| Acronym | Meaning |
| JCMT | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope |
| FRR | Flight-Readiness Review |
| SSRV | Solar-Sail Race Vehicle |
| IAPPP | International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry |
| SR | Special Relativity |
| CRAF | Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby |
| PPM | Positions And Proper Motions (catalog) |
| OAO | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observations System |