| Acronym | Meaning |
| FILOS | Far Infrared Limb Observing Spectrometer |
| BUREC | Bureau Of Reclamation |
| N-ROSS | Naval Research Oceanographic Satellite System |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| INU | Inertial Navigation Unit |
| ADARS | Aircraft Data Acquisition And Recoding System |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface |
| TBM | Terabit Memory System |
| APDCS | Axial Power Distribution Monitoring System |
| ESDIM | Earth System Data And Information Management |