| Acronym | Meaning |
| DIRBE | Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment |
| AAO | Anglo-Australian Observatory |
| RNGC | Revised New General Catalog |
| SL | (Comet) Shoemaker-Levy / SpaceLab |
| MMCC | Mission Management And Control Centre |
| WINDII | Wind Imaging Interferometer |
| SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly / Single Access Antenna |
| GOSAMR | Gelation Of Soils: Applied Microgravity Research |
| IPS | Inertial Pointing System |
| NTR | Nuclear Thermal Rocket(ry) |