Appendix B
SPACE GLOSSARY AND ACRONYMS
ω
Ω
∆v
Argument of Perigee
Ascending Node
delta-v
A
a
A/MWC
AA
ABM
ACC
ACMS
ACS
ADRG
ADSI
AEPDS
AFCC
AFM
AFSATCOM
AFSCN
AFSPACE
AFSPC
AFSPC/CC
AFSST
AIRS
Al
ALCM
ALCOR
ALERT
ALTAIR
AMCSS
AMOS
AOC
AOC
APT
ARC
ARPA
ARSPACE
ARSPACE FWD
ARSST
ARTS
A-S
AU Space Primer-
Semi-Major Axis
Alternate Missile Warning Center
Attack Assessment
Anti-Ballistic Missile
Air Combat Command
Alternate Master Control Station
Attitude Control Subsystem
Arch Digitized Raster Graphics
Air Defense Systems Integrator
Advanced Electronic Processing and Dissemination System
Air Force Communications Command
Air Force Manual
AF Satellite Communications
Air Force Satellite Control Network
Air Force Space Command
Air Force Space Command
Commander, Air Force Space Command
AF Space Support Team
Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere
Aluminum
Air-Launched Cruise Missile
ARPA Lincoln C-Band Observable Radar
Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater
ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Identification Radar
AFSAT Modulation Compatibility Sub System
ARPA Maui Optical Site
Aerospace Operations Center
Auxiliary Output Chip
Automatic Picture Transmission
Advanced Research Center
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Army Space Command
Army Space Command Forward
Army Space Support Team
Automated Remote Tracking Station
Anti-Spoofing
B-1 -
7/24/2003
ASARS-2
ASAT
ASCC
ASDP
ASEDP
ASIS
ASPADOC
ASPO
ATACMS
ATO
ATV
AU
AUTONAV
AVHRR
AWACS
AWACS
AWN
AZA
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2
Anti-Satellite
Alternate Space Control Center
Army Space Demonstration Program
Army Space Exploitation Demonstration Program
Army Space Initiatives Study
Alternate Space Defense Operations Center
Army Space Program Office
Army Tactical Missile System
Air Tasking Order
Automated Transfer Vehicle
Distance of Earth from the sun
Autonomous Navigation
Advanced High Resolution Radiometer
Airborne Warning and Control System
Airborne Warning and Control System
Automated Weather Network
Auroral Zone Absorption
B
BIOT
BMD
BMEWS
BOA
British Indian Ocean Territory
Ballistic Missile Defense
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
Battlefield Ordnance Awareness
C
c
C/A
C2
CACS
CACS
CALCM
CANR
CCD
CCIS
CCS
CCS
CDF
CEP
CGS
CIC
CIC
CINC
CINC
AU Space Primer-
Linear Eccentricity
Course Acquisition
Command and Control
Command and Control Squadron
Command and Control Squadron
Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile
Canadian NORAD Region
Camouflage, Concealment and Deception
Civil/Commercial Imagery System
Constellation Control Station
Constellation Control Station
Commercial Demonstration Flight
Circular Error Probability
CONUS Ground Station
Combat Intelligence Correlator
Combined Intelligence Center
Commander-in-Chief
Commander in Chief
B-2 -
7/24/2003
CINC-NORAD
CIO
CIR
CIRA
CM
CMAS
CME
CMOC
CMR
CNA
CND
CNO
CO2
COF
CONOPS
CONUS
COTS
CRT
CSEL
CSIL
CSPE
Commander-in-Chief CINC of NORAD
Central Imagery Office
Color Infrared
Cospar International Reference Atmosphere
Cruise Missile
Cheyenne Mountain Air Station
Coronal Mass Ejection
Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center
Communication by Moon Relay
Computer Network Attack
Computer Network Defense
Chief of Naval Operations
Carbon Dioxide
Columbus Orbital Facility
Concept of Operations
Continental United States
Commercial-off-the-Shelf
Cathode-Ray Tube
Combat Survivor/Evader Locator
Commercial Satellite Imagery Library
Communications Systems Planning Element
D
D
DAGR
DAMA
DARO
DARPA
dB
DC
DCSOPS
DDC
DEM
DEW
DGPS
DIA
DISA
DISN
DMA
DMS
DMSP
DOD
DR
DRC
DSCS
AU Space Primer-
Distance
Defense Advanced GPS Receiver
Demand Assigned Multiple Access
Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Decibels
Direct Current
