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

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502 Acronyms and Abbreviations<br />

POES Polar Operational Environmental Satellite<br />

Polar BEAR Polar Beacon Experiment and Auroral<br />

Research<br />

PPT pulsed-plasma thruster<br />

PRIME Precision Recovery Including Maneuvering<br />

Entry<br />

PRIME Primordial Explorer<br />

PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle<br />

QuikScat Quick Scatterometer<br />

QuikTOMS Quick Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer<br />

RAE Radiation Astronomy Explorer<br />

RAIR ram-augmented interstellar rocket. See interstellar<br />

ramjet<br />

RBM Radiation Belt Mappers<br />

RCS reaction control system<br />

REX Radiation Experiment<br />

RFD Reentry Flight Demonstra<strong>to</strong>r<br />

RFNA red fuming nitric acid. See nitric acid<br />

RHESSI Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic<br />

Imager<br />

RHU radioiso<strong>to</strong>pe heater unit<br />

RKA Russian Space Agency<br />

RLT round-trip light time<br />

RLV reusable launch vehicle<br />

RME Relay Mirror Experiment<br />

RMS Remote Manipula<strong>to</strong>r System<br />

RORSAT Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite<br />

ROSAT Roentgen Satellite<br />

RP-1 rocket propellant 1<br />

RRS Reaction Research Society<br />

RTG radioiso<strong>to</strong>pe thermoelectric genera<strong>to</strong>r<br />

RXTE Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer<br />

SAGE Stra<strong>to</strong>spheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment<br />

SAMPEX Solar Anomalous and Magne<strong>to</strong>spheric Particle<br />

Explorer<br />

SAR synthetic aperture radar<br />

SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellites<br />

SAS Small Astronomy Satellite<br />

SCATHA Spacecraft Charging At High Altitudes<br />

SCORE Signal Corps Orbiting Relay Experiment<br />

SCS Small Communications Satellite. See MicroSat<br />

SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization<br />

SDO Solar Dynamics Observa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

SDS Satellite Data System<br />

SECOR Sequential Collation <strong>of</strong> Range<br />

SECS Special Experimental Communications System.<br />

See GLOMR<br />

SEDS Small Expendable-tether Deployer System<br />

SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development<br />

<strong>of</strong> Space<br />

SELENE Selenological and Engineering Explorer<br />

SEP solar-electric propulsion<br />

SERT Space Electric Rocket Test<br />

SFU Space Flyer Unit<br />

SHAR Sriharikota Range Center<br />

SHARP Super High Altitude Research Project<br />

SIGINT satellites signals intelligence satellites<br />

SIM Space Interferometry Mission<br />

SIRTF Space Infrared Telescope Facility<br />

SLI Space Launch Initiative<br />

SM Service Module. See <strong>Apollo</strong><br />

SMART Small Missions for Advanced Research in<br />

Technology<br />

SME Solar Mesosphere Explorer<br />

SMEX Small Explorer<br />

SMM Solar Maximum Mission<br />

SMS space motion sickness<br />

SMS Synchronous Meteorological Satellite<br />

SNAP Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power<br />

SNOE Student Nitric Oxide Explorer<br />

SOFIA Stra<strong>to</strong>spheric Observa<strong>to</strong>ry for Infrared Astronomy<br />

SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

SOLO Solar Orbiter<br />

Solrad Solar Radiation program<br />

SORCE Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment<br />

SPARCLE Space Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment<br />

SPAS Shuttle Pallet Satellite<br />

SPEAR Spectroscopy <strong>of</strong> Plasma Evolution from<br />

Astrophysical Radiation<br />

SPIDR Spectroscopy and Pho<strong>to</strong>metry <strong>of</strong> the Intergalactic<br />

Medium’s Diffuse Radiation<br />

SPIRIT Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope<br />

SPOT Satellite Proba<strong>to</strong>ire d’Observation de la Terre<br />

SRBs Solid Rocket Boosters. See Space Shuttle<br />

SROSS Stretched Rohini Satellite Series<br />

SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission<br />

SS Scientific Satellite<br />

SSC Stennis Space Center<br />

SSF subsatellite ferrets<br />

SSI Space Studies Institute<br />

SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine. See Space Shuttle<br />

SSS Small Scientific Satellite<br />

SSTO single-stage-<strong>to</strong>-orbit<br />

STARSHINE Student Tracked Atmospheric Research<br />

Satellite for Heuristic International Networking<br />

Equipment<br />

START Spacecraft Technology and Advanced Reentry<br />

Test<br />

STEDI Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative<br />

STENTOR Satellite de Télécommunications pour<br />

Expériences de Nouvelles Technologies en Orbite<br />

STEP Satellite Test <strong>of</strong> the Equivalence Principle<br />

STEREO Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observa<strong>to</strong>ry

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