| Acronym | Meaning |
| QDR | Qualification Design Review |
| PETN | Petaerythrite Tetranitrate |
| MET | Mission Elapsed Time |
| SL | SPacelab |
| T/R | Transformer Rectifier |
| GDX | Goldstone |
| SL&I | System Load And Initialization |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| ECF | Equivalency Capability File |
| PLGSS | Payload Ground Support Systems |