| Acronym | Meaning |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (launch |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc-Read Only Memory |
| AURA | Association Of Universities For Research In Astronomy |
| ERSC | Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES) |
| ECMWF | European Centre For Medium-range Weather Forecasts |
| XBSS | X-ray Background Survey Spectrometer |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS) |
| IRIS | Infrared Radiation Interferometer Spectrometer (1960s) |
| MB/S | Megabytes Per Second |
| TIROS | Television InfraRed Observation Satellite (POES) |