| Acronym | Meaning |
| BNI | Bechtel National |
| ELVD | Every Launch Vehicle Directorate |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| LASP | Laboratory For Atmospheric And Space Physics |
| BACER | Biological & Climatological Effects Research |
| APJ | The Astrophysical Journal |
| O AND E | Operations And Equipment |
| SZOLD | Skewed Zeroth Order Logaorithmic Distribution Function |
| DOD | Digital Omega Dropwindsonde |
| SARSAT | Search And Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking |