| Acronym | Meaning |
| VBNS | Very High Performance Backbone Network Service |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program |
| CCOPE | Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment |
| APS | Autocorrelated Photon Spectroscopy |
| AOV | Air-operated Valve |
| AL | Analytical Laboratory |
| CAST | Chinese Academy Of Space Technology |
| LASP | Laboratory For Atmospheric And Space Physics |
| MAC | Machine Aided Cognition |
| CBERS | China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite |