| Acronym | Meaning |
| LDS | Loral Defense Systems |
| PACLAT | Pacific Latitudinal Distribution Of Photochemical Trace Species |
| AOS/VS | Advanced Operating System/virtual Storage |
| ACBM | Asbestos-containing Building Material |
| AMS | Applied Mathematical Science |
| EMACS | An On-line Text Editor Distributed As Part Of The GNU Package Of UNIX Software |
| ADEPT | Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype |
| SID | Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance |
| NCIS | Nadir Climate Interferometer Spectrometer |
| MCC | Mission Control Center |