| ACS
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Attitude and articulation control system (on a spacecraft)
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| ARISE
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Advanced Radio Interferometry between Space and Earth (NASA mission)
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| ASO
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Astronomical Search for Origins (NASA Science Mission Directorate theme)
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| BOL
|
Beginning of life (of solar array)
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| CC
|
Compensation chamber
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| COTS
|
Commercial off-the-shelf
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| DRAM
|
Dynamic random access memory
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| EDAC
|
Electromechanical digital adapter circuit
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| EEPROM
|
Electrically erasable programmable read only memory
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| FAIR
|
Filled Aperture InfraRed Telescope
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| FPGA
|
Field programmable logic array
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| GaAs
|
Gallium Arsenide (solar cells)
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| GCR
|
Galactic cosmic ray
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| LED
|
Light-emitting diode
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| LF
|
Life Finder (NASA telescope mission)
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| LHP
|
Loop heat pipe
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| Mb
|
Megabyte
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| MIPS
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Millions of instructions per second
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| MMS
|
Magnetometer Multi-Scale (NASA mission)
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| MOPS
|
Millions of operations per second
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| NASA
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National Aeronautics and space Administration
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| NGU
|
Next Generation Ultraflex (Ultra Lightweight Solar Array)
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| NMP
|
New Millennium Program
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| RHPPC
|
Radiation hardened power PC
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| SEC
|
Sun-Earth Connection (NASA Science Mission Directorate theme)
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| SEE
|
Single event effect
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| SEL
|
Single event latchup
|
| SEU
|
Single event upset
|
| SEU
|
Structure and Evolution of the Universe (NASA Science Mission Directorate theme)
|
| SPI
|
Solar Polar Imager (NASA mission)
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| SRTM
|
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
|
| ST8
|
Space Technology 8
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| TEC
|
Thermal electric cooler
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| TID
|
Total ionizing dose (effects)
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| TPF
|
Terrestrial Planet Finder (NASA mission)
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| TRL
|
Technical readiness level
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| V
|
Volt(s)
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| VEC
|
Variable emittance coating
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| W
|
Watt(s)
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