| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program |
| APARE | Asian/Pacific Regional Experiment |
| NIU | Network Interface Unit |
| AU | Astronomical Unit |
| DFDR | Digital Flight Data Recorder |
| GREM | Geopotential Research Explorer Mission |
| SPACE | Satellite Precipitaion And Cloud Experiment |
| S/TM | Stratospheric/tropospheric Measurements |
| GLAS | Goddard Laboratory For Atmospheric Science |
| VM/CMS | Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System |