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Acronyms and abbreviations LAUNCH VEHICLE CATALOGUE ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AACS AADC AFB AFRL AFS AKM AMS ASAP ASLV AVUM ATV Airborne Air Conditioning System ALASKA Aerospace Development Corporation Air Force Base Air Force Research Laboratory Air Force Station Apogee Kick Motor Apogee and Manoeuvering Stage Ariane System for Auxiliary Payloads Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle Attitude and Vernier Upper Module Automated Transfer Vehicle BAF BEAP BECO BIL BIP BLS BPE BPJ BWYIC Bâtiment Assemblage Final Banc d’Essais des Accélérateurs à Poudre Booster Engine Cut Off Bâtiment Integration Lanceur Bâtiment Intégration Propulseurs Boeing Launch Services Bâtiment de Préparation Etage Booster Package Jettison Beijing Wan Yuan Industry Corporation, newly the CALT CALT CASC CAST CBC CBO CCAM CCAFS CCB CDL CELV CFRP CGWIC CIS CLTC CNES COG COSTIND CPKM CSD CSG CTPB CZ China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology Academy of China AeroSpace Corporation China Academy of Space Technology Common Booster Core Congressional Budget Office Collision Contamination Avoidance Manoeuvre Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Common Core Booster Centre De Lancement Complementary Expendable Launch Vehicle Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic China Great Wall Industry Corporation Commonwealth of Independent States China satellite Launch and Tracking Control Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales Centre Of Gravity Commission Of Science Technology and Industry for National Defence LM-2C Perigee Kick Motor Chemical Systems Division Centre Spatial Guyanais Carboxy Terminated PolyButadiene Chang Zheng ( = Long March = LM) DARPA DEC DIGS DOC DoD DUF Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Dual Engine Centaur Delta Inertial Guidance System Delta Operations Center Department of Defense Dynamic Uncertainty Factor EADS ST European Aeronautics Defence and Space Space Transportation Etage d'Accélération à Poudre Solid Booster Stage Encapsulated Cargo Element Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Ensemble de Lancement Ariane Eastern Launch Site Expendable Launch Vehicle ElectroMagnetic Interference Etage Principal Cryotechnique (Main Cryogenic Stage) Ensemble de Préparation des Charges Utiles LM-2 E Perigee Kick Motor EAP ECE EELV ELA ELS ELV EMI EPC EPCU EPKM December 2003 EPM EPS ETR Extended Payload Module Etage à Propergols Stockables (Storage Propellant Stage) European Space Agency Eastern Space and Missile Center (Includes Cape Canaveral Air Force station = CCAFS and NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida = KSC Eastern Test Range (Now ESMC, since 1982) FB FC FMH FPR FY Feng Bao ( = Storm) Flight Computer Free Molecular Heating Flight Performance Reserve Fiscal Year GACS GEO GPS GSLV GTO GWD Ground Air Conditioning System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Global Positioning System Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit Ground Wind Damper HAPS HIF HPPM HTPB HLV HOPE Hydrazine Auxiliary Propulsion System Horizontal Integration Facility High Performance Propulsion Module Hydroxyl Terminated PolyButadiene Heavy Lift Vehicle H-2 Orbiting Plane I ICBM IFM IGS IHI ILS IMU INU IRBM IREX IRIS ISAS ISRO ITL IUS Inclination Inter Continental Ballistic Missile InterFace Module Inertial Guidance System Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries International Launch Services Inertial Measurement Unit Inertial Navigation Unit Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile ISRO’s Range compleX Italian Research Interim Stage Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Indian Space Research Organization Integrate, Transfer and Launch facility Inertial Upper Stage JMA JSLC Japan Meteorological Agency Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center KLC KSC KSC Kodiak Launch Complex Kagoshima Space Centre Kennedy Space Center LAP LC LCC LCMC LEO LEV LEV LH2 LITVC LKEI LLV LM LMCLS