| Acronym | Meaning |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| GOES | Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
| MACS | Modular Attitude Control System |
| GRTLS | Glide RTLS |
| DEC | Declination |
| PDRS | Payload Deployment And Retrieval System |
| RAS | Royal Astronomical Society |
| OTHB | Over The Horizon Backscatter |
| RNGC | Revised New General Catalog |
| SPAN | Space Physics And Analysis Network |