| Acronym | Meaning |
| WUPPE | Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment |
| GEODSS | Ground-based Electro-optical Deep-space Surveillance System |
| REM | Rat Enclosure Module |
| FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph |
| GMS | Geostationary Meterological Satellite |
| JSC | Johnson Space Center |
| ROUS | Rodents Of Unusual Size |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring By Occultation Of Stars |
| CIS | Commonwealth Of Independent States |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency |