| Acronym | Meaning |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph |
| SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly / Single Access Antenna |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer |
| ARRL | American Radio Relay League |
| USA/RC | Universities Space Automation/Robotics Consortium |
| REM | Rat Enclosure Module |
| TTC | Telemetry |
| FEM | Flight-Engineering Model |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |