| Acronym | Meaning |
| LST | Local Sidereal Time |
| PAM-D | Payload Assist Module |
| CRIM | Commercial Refrigerator Incubator Module |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph |
| PV | Photovoltaic |
| MOPITT | Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere |
| HDM | Hot Dark Matter |
| LLNL | Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| CHARA | Center For High Angular Resolution Astronomy |