| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPI | Electronic Position Indicator |
| EMA | Electrodynamics Of The Middle Atmosphere |
| WFF | Wallops Flight Facility |
| ACG | Advanced Computing Group |
| ESA | Engineering Support Activity |
| FS | Flight Segment |
| BCWS | Budgeted Cost For Work Scheduled |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| SAFARI-2000 | The Southern African Regional Science Initiative |
| APLJHU | Applied Physics Laboratory John Hopkins University |