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The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

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500 Acronyms and Abbreviations<br />

GEO geosynchronous orbit or geostationary orbit<br />

GEOS Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite<br />

GFO Geosat Follow-On<br />

GFZ-1 GeoForschungsZentrum<br />

GIFTS Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform<br />

Spectrometer<br />

GIRD Gruppa Isutcheniya Reaktivnovo Dvisheniya<br />

GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope<br />

GLOMR Global Low Orbiting Message Relay<br />

GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System<br />

GMS Geosynchronous Meteorological Satellite<br />

GMT Greenwich Mean Time<br />

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental<br />

Satellite<br />

GOMS Geostationary Operational Meteorological<br />

Satellite<br />

GPS Global Positioning System<br />

GRACE <strong>Gravity</strong> Recovery and Climate Experiment<br />

GRC Glenn Research Center<br />

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center<br />

GSLV Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle<br />

GSO geostationary orbit or geosynchronous orbit<br />

GTO geosynchronous/geostationary transfer orbit<br />

HALCA Highly Advanced Labora<strong>to</strong>ry for Communications<br />

and Astronomy<br />

HARP High Altitude Research Project<br />

HCMM Heat Capacity Mapping Mission<br />

HEAO High Energy Astrophysical Observa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

HEO highly elliptical orbit or high Earth orbit<br />

HEOS Highly Eccentric Orbiting Satellite<br />

HESSI High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager. See<br />

RHESSI.<br />

HETE High Energy Transient Experiment<br />

HGA high-gain antenna<br />

HLV heavy-lift launch vehicle<br />

HNX Heavy Nuclei Explorer<br />

HOPE H-2 Orbital Plane<br />

HOTOL Horizontal Take<strong>of</strong>f and Landing vehicle<br />

HRF Human Research Facility<br />

HST Hubble Space Telescope<br />

IBSS Infrared Background Signature Survey<br />

IAE Inflatable Antenna Experiment<br />

IAF International Astronautical Federation<br />

ICAN (rocket) Ion Compressed Antimatter Nuclear<br />

(rocket). See antimatter propulsion<br />

ICE International Cometary Explorer<br />

ICESAT Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite<br />

IDCSP Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program<br />

IEH International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker<br />

IEOS International Earth Observing System<br />

IGY International Geophysical Year<br />

IKI Russian Space Research Institute<br />

ILS International Launch Services<br />

IMAGE Imager for Magne<strong>to</strong>pause-<strong>to</strong>-Aurora Global<br />

Exploration<br />

IMEWS Integrated Missile Early Warning Satellite<br />

IMINT imagery intelligence satellite<br />

IMP Interplanetary Moni<strong>to</strong>ring Platform<br />

INPE Institu<strong>to</strong> Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias<br />

INTA Institu<strong>to</strong> Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial<br />

INTEGRAL International Gamma-ray Astrophysics<br />

Labora<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

Intelsat International Telecommunications Satellite<br />

Organization<br />

ION-F Ionospheric Observation Nanosatellite Formation<br />

IQSY International Quiet Sun Years<br />

IRAS Infrared Astronomy Satellite<br />

IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile<br />

IRFNA inhibited red fuming nitric acid. See nitric<br />

acid<br />

IRIS Infrared Imaging Surveyor<br />

IRS Indian Remote Sensing satellite<br />

IRSI Infrared Space Interferometer. See Darwin<br />

IRTS Infrared Telescope in Space<br />

ISAS Institute <strong>of</strong> Space and Astronautical Sciences<br />

ISM interstellar medium<br />

ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation<br />

ISEE International Sun-Earth Explorer<br />

ISIS International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies<br />

ISO Infrared Space Observa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

ISS International Space Station<br />

ISS Ionospheric Sounding Satellite<br />

ITOS Improved TIROS Operating System<br />

IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer<br />

IUS inertial upper stage<br />

JAS Japanese Amateur Satellite<br />

JERS Japanese Earth Resources Satellite<br />

JMEX Jupiter Magne<strong>to</strong>spheric Explorer<br />

JPL Jet Propulsion Labora<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

JSC Johnson Space Center<br />

KAO Kuiper Airborne Observa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

KH Key Hole<br />

KSC Kennedy Space Center<br />

LACE Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment<br />

Lageos Laser Geodynamics Satellite<br />

LDEF Long Duration Exposure Facility<br />

Leasat Leased Satellite<br />

LEO low Earth orbit<br />

LES Launch Escape System. See <strong>Apollo</strong><br />

LES Lincoln Experimental Satellite<br />

LF Life Finder<br />

LGA low-gain antenna<br />

LH2 liquid hydrogen

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