Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
Pre-Phase A Report - Lisa - Nasa
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188 List of Acronyms<br />
CTE Coefficient of Thermal Expansion<br />
CWDB Close White Dwarf Binaries<br />
DC Direct Current<br />
DFACS Drag-Free and Attitude Control System<br />
DLR Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt<br />
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory<br />
DSN Deep Space Network (NASA)<br />
EDAC Error Detection And Correction<br />
ELITE European LISA TEchnology demonstration satellite<br />
EOL End Of Lifetime<br />
EOM Electro-Optic Modulator<br />
EQUATOR-S – satellite name –<br />
ESA European Space Agency<br />
ESTEC European Space Research and Technology Centre<br />
FEEP Field Emission Electric Propulsion<br />
FFT Fast Fourier Transform<br />
FPAG Fundamental Physics Advisory Group<br />
FSS Fine Sun Sensor<br />
GALILEO – Spacecraft tracking mission (1989), now orbiting Jupiter –<br />
GCR Galctic Cosmic Rays<br />
GEANT – program code, CERN –<br />
GEO Geostationary Orbit<br />
GEO 600 – German-British 600 m laser-interferometric GW detector –<br />
GEOTAIL – satellite name –<br />
GP-B Gravity Probe B<br />
GPS Global Positioning System<br />
GRADIO – Gravity Gradiometry mission: accelerometer sensor –<br />
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center<br />
GTO “Geostationary Transfer Orbit” – highly eccentric orbit for transfer<br />
from low-earth orbit to geostationary orbit<br />
GUT Grand Unification Theory<br />
GW Gravitational Wave<br />
GWI Gravity Wave Interferometer<br />
HeCV Helium Cataclysmic Variables<br />
HST Hubble Space Telescope<br />
I/F Interface<br />
I/O Input/Output<br />
IBM RS/6000 IBM ‘risc’ processor, 22 MIPS<br />
In-LMIS Indium Liquid Metal Ion Source<br />
IR InfraRed<br />
IRU Inertial Reference Unit<br />
ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)<br />
IWDB Interacting White Dwarf Binaries<br />
JILA Joint Institute for Laboratory Astophysics (Boulder, USA)<br />
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, USA)<br />
LAGOS Laser Antenna for Gravitation-radiation Observation in Space<br />
3-3-1999 9:33 Corrected version 2.08