| Acronym | Meaning |
| SHARE | Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element |
| MACRO | Monopoles |
| OGO | Orbiting Geosurvey Observatories |
| MTPE | Mission To Planet Earth |
| TKSC | Tsukuba Space Center |
| FRSI | Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation |
| ISAS | Institute Of Space AND Astronautical Science |
| PN | Planetary Nebula |
| NACA | National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |