| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAL | Continental Air Lines |
| AL/APD | ALO Advance Planning Division |
| SBF | Scientific Balloon Facility |
| USC-GARP | United States Committee For GARP |
| GISMOS | Global Incoherent Scatter Measurements Of Substorms |
| NRSC | National Remote Sensing Centre |
| NPOP | NASA Polar Orbiting Platform |
| MOM | Mission Operations Manager |
| ITWIS | Integrated Terminal Weather Information System |
| LITE | Lidar In Space Technology Experiment |