| Acronym | Meaning |
| DDTE | Design |
| SAA | South Atlantic Anomaly / Single Access Antenna |
| OCGF | Organic Crystal Growth Facility |
| BECO | Booster Engine Cutoff |
| MCCC | Maragone Convection On Closed Containers |
| PDRS | Payload Deployment And Retrieval System |
| LH | Liquid Hydrogen |
| APM | Attached Pressurized Module (a.k.a. Columbus) |
| AJ | Astronomical Journal |
| BATSE | Burst And Transient Source Experiment |