| Acronym | Meaning |
| ESTEC | European Space Research And Space Technology Centre |
| ILP | International Lithosphere Programme |
| VNIRO | Russian Federal Research Institute Of Fisheries And Oceanography |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| ESFU | Enhanced Standard Format Unit |
| AMS | Appraisal Management System |
| NOVAM | Navy Oceanographic Vertical Aerosol Model |
| PISP | Polar Ice Sheet Program |
| EEPROM | Electronically Eraseable And Programmable Read Only Memory |
| TROMEX | Tropical Meteorology Experiment |