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Appendix E: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Pages 113-118

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... 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 113
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From page 114...
... 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)
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From page 115...
... 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
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From page 116...
... 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)
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... 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.
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Key Terms

  • earth science
  • navigation satellite
  • total solar
  • global navigation
  • mission directorate

  • space telescope
  • thermal infrared
  • environmental satellite
  • magnetospheric constellation
  • decadal survey

  • radiation belt
  • operational environmental
  • transfer experiment
  • experiments espa
  • earth sciences

  • detection mission
  • climate cots
  • missions cinema
  • arcsecond space
  • assist space

  • vertically aligned
  • mission emff
  • geostationary operational
  • identification roses
  • experiment sortie

  • exploration mission
  • virtual telescope
  • geostationary earth
  • technology education
  • experiment techedsat


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