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
Data Distribution Center
Digital Elevation Model
Distant Early Warning
Differential GPS
Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Information Systems Agency
Defense Information Systems Network
Defense Mapping Agency
Defense Message System
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Department of Defense
Detection Radar
Data Reduction Center
Defense Satellite Communication System
B-3 -
7/24/2003
DSCSOC
DSN
DSP
DSTS
DTED
DTRA
DTS
DWSW
DSCS Operations Center
Defense Switched Network
Defense Support Program
Deep Space Tracking System
Digital Terrain Elevation Data
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Diplomatic Telecommunications Service
Deployable Weather Satellite Workstation
E
e
EAC
EAM
EC
EDGE
EELV
EGS
EHF
EIRP
ELSET
EM
EMD
EMP
ENEC
EOSAT
EPDS
ERS-1
ERTS-A
ESA
ESSA
ET
ET
ETM+
ETRAC
ETUT
EUV
EVA
Eccentricity
Echelon Above Corps
Emergency Action Message
Earth Coverage
Exploitation of DGPS for Guidance Enhancement
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
European Ground Station
Extremely High Frequency
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
Element Set
Electromagnetic
Engineering and Manufacturing Development
Electromagnetic Pulse
Extendable Nozzle Exit Cone
Earth Observation Satellite
Electronic Processing and Dissemination System
European Remote Sensing Satellite
Earth Resources Technology Satellite-A
European Space Agency
Environmental Science Service Administration
External Tank
Extra-Terrestrial
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus
Enhanced Tactical Radar Correlator
Enhanced Tactical User Terminal
Extreme Ultraviolet
Extravehicular Activity
F
FAST
FAST
FBM
FDMA
FEP
AU Space Primer-
Forward Area Support Terminal
Forward Space Support in Theater
Fleet Ballistic Missile
Frequency Division Multiple Access
FLTSAT EHF Package
B-4 -
7/24/2003
FLTSAT
FLTSATCOM
FNMOC
FOSIC
FOV
FSSC
FSU
Fleet Satellite
Fleet Satellite Communications
Fleet Numerical Meteorological and Oceanographic Center
Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Center
Field-Of-View
Fleet Surveillance Support Command
Former Soviet Union
G
GATS
GBS
GCCS
GCN
GCNU
GCSS
GDA
GEO
GEODSS
GMF
GMS
GOES
GOTS
GPS
GPS MCS
GSD
GSSC
GSUs
GTO
B GPS-Aided Targeting System
Global Broadcast Service
Global Command and Control System
Ground Communications Network
Ground Communications Network Upgrade
Global Combat Support System
Gimbaled Dish Antenna
Geosynchronous Earth Orbit
Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance
Ground Mobile Forces
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
Government-off-the Shelf
Global Positioning System
GPS Master Control Station
Ground Sampling Distance
Global SATCOM Support Center
Geographically Separated Unit
Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
H
H2O
HEMP
HEO
HELSTF
HF
HRPT
HRV
HSD
HSI
HSMP
HSS
HST
Hydrogen Dioxide (Water)
High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse
Highly Elliptical Orbit
High Energy Laser System Test Facility
High Frequency
High Resolution Picture Transmission
High Resolution Visible
High Speed Data
Hyperspectral Imagery
High Speed Message Processor
High Speed Stream
Hubble Space Telescope
I
AU Space Primer-
B-5 -
7/24/2003
ICBM
ISR
ITW
ITW/AA
IUS
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance
Integrated Tactical Warning
Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment
Inertial Upper Stage
i
ICBM
ICDB
IDSCP
IFOV
IG
IGMDP
IGY
IMF
INMARSAT
INS
INSAT
Intelsat
IOC
IPL
IPO
IR
IRBM
IRS
Isp
ISS
ITAC
ITOS
IUS
Inclination
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Integrated Communications Database
Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program
Instantaneous Field of View
Intelligence Group
Integrated Guided Missile Development Program
