| Acronym | Meaning |
| LAS | LAGEOS Apogee Stage |
| STIP | Study Of Traveling Interplanetary Phenomena |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| TAR | Third Assessment Report |
| KDP | Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate |
| TUC | Traingle Universities Consortium |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| SI | Systeme International |
| DSN | Deep Space Network |
| USFS | United States Forest Service |