| Acronym | Meaning |
| SPARTAN | Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool For Astronomy |
| PN | Planetary Nebula |
| STC | Stennis Test Center |
| HSP | High Speed Photometer |
| CCAFS | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station |
| HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment |
| GUGK | Glavnoye Upravileniye Geodesii I Kartografii |
| NSO | National Solar Observatory |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |
| GST | Greenwich Sidereal Time |