| Acronym | Meaning |
| TWTA | Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier |
| OCST | Office Of Commercial Space Transportation |
| OARE | Orbital Acceleration Research Experiment |
| SWAN | Solar Wind Anisotropy Experiment |
| COSTAR | Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement |
| MODE | Middeck Zero-Gravity Dynamics Experiment |
| EUV | Extreme UltraViolet |
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| PAM | Payload Assist Module |
| VPF | Vertical Processing Facility |