| Acronym | Meaning |
| RCI | Rodent Cage Interface |
| FRF | Flight Readiness Firing |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| IPAC | Infrared Processing & Analysis Center |
| CM | Center Of Mass |
| CITA | Canadian Institute For Theoretical Astrophysics |
| INCO | Integrated Communications Officer |
| GBT | Green Bank Telescope |
| ORFEUS | Orbiting And Retrievable Far And Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer |
| VRM | Venus Radar Mapper |