Astronautics
Space transport engineering, spaceflight engineering, astronautics, astronautical engineering, cosmonautics, rocketry, spacecraft, rockets and missiles.
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Meaning
Language
Themes and places
- ALT
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Approach and Landing Test
- ALTR
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Approach and Landing Test Requirement
- ALV
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Advanced Launch Vehicle
The abbreviation ALV (Advanced Launch Vehicle) includes the abbreviation LV (Launch Vehicle).
- ALVIB
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Algorithm Payload Vibration
- AM
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Airlock Module
- AMC
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Aft Motor Controller
- AMC
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Army Missile Command
- AMCA
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Aft Motor Controller Assembly
- AMCC
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ADL Master Control Console
- AMDS
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Advanced Missions Docking System
The abbreviation AMDS (Advanced Missions Docking System) includes the abbreviation DS (Docking System).
- AME
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Abort Maneuver Evaluator
- AMEC
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Aft Master Events Controller
- AMF
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Abort Motor Facility
- AMF
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Apogee Motor Firing
The abbreviation AMF (Apogee Motor Firing) is included in the abbreviation SFTF (Static Firing Test Facility).
- AMG
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Angle of the Middle Gimbal
- AMI
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Apogee Memory Image
- AMLS
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Advanced Manned Launch System
- AMM
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Anti-Missile Missile
- AMO
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Aerospace Medical Operations
- AMOOS
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Advanced Maneuvering Orbit-to-Orbit Shuttle
- AMR
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Atlantic Missile Range
- AMRAAM
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Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile
The abbreviation AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile) includes the abbreviation AAM (Air-to-Air Missile).
- AMRIU
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Advanced Missile Remote Interface Unit
- AMRV
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Astronaut Maneuvering Vehicle
- AMS
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Attached Manipulator System
- AMS
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Air Missile System
- AMSD
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Autonetics Marine Systems Division
- AMSR
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Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
- AMU
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Astronaut Maneuvering Unit
- AMU
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Attitude Match Update
- ANARS
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Autonomous Navigation and Attitude Reference System
- ANC
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Active Nutation Control
- ANS
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Astronomical Netherlands Satellite
- AOA
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Abort Once Around
- AOCS
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Attitude and Orbit Control System
- AOCS
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Attitude and Orbit Control Subsystem
- AOES
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Advanced Orbit Ephemeris System
- AOFEE
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Advanced Orbiter Flight Evaluation Experiment
- AOL
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Area Of Launch
- AOSP
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Advanced Onboard Signal Processor
The Advanced Onboard Signal Processor (AOSP) was a distributed signal processing computer meant for space applications. Its architecture was based on an arbitrary-topology network of identical processing elements specialized to perform signal processing and controlled by a distributed operating system (OS) written in a high-order language (HOL).
The abbreviation AOSP (Advanced Onboard Signal Processor) includes the abbreviation SP (Signal Processor).
- APA
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Abort Programmer Assembly
- APAE
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Attached Payload Accommodations Equipment
- APC
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Adaptive Payload Carrier
- APC
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Aft Power Controller
- APCA
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Aft Power Controller Assembly
- APD
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Area Passive Dosimeter
- API
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Aerospace Performance Improvement
- APLIS
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Automated Payload ICD System
- APM
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Columbus Attached Pressurized Module
- APP
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Astrophysics Payload
- APPF
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Automated Payload Processing Facility
- APPLE
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Advanced Propulsion Payload Effect
- APPS
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Auxiliary Payload Power System
- APS
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Aft Propulsion System
- APS
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Attitude Propulsion System
- APSAP
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Auxiliary Propulsion System Aft Pod
- APSS
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Atmospheric Pressure Supply Subsystem
- APT
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Astronaut Preference Test
- ARA
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Attitude Reference Assembly
- ARAP
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Astronaut Rescue Air Pack
- ARBl
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Aerospace Research in Bulgaria
- ARC
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Ames Research Center
- ARCOMSAT
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Arab League Communications Satellite
- ARCS
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Aft Reaction Control Subsystem
- ARD
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Abort Region Determinator
- ARFDS
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Automatic Reentry Flight Dynamics Simulator
- ARGMA
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Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency
The abbreviation ARGMA (Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).
