| Acronym | Meaning |
| INCO | Integrated Communications Officer |
| SOCC | Satellite Operations Control Center |
| FEM | Flight-Engineering Model |
| CCRS | Canada Centre For Remote Sensing |
| OSSE | Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment |
| FRF | Flight Readiness Firing |
| NPO | Scientific Production Organization |
| PPF | Columbus Polar Platform |
| LLNL | Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory |
| HMC | Halley Multicolor Camera |