Abbreviations

[Sedna123]

I have started this discussion to learn the space abbreviations such as LEO(Low Earth Orbit) and NEOs(Near Earth Objects). Please could you post some more. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><u>Who says the impossible isn't really impossible?</u></p> </div>

 

[crazyeddie]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>I have started this discussion to learn the space abbreviations such as LEO(Low Earth Orbit) and NEOs(Near Earth Objects). Please could you post some more. <br /> Posted by Sedna123</DIV></p><p>OK, but just remember, you asked for it: &nbsp;<img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px" class="Apple-style-span"><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td><strong>A&A:&nbsp;</strong>

 

[SpeedFreek]

<p><font size="4">WMAP = Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</font></p><p><em>(how did that list miss one of the most important experiments?)&nbsp;</em></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000">_______________________________________________<br /></font><font size="2"><em>SpeedFreek</em></font> </p> </div>

 

[robnissen]

<p><font size="3">Come on CrazyEddie, don't just post a couple of acronyms, put up an exhaustive list.&nbsp; <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" />&nbsp;</font></p>

 

[Sedna123]

This is the first time i've looked since i posted and thanks crazy eddie! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><u>Who says the impossible isn't really impossible?</u></p> </div>

 

[DrRocket]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>OK, but just remember, you asked for it: ...Posted by crazyeddie</DIV></p><p>Wow.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is a very good list.&nbsp; I certainly could not come with a better, or more nearly complete, one.</p><p>But folks who are not used to the extreme alphabet soup of the aerospace business should be warned of the fact that acronyms are a bit dependent on the context.&nbsp; It is not uncommon for there to published at the start of a new program an official government list of acronyms.&nbsp; That is because the services and NASA are a bit taken with acronyms, there are only so many short permutations of letters of the alphabet available, and sometimes the same acronym is used on different programs to mean different things.&nbsp; Occasionally different acronyms mean the same things.&nbsp; So, even with as fine a dictionary as crazyeddie has compiled, sometimes you just have to ask the source of the acronym what it really means.&nbsp; Often acronyms are made up on the fly and don't occur in any known list.&nbsp; </p><p>It is also good advice for one to mix a few actual words in with the acronyms for the sake of clarity.</p><p>The LOA from CE is VG, but KISS and DGOB.&nbsp; </p><p><br /><br />&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[3488]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'><font color="#ff0000">Wow.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is a v................................................<br /> Posted by DrRocket</font></DIV></p><p><font size="2"><strong>I second that DrRocket.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Great post Crazyeddie. Not a lot at all left out.<br /></strong></font> </p><p><font size="2"><strong>I can add only a few.<br /></strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>HiRISE: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment.&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2">IMP: Imager for Mars Pathfinder.&nbsp;</font></strong></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MPF:&nbsp; Mars PathFinder.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MERA: Mars Exloration Rover A Spirit.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MERB: Mars Exploration Rover B Opportunity.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MESSENGER: <u>ME</u>rcury <u>S</u>urface <u>S</u>pace <u>EN</u>vironment <u>GE</u>ochemistry & <u>R</u>anging.<br /></strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MEX: Mars Express.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MRO: Mars Recconaissance Orbiter.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MO: Mars Odyssey.&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>PHX: Mars <u>PH</u>oeni<u>X</u> Lander.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>VL1: Viking Lander 1</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>VL2: Viking Lander 2</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>VO1: Viking Orbiter 1</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>VO2: Viking Orbiter 2&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>You'll notice some are recycled as Crazyeddie has showed.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>SSI was certainly the Solid State Imager on Galilleo, providing humanity with the closest views of the Jovian system to date & the first ever close up proper images of any asteroids these being main belt asteroids 243 Ida & 951 Gaspra (both were shown in stunning detail, very impressive for first attempts).</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Also SSI is Stereo Surface Imager on Mars Phoenix Lander, also providing stunning imagery, this time of the arctic region on Mars from ground level for the very frst time.</strong></font></p><p><font size="2"><strong>MO was Mars Observer, now used on Mars Odyssey. The original MO fell silent at the start of MOI (Mars Orbital Insertion, another acronym for you there), with suspected fuel line leak. The current MO, is hugely successful & has far exceeded all expectations with a second hugely extended mission recently granted.&nbsp;</strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2">Oh BTW (By The Way), don't forget LOL: Laugh Out Loud. </font></strong> <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/Content/images/store/14/11/ce5bf18f-fcaf-4238-bba1-b4b424065d6b.Medium.gif" alt="" /><strong><font size="2"><br /></font></strong></p><p><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[derekmcd]

