| Acronym | Meaning |
| SETA | Satellite Electrostatic Triaxial Accelerometer |
| EMA | Extended Memory Addressing |
| AMPE | Automated Message Processing Exchange |
| HSI | High-speed Interferometer |
| ARL | Air Resources Laboratory |
| SCARAB | Scanner For Radiation Budget |
| PETS | Performance Evaluation And Test System |
| MAB | Meteorological Applications Branch |
| ATMOS | Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed By Spectroscopy |
| ACF | Automatic Control Feature |