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe |
InSight | Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (NASA) |
INSPIRE | Interplanetary Nano-Spacecraft Pathfinder in Relevant Environment |
IPEX | Intelligent Payload Experiment |
IR | infrared |
IRIS | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph |
ISARA | Integrated Solar Array and Reflectarray Antenna |
iSAT | Iodine Satellite |
ISM | Industrial Scientific and Medical |
Isp | specific impulse |
ISS | International Space Station |
ISX | Ionospheric Scintillation eXplorer mission |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
IT-SPINS | Ionospheric-Thermospheric Scanning Photometer for Ion-Neutral Studies mission |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
IV&V | Independent Verification and Validation |
IXO | International X-ray Observatory |
JAXA |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
JSpOC | Joint Space Operations Center (U.S. Air Force) |
JWST | James Webb Space Telescope |
LAICE |
Lower Atmosphere/Ionosphere Coupling Experiment mission |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LISA | Laser Interferometer Space Antenna |
LMPC | Linear Mode Photon-counting CubeSat |
LMRST | Low Mass Radio Science Transponder |
LunaH-Map | Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper |
MagCat |
Magnetospheric Constellation and Tomography |
MagCon | Magnetospheric Constellation Mission |
MarCO | Mars Cube One |
MCubed | Michigan Multipurpose Minisat |
MEDICI | Magnetosphere Energetics, Dynamics, and Ionospheric Coupling Investigation |
MEROPE | Montana Earth Orbiting Pico Explorer |
MHD | magnetohydrodynamic |
MinXSS | Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer |
MiRaTA | Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration mission |
MITEE | Miniature Tether Electrodynamics Experiment |
MLI | Multi-Layer Insulation |
MMO | Mars Micro Orbiter |
MMS | Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission |
MRO | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NEA | near Earth asteroid |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NODeS | Network and Operation Demonstration Satellite |
NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
NPP | NPOESS Preparatory Project |
NRC | National Research Council |
NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NTIA | National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
NuSTAR | Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Mission |
O/OREOS |
Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses |
OCSD | Optical Communication and Sensor Demonstration |
OPAL | Orbiting Picosatellite Automated Launcher |
PFISR |
Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar |
PI | principal investigator |
P-POD | Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployer |
PreSat | PharmaSat Risk Evaluation (PRESat) nanosatellite (NASA) |
PSD | Planetary Science Division (NASA) |
Q-PACE |
CubeSat Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment |
R&A |
research and analysis |
RainCube | Radar in a CubeSat |
RAVAN | Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes |
RAX | Radio Aurora Explorer |
RBLE | Radiation Belt Loss Experiment |
REPT | Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescope Instrument |
RFID | Radio-frequency Identification |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
SAO |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
SIMPLEx | Small, Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration |
SLS | Space Launch System |
SMC | Space Missile Command |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate (NASA) |
SO/PHI | Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager |
SORCE | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
SORTIE | Scintillation Observations and Response of the Ionosphere to Electrodynamics |
SRAM | static random-access memory |
STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
STF | Simulation to Flight |
STMD | Space Technology Mission Directorate (NASA) |
STP | Space Test Program (DOD) |
STRaND | Surrey Training, Research, and Nanosatellite Demonstrator |
TBEx |
Tandem Beacon-Explorer |
TCTE | Total Solar Irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment |
TechEdSat | Technology Education Satellite |
TEMPEST-D | Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Demonstration |
THEMIS | Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms |
TIM | Total Irradiance Monitor |
TIR | thermal infrared |
TIRFF | Thermal Infrared Free Flyer |
TJ3Sat | Thomas Jefferson CubeSat |
TRL | technology readiness level |
TRYAD | Terrestrial Rays Analysis and Detection Mission |
TSI | total solar irradiance |
TSIS | Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor |
U |
unit, with 1U being about 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm |
UHF | ultrahigh frequency |
ULA | United Launch Alliance |
UNP | University Nanosatellite Program |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
USML | U.S. Munitions List |
UV | ultraviolet |
VCLS |
Venture Class Launch Services |
VHF | very high frequency |
VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
WFIRST |
Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope |
WISE | Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer |
WMAP | Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe |
WoS | Web of Science |
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