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Sartor, SARTOR
Sartor, SARTOR Standards and routes to registration
(EC UK ).
Sartu Search and Rescue Training Unit (RAF Valley).
SAS 1 Stability-augmentation system.
2 Satellite Applications Section (NOAA).
3 Small-angle scattering.
4 Stall-avoidance subsystem.
5 Staring-array seeker.
6 Single audio system.
7 Special Air Service (UK).
8 Survival avionics system.
9 Sensors and Avionic Systems (UK Qinetiq).
10 Signature augmentation subsystem.
11 Support analysis software.
12 Société par Actions Simplifiée (F, joint stock co).
13 Station address set.
14 School of Aviation Safety (USN, USMC).
15 Small Astronomy Satellite[s].
16 Standard altimeter setting [1,013.2 mb].
SASC Senate Armed Services Committee (US).
SAS/CSS SAS (1) plus control-stick steering.
SASE Semi-automatic support equipment.
Sashlite Illuminated under bomber at instant of bomb
release and plotted on camera obscura (RAF training,
1930-45).
SASI The Society of Air Safety Investigators [offices at
Camp Springs, MD, and Toronto, Canada].
SASIG Strategic Aviation Special Interest Group (UK,
airport location).
SASO 1 Pronounced sasso, Senior Air Staff Officer
(RAF).
2 Stability and support operations.
SASP Single advanced signal processor.
SASRS Satellite-aided search and rescue system.
SASS Strategic airborne, or small aerostat, surveillance
system.
SASSA, Sassa Self-awareness space situational awareness
(USAF).
SASSR Small-aperture SSR.
SAST 1 Strategic analyses in science and technology.
2 Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology.
SAT 1 Software audit team.
2 Static air temperature.
3 Situational-awareness technology.
4 Strategic action team (FAA).
5 System acceptance test.
SATA, Sata Small-aperture telescope augmentation.
Sataf Site-activation task force.
Satair Sea acceptance trials, air.
Satca Swedish Air Traffic Controllers Association
[office, Angelholm].
SATCC Southern African Transportation Coordinating
Commission.
Satco, SATCO Senior air traffic control officer.
satcom[s] Generalized term for satellite communications.
Satcoma Satellite Communications Agency (US).
SATCP Sol-air très courte portée (F).
satellite 1 Body revolving in equilibrium orbit around
primary, natural or man-made.
2 Man-made device intended to become * (1).
3 Military airfield auxiliary to nearby main airfield and
relying on latter for admin. and most services.
saucepan
4 Sub-terminal at airport to disperse processing and
bring passengers nearer relevant gates.
satellite landing system Based on a DGPS ground
station, currently provides Cat.1 to equipped aircraft
[DGNSSU plus interfaces] to all runways within 30 nm [56
km]; later growth to Cat.III.
satellite/pier layout Airport terminal is connected to
some satellites (4) and some piers.
satellite telephone intermediate unit Cabin interface
between satcom and terrestrial telephone [or telecommunications]
avionics with CTU (2).
satelloid Satellite whose orbit is within planetary atmosphere
and thus requires continuous or intermittent thrust.
SATF 1 Strike and terrain-following (radar).
2 Shuttle activation task force (also rendered Sataf).
Satin 1 SAC automated total-information network
(USAF).
2 Survivability augmentation for transport
installation-now (Lockheed-Georgia ECM).
Satka Surveillance, acquisition, tracking and kill
assessment.
Satnav Satellite navigation, ie satellite-assisted.
Satnet Satellite network.
SATO Scheduled airlines ticket office.
satphone Satellite telephone, especially in aircraft.
Satrack Satellite tracking, first GPS system.
SATS 1 Small airfield for tactical support (USMC).
2 Small-arms target system.
3 Shuttle avionics test set.
4 Small-aircraft technology [changed from transportation]
system, to relieve pressure on hubs (NASA).
SATSAR Satellite-aided SAR study group (ICAO).
Satsim Saturation countermeasures simulator (USAF).
SATT Small-aircraft training target.
saturable reactor Soft-core inductor control for pulsed
radars and magnetic amplifiers.
saturated adiabatic lapse-rate Rate of decrease of
temperature with height for parcel of saturated air.
saturated air Air containing greatest possible density of
water vapour, such that in any given period number of
molecular break-ups equals number of recombinations;
RH (2) = 100%.
saturated beacon Ground transponder beacon, eg
DME, interrogated by so many aircraft (usually 100
simultaneously is limit) that its AGC cuts out replies
except to 100 strongest interrogators.
saturation Measure of airport traffic: current movements
[usually per hour] ÷ maximum allowable.
saturation diving Undersea submergence at depths in
order of 300 m for prolonged period when blood is saturated
with chosen breathing mixture.
saturation vapour pressure Vapour pressure of particular
substance, variable with temperature, which at
given temperature is in equilibrium with plane surface of
same substance in liquid or solid phase.
Saturn 1 Second-generation anti-jam tactical uhf radios
for NATO.
2 The interoperable waveform for (1).
SAU 1 Safety/arming unit.
2 Signal acquisition unit.
3 Surface-attack unit.
4 Splitter amplifier unit.
saucepan Circular remote dispersal for single heavy
bomber (colloq. WW2).
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