| Acronym | Meaning |
| POAM | Polar Ozone And Aerosol Measurement |
| CAR | Central African Republic |
| MICRO-SCALE | N/A |
| EOPM | Electro-optic Phase Modulated |
| SEE | Solar EUV Experiment |
| H/W | Hardware |
| GPX | A Suffix Which Designates Graphics Capabilities On The DEC MicroVax System (typically Seen As DEC VAXstation/GPX.) |
| PBYTE | Petabyte (1015bytes) |
| MOCD | Magneto-optics Compact Disk |
| ELVIS | ELectromagnetic Very Weak Instabilities Saturated |