International Geophysical Year
Interplanetary Magnetic Field
International Maritime Satellite
Inertial Navigation System
Indian National Satellite
International Telecommunications Satellite
Initial Operating Capability
Integrated Priority List
Integrated Program Office
Infrared
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
Specific Impulse
International Space Station
Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center
Improved TIROS Operational Satellite
Inertial Upper Stage
J
JASSM
JBS
JCS
JDAM
JEM
JIOC
JITI
JNTF
JRSC
JSCP
JSIPS
JSOW
AU Space Primer-
Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile
Joint Broadcast Service
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Direct Attack Munition
Japanese Experiment Module
Joint Information Operations Center
Joint In-Theater Injection
Joint National Test Facility
Jam Resistant Secure Communications
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
Joint Services Imagery Processing System
Joint Stand Off Weapon
B-6 -
7/24/2003
JSTARS/GSM
JTAGS
JTF-CND
JTFST
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System/Ground Support Module
Joint Tactical Ground Station
Joint Task Force - Computer Network Defense
Joint Task Force Satellite Terminal
K
K
KE
km
kW
kW/s
Kelvin
Kinetic Energy
Kilometer
Kilowatt
Kilowatts per Steradian
L
LAAS
LASS
LCC
LDR
LEGG
LEO
LF
LF
LH
LITVC
LLV
LMLV
LOC
LOX
LPD
LPI
LPS
LPSU
LS
LSD
LSMP
LSTT
LUF
LWIR
Local Area Augmentation System
Low-Altitude Space Surveillance System
Launch Control Center
Low Data Rate
Launch Ejection Gas Generator
Low Earth Orbit
Launch Facility
Low Frequency
Liquid Hydrogen
Liquid Injection Thrust Vector Control
Lockheed Launch Vehicle
Lockheed-Martin Launch Vehicle
Line of Communication
Liquid Oxygen
Low Probability of Detection
Low Probability of Intercept
Large Processing Station
Large Processing Station Upgrade
Light Smooth
Low Speed Data
Low Speed Message Processor
Light-Weight STT
Lowest Useable Frequency
Long Wave Infra-red
M
m
MAGR
MAJCOM
MBA
AU Space Primer-
Mass
Miniaturized Aircraft GPS Receiver
Major Command
Multiple Beam Antenna
B-7 -
7/24/2003
MC&G
MCC
MCS
MCS
MDM
MDR
MECA
MGS
MGS
MI
MIES
MILSATCOM
MIRV
MIT
MITT
MLRS
MOC
MOL
MOS/PIM
MOTIF
MPSOC
MR
MRBM
MSF
MSI
MSIP
MSS
MSS
MSTS
MT
MUF
MWIR
Mapping, Charting and Geodesy
Mission Control Center
Master Control Station
Mission Control Station
Mission Data Message
Medium Data Rate
Missile Electronics and Computer Assembly
Missile Guidance Set
Mobile Ground System
Military Intelligence
Modernized Imagery Exploitation System
Military Satellite Communications
Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mobile Integrated Tactical Terminal
Multiple Launch Rocket System
Milstar Operations Center
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Multiple Orbit Satellite/Program Improvement Module
Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
Multi-Purpose Satellite Operations Center
Mass Ratio
Medium Range Ballistic Missile
Milstar Support Facility
Multispectral Imagery
MSI Processor
Mobile Service System
Multispectral Scanner
Multi-Source Tactical System
Megaton
Maximum Useable Frequency
Medium Wave Infrared
N
NAVSPACECOM
NAVSPASUR
NCA
NIPC
NOAA
NORAD
NRO
NSWCDD
NWS
NACA
AU Space Primer-
Naval Space Command
Naval Space Surveillance Center
National Command Authority
National Infrastructure Protection Center
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
North American Aerospace Defense
National Reconnaissance Office
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
North Warning System
National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
B-8 -
7/24/2003
NASA
NASA
NATO
NAVASTROGRU
NAVSOC
NAVSPACE
NAVSPACECOM
NAVSPASUR
NAVSPOC
NAVSTAR GPS
NAVWAR
NCA
NDI
Ni-Cad
Ni-H2
NIMA
NIR
NITF
NM
NMCC
NNSS
NOAA
NORAD
NPIC
NPOESS
NRL
NRO
NSD
NSDD
NSPC
