| Acronym | Meaning |
| FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observations System |
| STARCAL | Star Calibration |
| DFRC | Dryden Flight Research Center |
| FGS | Fine Guidance Sensors |
| EOSP | Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter |
| ASS | Antenna Support Structure |
| CRL | Communication Research Lab |
| FHST | Fixed Head Star Trackers |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |