| Acronym | Meaning |
| ROPCOM | Remote OPCM |
| IFD | In-flight Deployment |
| JASON | Group Of Physicists At Stanford That Study Various Projects And Are Funded By Government Defense Money |
| VTPR | Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer |
| LDA | Local Data Acquisition |
| ALPS | Alternate Launch Point System |
| GAMETAG | Global Atmospheric Measurements Experiment On Tropospheric Aerosols And Gases |
| GOST | Goals Objectives Strategies Tactics |
| MATR | MOPITT Algorithm Test Radiometer |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research |