NSPD
NSST
NSTC
NTR
NUDET
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Navy Astronautics Group
Naval Satellite Operations Center
Naval Space Command
Naval Space Command
Naval Space Surveillance
Naval Space Operations Center
Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging Global Positioning System
Navigation Warfare
National Command Authority
Non-Developmental Item
Nickel-Cadmium
Nickel-Hydrogen
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Near Infrared
National Imagery Transmission Format
Nautical Mile
National Military Command Center
Navy Navigation Satellite
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
North American Aerospace Defense Command
National Photographic Interpretation Center
National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
Naval Research Laboratory
National Reconnaissance Office
National Security Directive
National Security Decision Directive
National Space Council
National Space Policy Directive
Naval Space Support Team
National Science and Technology Council
Nuclear Thermal Rocket
Nuclear Detection
O
O
O&M
O2
OC
OCC
OGS
OLS
AU Space Primer-
Oxygen molecule
Operations and Maintenance
Oxygen (gas)
Operations Center
Operations Control Center
Overseas Ground Station
Operational Linescan System
B-9 -
7/24/2003
OMS
OPCON
OPSEC
OSC
OTH-B
OUSDA&T
Orbital Maneuvering System
Operational Control
Operations Security
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Over-the-Horizon Backscatter
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology
P
PAR
PARCS
PBCS
PBV
PCA
PCM
P-code
PD
PDD
PE
PEC
PLGR
PMT
POES
PPS
PPSE
PPSW
PR
PRC
PRD
psi
PSRE
PUP
Phased Array Radar
Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System
Post Boost Control System
Post Boost Vehicle
Polar Cap Absorption
Phase-Change Material
precision code
Presidential Directive
Presidential Decision Directive
Potential Energy
Photoelectric Cell
Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver
Photo Multiplier Tube
Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite
Precise Positioning Service
PAVE PAWS South East
PAVE PAWS South West
Production Requirement
Peoples Republic of China
Presidential Review Directive
per square inch
Propulsion System Rocket Engine
Peripheral Upgrade Program
Q
QDR
QPSK
Quadrennial Defense Review
Quadra Phase Shift-Keyed
R
R&D
RAF
RAOC
RCMP
RDS
REACT
AU Space Primer-
Research and Development
Royal Air Force
Region Air Operations Center
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Real-time Data Smooth
Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting
B-10 -
7/24/2003
RFI
RGS
RISTA
RMS
ROCC
ROTHR
ROW
RSC
RSSC
RTC
RTD
RTG
Radio Frequency Interference
Relay Ground Stations
Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition
Remote Manipulator System
Region Operations Control Center
Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar
Rest-of-World
Reaction Control System
Regional SATCOM Support Center
Real-Time Command
Real-time Data Fine
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
S
S&T
SA
SAA
SAASM
SAGE
SAM
SAMT
SAOC
SAR
SAR
SAR
SAR
SATCOM
SATCON
SATRAN
SBIRS
SCC
SCG
SCI
SCIS
SCT
SDIO
SDS
SED
SEON
SEP
SEU
SG
SHF
SID
SIDEARM
AU Space Primer-
Science and Technology
Selective Availability
Satellite Access Authorization
Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
Surface-to-Air Missile
state-of-the-art Medium Terminal
Sector Air Operation Center
Satellite Access Request
Search and Rescue
Support Assistance Request
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Satellite Communications
Satellite Control
Satellite Reconnaissance Advance Notice
Space Based Infrared System
Space Control Center
Security Classification Guide
Sensitive Compartmented Information
Survivable Communications Integration System
Single Channel Transponder
