| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSO | Office Of Systems Operations |
| ICEX | Ice Experiment |
| ATS | Advanced Technology Satellite |
| IADB | Interactive Ancillary Data Base |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| HIRRLS | High Resolution Research Limb Sounder |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| PEM | Particle Environment Monitor |
| GOSIP | Government Open Systems Interconnect Protocol |
| UTC | United Technology Center |