Glossary for
Adventures of a Star Warrior
Cold War Rocket Science on the Space
Frontier
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A&M - Agricultural and
Mechanical (as in Texas A&M)
ACS - Attitude Control System
AFB - Air Force Base
AFCRL - Air Force Cambridge
Research Laboratories
AFGL - Air Force Geophysics
Laboratory
AIM - Auroral Ionospheric
Mapper
AIRS - Auroral and Ionospheric
Remote Sensor
APL - Applied Physics
Laboratory
AURA - Atmospheric Ultraviolet
Radiation Array
AURIC - Atmospheric Ultraviolet
Radiance Integrated Code
BMDO - Ballistic Missile
Defense Organization
BOQ - Bachelor Officer
Quarters
Brilliant Pebbles - an SDI
proposal
CCD - Charge-coupled device
CIRRIS - Cryogenic Infrared
Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle
DDR&E - Director for
Defense Research and Engineering
DEW - Directed Energy Weapon
Digicon - A light detector in which accelerated photoelectrons are detected by solid state devices
DMSP - Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program
DNA - Defense Nuclear Agency
DOD - Department of Defense
DUVS - Dual Ultraviolet Sensors
EWG - Experimenters Working
Group (Starlab)
FIDO - Flight Dynamics Officer
GCA - Geophysics Corporation of
America
HILAT - High Latitude
ICBM - Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile
ICD - Interface Control
Document
IDA - Institute for Defense
Analyses
IG - Inspector General
IOC - Initial Operational
Capability
IR - Infrared
KEW - Kinetic Energy Weapon
MAD - Mutually Assured
Destruction
Mentally Retarded - although
there is a movement to stop using this
term (2015), this has been a commonly used term and means no disrespect
MIRV - Multiple
Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle
MIT - Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
MSMP - Multi-Spectral
Measurements Program
NBS - National Bureau of
Standards (now NIST)
NIST - National Institute of
Standards and Technology (formerly NBS)
NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
OGO - Orbiting Geophysical
Observatory
Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy
PI - Principle Investigator
Plume - the flames and exhaust
gases emanating from a rocket or missile
Polar BEAR - Polar Beacon
Experiment and Auroral Research
PSAG - Phenomenology Steering
and Advisory Group
PWS - Prader Willi Syndrome
RIF - Reduction in Force
ROC - Range Operations Center
SALT - Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
SCF - Satellite Control
Facility
SCOUT - Solid Controlled
Orbital Utility Test system
SDI - Strategic Defense
Initiative ("Star Wars")
SDIO - Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization
SERB - Space Experiment Review
Board
Skunk Works - a division of
Lockheed noted for much success using
unconventional methods
SLC - Space Launch Complex
Smart Rocks - an SDI proposal
SPIE - Optical Engineering
Society (originally Society of Photographic
Instrumentation Engineers)
STP - Space Test Program
STS - Space Transportation
System
TEM - Target Engine Measurement
TM - Telemetry Monitor
TPE - Tracking and Pointing
Experiment
UV - Ultraviolet
VAB - Vehicle Assembly Building
VAFB - Vandenberg Air Force
Base
VUV - Vacuum Ultraviolet
WSMR - White Sands Missile
Range
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Last Updated: February 17, 2022
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