| Acronym | Meaning |
| HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| CHARA | Center For High Angular Resolution Astronomy |
| JILA | Joint Institute For Laboratory Astrophysics |
| SIRTF | Space InfraRed Telescope Facility |
| CRAF | Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby |
| SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor |
| ALS | Advanced Launch System |
| GHRS | Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |