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List of Acronyms<br />

– and other abbreviations and mission names<br />

1553 (standardised interface bus)<br />

AC Alternating Current<br />

ACS Attitude Control System<br />

Ada (a programming language)<br />

AFRP Aramid Fibre Reinforced Plastic<br />

AO Announcement of Opportunity<br />

ARC Austrian Research Centre, Seibersdorf<br />

ARISTOTELES Applications and Research Involving Space Techniques Observing The<br />

Earth field from Low-Earth orbiting Satellite<br />

ASCA – satellite name –<br />

ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiano<br />

ASTRE Accelerometre Spatial TRiaxial Electrostatique<br />

AU Astronomical Unit : distance Sun–Earth<br />

AURIGA Antenna Ultracriogenica Risonante per l’Indagine Gravitazionale<br />

Astronomica : cryogenic resonant-mass antenna, Legnaro, Italy<br />

BH Black Hole<br />

BOL Begin Of Lifetime<br />

C (a programming language)<br />

C++ (an object-oriented programming language)<br />

C&DH Command and Data Handling<br />

CAD Computer Aided Design<br />

CAESAR Capacitive And Electrostatic Sensitive Accelerometer Reference<br />

CASSINI – NASA space mission (1997) to orbit Saturn –<br />

CCSDS Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, telemetry standard<br />

CD-ROM Compact Disk – Read Only Memory<br />

CERN Centre Européen de la Recherche Nucléaire<br />

CFRP Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic<br />

CHAMP – German geodetic satellite –<br />

CLUSTER-II – ESA/NASA space mission (2000), 4 s/c to be launched on Ariane 5 –<br />

CNES Centre National d’Etude Spatiales (France)<br />

CO Carbon-Oxygen<br />

COBE COsmic Background Explorer<br />

COLUMBIA – NASA spaceshuttle–<br />

COLUMBUS – ESA space mission, to fly on NASA shuttle, 1996 –<br />

COSPAR Committee On SPAce Research<br />

CPU Central Processing Unit<br />

Corrected version 2.08 187 3-3-1999 9:33

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