| Acronym | Meaning |
 | SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
 | PEPPI | Photometric Eclipse Polar Plume Imager |
 | RMC | RAF Management Council |
 | HMS | Hungarian Meteorological Service |
 | DMAIAGS | Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
 | NROSS | Naval Remote Ocean Sensing System |
 | AISC | Industry |
 | ALAP | As Low As Practical |
 | DTC | Developmental Testbed Center |
 | GDR | Geophysical Data Record |