<p>Here's a few off the top of my head I didn't see on the list:&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>UHECR - Ultra high energy cosmic ray</p><p>LHC - Large Hadron Collider</p><p>Quasar - Quasi stellar radio source</p><p>QSO - Qausi stellar object (same as quasar)&nbsp;</p><p>CDM - Cold dark matter (as in the LambdaCDM model)</p><p>SNe - Supernovae (plural)</p><p>SDC - Space dot com (how could they forget that one?)</p><p>GUT - Grand Unified Theory</p><p>ToE - Theory of everything</p><p>ToE - Theory of evolution&nbsp; </p><p>CMB - Cosmic microwave background radiation (they have CMBR, but you will see CMB quite often and even CBR)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div> </div><br /><div><span style="color:#0000ff" class="Apple-style-span">"If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing." - Homer Simpson</span></div> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

<p>A few from my world</p><p>NAMN= North American Meteor Network</p><p>AMS = Ameican Meteor Society, American Meteoroloical Society</p><p>ZHR = Zenithal Hourly Rate</p><p>AAAS = American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of <em>Science</em>)</p><p>NEO = Near Earth Object</p><p>NEA = Near Earth Asteroid</p><p>NEC = Near Earth Comet</p><p>PHA = Potentially Hazardouis Asteroid</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[UFmbutler]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Wow.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is a very good list.&nbsp; I certainly could not come with a better, or more nearly complete, one.But folks who are not used to the extreme alphabet soup of the aerospace business should be warned of the fact that acronyms are a bit dependent on the context.&nbsp; It is not uncommon for there to published at the start of a new program an official government list of acronyms.&nbsp; That is because the services and NASA are a bit taken with acronyms, there are only so many short permutations of letters of the alphabet available, and sometimes the same acronym is used on different programs to mean different things.&nbsp; Occasionally different acronyms mean the same things.&nbsp; So, even with as fine a dictionary as crazyeddie has compiled, sometimes you just have to ask the source of the acronym what it really means.&nbsp; Often acronyms are made up on the fly and don't occur in any known list.&nbsp; It is also good advice for one to mix a few actual words in with the acronyms for the sake of clarity.The LOA from CE is VG, but KISS and DGOB.&nbsp; &nbsp; <br /> Posted by DrRocket</DIV></p><p>I can definitely attest to that.&nbsp; At LANL I worked in ISR-1, and I never knew what it stood for until a few weeks after I started.&nbsp; Apparently it means International, Space, and Response...whatever that means.&nbsp; Also, instead of downtown, downtown Los Alamos is referred to as TA-0(or 00, I forget), seriously everything is a TA-something. &nbsp; You will often find that many people who use the acronyms have no idea what they mean, so sometimes asking doesn't solve anything.&nbsp; <br /> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[silylene old]

<p>VUV - vacuum ultraviolet&nbsp;&nbsp; (about 50 - 190 nm light)</p><p>ev - electron volt</p><p>SA - re-entry vehicle part of a Soyuz, a Russian acronym, I don't know the letters</p><p>PAO - service module of a Soyuz (<font size="2"><em>Priborno-Agregatniy Otsek - </em>I had to look that up!)</font></p><p><font size="2">BO - the inhabited orbiting module part of a Russian craft or Soyuz</font></p><p><font size="2">UMSF - </font><font size="2">http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php</font><font size="2">?</font></p><p><font size="2">CNES - French space agency&nbsp; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature" align="center"><em><font color="#0000ff">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</font></em> </div><div class="Discussion_UserSignature" align="center"><font color="#0000ff"><em>I really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function.</em></font> </div> </div>