| Acronym | Meaning |
| KNET/SPARTACUS | N/A |
| IFREMER | Institut Francais Re'checche Pour L'Exploitation De La Mer |
| ARES | Advanced Reentry System |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| SISEX | Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment |
| BRAVE | Boeing Robotic Air Vehicle |
| STOL | Short Takeoff And Landing |
| GED | Global Ecosystem Dynamics |
| THERMEX | Thermal Wave Experiment |
| ELP | Emission Line Polarimeter |