AAS | American Astronomical Society |
ADR | active debris removal |
AFSPC | Air Force Space Command |
AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
ALTAIR | ARPA Long-Range Tracking and Instrumentation Radar |
Ames | Ames Research Center |
AMOR | Advanced Meteor Orbit Radar |
APA | Administrative Procedure Act |
ARTEMIS | Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun |
ASAT | anti-satellite |
ASEB | Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board |
BLE | ballistic limit equation |
CA | Conjunction Assessment |
CARA | Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observations Satellites |
COLA | Launch Collision Avoidance |
COSPAR | Committee on Space Research |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DAS | Debris Assessment Software |
DLR | German Aerospace Center |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DPE | damage predictor equation |
EMP | electromagnetic pulse |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESD | electrostatic discharge |
EVA | extravehicular activity |
EVOLVE | 2-dimensional Evolutionary Debris Model |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
GEO | geosynchronous/geostationary Earth orbit |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement (mission) |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
HAX | Haystack Auxiliary |
HITF | Hypervelocity Impact Technology Facility |
HPLA | high power large aperture radar |
HRMP | Harvard Radio Meteor Project |
HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
HVIT | Hypervelocity Impact Technology |
IADC | Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee |
IAF | International Astronautical Federation |
IDP | interplanetary dust particle |
IFM | Interplanetary Flux Model |
ISS | International Space Station |
ITAR | International Traffic in Arms Regulations |
JSC | Johnson Space Center |
JSpOC | Joint Space Operations Center |
KSC | Kennedy Space Center |
LARC | Langley Research Center |
LDEF | Long Duration Exposure Facility |
LEGEND | LEO-to-GEO Environment Debris model |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LMT | Liquid Mirror Telescope |
LSC | UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee of Committee on the Peaceful Purposes of Space |
LSP | Launch Services Program |
MCAT | Meter-Class Autonomous Telescope |
MCSurv | Manned Spacecraft and Crew Survivability |
MEM | Meteoroid Environment Model |
MEO | Meteoroid Environment Office |
MMOD | meteoroid and orbital debris |
MODEST | Michigan Orbital Debris Survey Telescope |
MSCSurv | Manned Spacecraft and Crew Survivability code |
MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
NaK | sodium potassium |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NORAD | North American Aerospace Defense Command |
NRC | National Research Council |
NRO | National Reconnaissance Office |
OCM | Orbit Conjunction Messages |
OCT | Office of the Chief Technologist |
OD | orbital debris |
ODA | orbital debris assessment |
ODPO | Orbital Debris Program Office |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
ORDEM | Orbital Debris Environment Model |
ORSAT | Object Reentry Survival Analysis Tool |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
Pc | probability of collision |
PRA | probabilistic risk analysis/assessment |
PSFT | Propulsion Systems Foundation Technology |
PVDF | polyvinylidene fluoride |
RCS | radar cross-section |
RORSAT | Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite |
SBM | standard breakup model |
SBRAM | Satellite Breakup Assessment Model |
SDA | Space Data Association |
SDC | Space Data Center |
SEM | Size Estimation Model |
SGP4 | Simplified General Perturbations 4 |
SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
SOCIT | Satellite Orbital Debris Characterization Impact Test |
SP | special perturbations |
SSN | Space Surveillance Network |
STD | NASA Technical Standard |
STSC | UNCOPUOS Science and Technology Subcommittee |
TLE | two-line element set |
TRL | technology readiness level |
UN | United Nations |
UNCOPUOS | UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space |
UNGA | UN General Assembly |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |
USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
USSTRATCOM | U.S. Strategic Command |