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
Satellite Data System
Sensor Evolutionary Development
Solar Electro-Optical Network
Spherical Error Probable
Single Event Upset
Space Group
Super High Frequency
Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance
Secondary Imagery Dissemination Environment and Resource Manager
B-11 -
7/24/2003
SIGINT
SINCGARS
SIOP
SLBM
SLCM
SLCM
SLEP
SLGR
SLS
SMABC
SMDBL
SMDC
SOC
SOC
SOCC
SOH
SOI
SOM
SOPS
SOPS
SPAWAR
SPC
SPIN
SPO
SPOT
SPS
SPS
SPSS
SRBM
SRM
SRMU
SRS
SRSU
SSB
SSBN
SSC
SSDC
SSE
SSM/I
SSMA
SSN
START
STO
STS
STS
STT
AU Space Primer-
Signals Intelligence
Single Channel Ground and Air Radio System
Single Integrated Operations Plan
Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile
Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile
Service Life Enhancement Program
Small Lightweight GPS Receiver
Space Launch Squadron
Space and Missile Applications Basic Course
SMDC Battle Lab
Space and Missile Defense Command
Satellite Operations Center
Space Operations Center
Satellite Operations Control Center
State of Health
Space Object Identification
Satellite Operations Manager
Satellite Operations Squadron
Space Operations Squadron
Space and Naval Warfare
Stored Programs Command
SATCOM Planning Information Network
Special Projects Office
Satellite Pour L’Observation de la Terre
Simplified Processing Station
Standard Positioning Service
Space Surveillance Squadron
Short Range Ballistic Missile
Solid-Rocket Motor
Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade
Satellite Readout Station
SRS Upgrade
Solar Sector Boundary
Nuclear Capable Submarine
Space Surveillance Center
Space and Strategic Defense Command
SATCOM System Expert
Special Sensor Microwave Imager
Spread Spectrum Multiple Access
Space Surveillance Network
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Space Tasking Order
Space Transport System
Space Transportation System
Small Tactical Terminal
B-12 -
7/24/2003
SWC
SWF
SWIR
SWO
SWS
SWS
Space Warfare Center
Short Wave Fade
Shortwave Infrared
Space Weather Officer
Space Warning Squadron
Strategic Weapon System
T
T
T/R
TACDAR
TACSAT
TACSATCOM
TACTERM
TAOS
TASR
TAT-1
TBM
TCF
TDDS
TEC
TEC
TEL
TENCAP
TERCAT
TERCOM
TES
TIBS
TIROS
TLAM
TM
TMD
TOMS-EP
TOS
TR
TRADOC
TS
TSS
TT&C
TVC
Thrust
Transmit/Receive
Tactical Detection and Reporting
Tactical Satellite
Tactical Satellite Communications
Tactical Terminal
Technology for Autonomous Operational Survivability
Tactical Automated Situational Receiver
Transatlantic Telephone (first cable)
Tactical Ballistic Missile
Technical Control Facility
Tactical Data Dissemination System
Topographic Engineering Center
Total Electron Content
Transporter-Erector-Launcher
Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities
Terrain Categorization
Terrain Contour Matching
Theater Event System
Tactical Information Broadcast Service
Television and Infrared Operational Satellite
Tomahawk Land Attack Missile
Thematic Mapper
Theater Missile Defense
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe
TIROS Operational System
Tracking Radar
Training and Doctrine Command
Thermal Smooth
Tri-band SATCOM Sub-system
Telemetry, Tracking and Commanding
Thrust Vector Control
U
UCP
UDMH
UE
AU Space Primer-
Unified Command Plan
Unsymmetrical Dimethyldrazine
User Equipment
B-13 -
7/24/2003
UHF F/O
UHF
UN
USA
USAF
USCENTCOM
USCINCSPACE
USMC
USSPACECOM
USSTRATCOM
UTC
UV
UHF Follow-On
Ultra-High Frequency
United Nations
US Army
US Air Force
US Central Command
CINC, United States Space Command
US Marine Corps
US Space Command
US Strategic Command
Coordinated Universal Time
Ultraviolet
V
VHF
VLF
Very High Frequency
Very-Low Frequency
W
WAAS
WAGE
WEFAX
WSMR
Wide Area Augmentation System
Wide Area GPS Enhancement
Weather Facsimile
White Sands Missile Range
TOC
AU Space Primer-
B-14 -
7/24/2003