| Acronym | Meaning |
| BUS | Business Operations |
| MOPS | Millions Of Operations (106) Per Second |
| HRSR | High Resolution Scanning Radiometer |
| PC | Continuous Pulsations |
| RAMOS | Remote Automatic Meteorological Observing Station |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| ESL | Earth Sciences Laboratories |
| BCD | Binary-coded Decimal |
| KBYTE | Kilobyte (103) |
| AFNB | US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board |