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Acronyms
AAAC Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
ACE Advanced Composition Explorer (spacecraft)
ADEPT Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope
AFRI
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMS Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
AO announcement of opportunity
BEPAC Beyond Einstein Program Assessment Committee
CDR climate data record
CEES Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences (under OSTP)
CINDI Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (French National Space Agency)
C/NOFS Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System
DESTINY mission concept for the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOC Department of Commerce
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DSN Deep Space Network
EMI electromagnetic interference
EOS Earth Observing System
ERTS-1 Earth Resources Technology Satellite; renamed Landsat 1
ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus; an instrument on Landsat 7
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
Fermi Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope; formerly known as GLAST
FOC full operating capability
GAO Government Accountability Office
GLAST Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope; now Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOESS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
HEPAP High Energy Physics Advisory Panel
ICR initial confirmation review
ICRR initial confirmation readiness review
IPO integrated program office
ISOC Instrument Science Operations Center
ISS International Space Station
ISWG Interim Science Working Group
Jason series of Earth observation satellites for oceanic measurements; also known as OSTM, the Ocean Surface Topography Mission
JDEM Joint Dark Energy Mission
JHU Johns Hopkins University
JOG Joint Oversight Group
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
L1 Earth-Sun Lagrangian Point 1; a gravitationally stable point approximately 1.5 million km from Earth in the direction of the Sun
Landsat series of Earth-imaging satellites
LAT Large Area Telescope; main instrument of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LDCM Landsat Data Continuity Mission
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LV launch vehicle
Mir decommissioned Russian space station
MODIS Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOU memorandum of understanding
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nimbus Series of satellites for meteorological research and development
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project
NPR NASA Procedural Requirement
NRC National Research Council
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OSIP Operational Satellite Improvement Program
OSTM Ocean Surface Topography Mission
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
PDD Presidential Decision Directive
PDD/NSTC-2 Convergence of NPOESS
PDD/NSTC-3 Landsat Remote Sensing Strategy
PDR preliminary design review
PI principal investigator
POES Polar Operational Environmental Satellite
QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer; Earth-observing satellite measuring wind data over oceans
RADARSAT-1 Canadian Earth-observation satellite equipped with synthetic aperture radar
RF radio frequency
SACHS Southern Area Consortium of Human Services
SAGENAP Scientific Assessment Group for Experiments in Non-Accelerator Physics
SDT Science Definition Team
SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor; instrument on OrbView-2 (aka SeaStar)
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; renamed SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
SLC Stanford Linear Collider
SNAP Supernovae Acceleration Probe
SPIRES Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System
SRR systems requirements review
STP Space Test Program
TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TOPEX/Poseidon Joint NASA/CNES ocean surface topography mapping mission; succeeded by Jason-1 and Jason-2/OSTM
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USAF United States Air Force
USGCRP United States Global Change Research Program
USGS United States Geological Survey
UTD University of Texas at Dallas
WFIRST Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope
WMAP Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
