Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
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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 />
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