LMLV LNG LO2 Launch Assist Platform Launch Complex Launch Control Center Launch Control and Management Center Low Earth Orbit Launch Equipment Van Launch Equipment Vault Liquid Hydrogen Liquid Injection TVC Lockheed-Khrunichev Energia International Lockheed Launch Vehicle Long March Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle Liquified Natural Gas Liquid Oxygen ESA ESMC Page 1 LPF LRBM LSE LSS LSV LV Large Payload Fairing Low Range Ballistic Missile Launch Support Equipment Launch Service Structure Launch Support Van Launch Vehicle MAB MAU MDF MECO MHI MLV MMH MNTVC MPF MST Main Assembly Building Million Accounting Units Mild Detonating Fuse Main Engine Cut Off Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Medium Lift Vehicle Mono Methyl Hydrazine Movable Nozzle TVC Medium Payload Fairing Mobile Service Tower N/A NASA NASDA NCS NUS Not Applicable National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Space Development Agency Nutation Control System No Upper Stage OAM OASLP OCA OCT OIS OMS OSC OV Orbital Adjust Module Overall Acoustic Sound Level Pressure Orbital Carrier Aircraft OCTave Orbit Insertion Stage Orbital Manoeuvering System Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Vehicle PAF PAGE PAL PAM PAP PASS PBAN PEO PLF PPF PSLV PSW Payload Attach Fitting Programmable Aerospace Ground Equipment Propulseur d’Appoint à Liquides Payload Assist Module Propulseur d’Appoint à Poudre Payload Assist Subsystem PolyButadiene AcryloNitrite (Acrylic Nitrite) Polar Earth Orbit Payload Fairing Payload Processing Facilities Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Payload System Weight RAAN RCS RFI RIFCA RJ 1 RP1 RPM RSC Right Ascension of Ascending Node Reaction Control System Radio Frequency Interference Redundant Inertial Flight Control Assembly Kerosene Kerosene Revolution (s) Per Minute Rocket System Corporation SAC SAST Space Activities Commission Shangaï Academy of Space Technology, also known as the SBA Shangaï Bureau of Astronautics, also known as the SAST Spacecraft Customer Shuttle Compatible Orbital Transfer Subsystem Smart Dispenser Support Equipment Building Single Engine Centaur Sustainer Engine Cut Off Société Européenne de Propulsion Space Flyer Unit Sriharikota High Altitude Range Space Launch Complex Shanxi Liquid Rocket Engine Co. Space Launch Vehicle SBA SCC SCOTS SD SEB SEC SECO SEP SFU SHAR SLC SLREC SLV December 2004 SM SMAB SMRC SOB SPELDA SPELTRA SPILMA SPM SPROB SRB SRC SRM SRMU SRS SSLV SSO STEX STS STV SYLDA Acronyms and abbreviations San Marco complex Solid Motor Assembly Building Solid Motor for Roll Control Strap On Booster Structure Proteuse Externe pour Lancement Double ARIANE (ARIANE Dual Launch External Bearing Structure) Structure Porteuse En Lancement TRiple ARIANE Structure Porteuse Interne Lancement Multiple ARIANE Standard Payload Module Solid PROpellant space Booster plant Solid Rocket Booster State Rocket Center Solid Rocjet Motor Solid Rocket Motor Uprated (Upgrade) Shock Response Spectrum Standard Small Launch Vehicle Sun Synchronous Orbit Static Test & Evaluation compleX Space Transportation System Satellite Transfer Vehicle SYstème de Lancement Double ARIANE ARIANE Dual Launch System TBD TOS TP-H TS TS TSLC TT&C TT&C TVC To Be Defined Transfer Orbit Stage Hydroxyl Terminated Polybutadiene Top Stage TranStage Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Telemetry Tracking & Command Telemetry Tracking & Control Thrust Vector Control UDMH UPG USAF USTM UTC Unsymetrical DiMetyl Hydrazine Usine Propergol Guyane US Air Force Unified Satellite Transfer Module System United Technologies Corporation VAFB VEB VIB VIS VLS Vanderberg Air Force Base Vehicle Equipment Bay Vertical Integration Building Vibration Isolation System Vehiculo Lançador de Satellites XSLC Xichang Satellite Launch Center WFF WI WSMC WTR Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island, Va Western Space and Missile Center Western Test Range (Now WSMC, since 1982) YF Yei-ti Fa-dong-ji ( = liquid stage engine) ZL ZP Zone de Lancement Zone de Préparation Page 2
