| Acronym | Meaning |
| GAU | General Accounting Unit |
| MSISR | Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar |
| NTTF | NASA Test And Training Facility |
| CD | Compact Disk |
| DSM | Demonstration Support Model |
| FLD | First Level Destination |
| F | Femto |
| DC | Dublin Core--metadata |
| ASTERIX | French Acronym For ELDORA |
| ALE/GAGE | Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |