| Acronym | Meaning |
| FLAGE | Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment |
| GDP | Ground Data Processor |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| ANTARES | Advanced Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Simulator |
| PSN | Piano Spaziale Nazionale |
| OCTS | Ocean Color And Temperature Scanner |
| NAILS | NCAR Airborne Infrared Lidar System |
| AGS | Alternating-gradient Synchrotron |
| LRIR | Limb Radiance Inversion (or Infrared) Radiometer |
| WWW | World Weather Watch |