- ARISTOTELES
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Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth’s Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
- ARM
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Anti-Radar Missile
The abbreviation ARM (Anti-Radar Missile) is included in the abbreviation HARM (High-speed Anti-Radar Missile).
- ARPESH
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Accurate and Reliable Prototype Earth Horizon Sensor Head
- ARS
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American Rocket Society
- ARS
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Attitude Reference System
- ARSDA
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Advanced Radiation Space Defense Application
- ARTS
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Advanced Remote Tracking Station
The abbreviation ARTS (Advanced Remote Tracking Station) includes abbreviations RTS (Remote Tracking Station) and TS (Tracking Station).
- ARU
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Attitude Reference Unit
- ASA
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Abort Sensor Assembly
- ASAL
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Agence Spatiale Algérienne
- ASAM
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Air-Surface Attack Missile
- ASAP
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ACE Shuttle Application Processing
- ASAP
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Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
- ASAR
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Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile
- ASAT
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Antisatellite
- ASAT
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Anti-Satellite System
- ASATS
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Antisatellite Simulation
- ASB
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Airlock Stowage Bag
- ASC
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Airlock Support Component
- ASC
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American Satellite Corporation
- ASCA
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Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics
- ASCADS
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Aft Station Command And Data System
- ASCE
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Airlock Signal Conditioning Electronics
- ASCO
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Arab Satellite Communications Organization
- ASCO
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Arab Space Communications Organization
- ASCP
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Attitude Set/Control Panel
The abbreviation ASCP (Attitude Set/Control Panel) includes the abbreviation CP (Control Panel).
- ASCP
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Attitude Set Control Panel
The abbreviation ASCP (Attitude Set Control Panel) includes the abbreviation CP (Control Panel).
- ASCS
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Attitude Stabilization and Control System
- ASE
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Advanced Space Engine
- ASE
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Aerospace Support Equipment
- ASEM
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Assembly of Station by EVA Methods
- ASGPD
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Attitude Set and Gimbal Position Display
- ASI
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Airspeed Indicator
- ASI
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Augmented Spark Igniter
- ASI
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Augmented Spark Indicator
- ASI
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Augmented System Ignition
- ASI
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Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (www.asi.it)
- ASLCM
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Advanced Sea-Launched Cruise Missile
The abbreviation ASLCM (Advanced Sea-Launched Cruise Missile) includes abbreviations SLCM (Sea-Launched Cruise Missile) and CM (Cruise Missile).
- ASM
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Air-to-Surface Missile
- ASM
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Anti-Ship Missile
- ASMD
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Anti-Ship Missile Defense
- ASMPA
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(Missile) Air-Sol Moyenne Portée Amélioré
- ASPOC
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Active Spacecraft Potential Control
- ASPSL
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ASPP Sortie Laboratory
- ASR
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Agenţia Spaţială Română (http://www2.rosa.ro/)
- ASRAAM
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Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile
The abbreviation ASRAAM (Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile) includes the abbreviation AAM (Air-to-Air Missile).
- ASRM
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Advanced Solid Rocket Motor
The abbreviation ASRM (Advanced Solid Rocket Motor) includes the abbreviation SRM (Solid Rocket Motor).
- ASRM
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Abort Solid Rocket Motor
The abbreviation ASRM (Abort Solid Rocket Motor) includes the abbreviation SRM (Solid Rocket Motor).
- ASRS
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Automated Shuttle Requirement System
- ASSD
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Autonetics Strategic Systems Division
- ASSESS
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Airborne Science Shuttle Experiments System Simulation
- ASSH
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Advanced Space Systems Hardening
- ASTD
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Advanced Space Technology Division
- ASTER
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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection
- ASTG
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Aerospace Test Group
- ASTP
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
- ASTRA
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Advanced Star Tracker
- ASTRA
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Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions
- ASTRO
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Ascent Trajectory Optimization
- ATA
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Abort Time Assembly
- ATA
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Aft Test Article
The abbreviation ATA (Aft Test Article) includes the abbreviation TA (Test Article).
- ATA
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Ammonia Tank Assembly
- ATAAM
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Advanced Tactical Air-to-Air Missile
The abbreviation ATAAM (Advanced Tactical Air-to-Air Missile) includes the abbreviation AAM (Air-to-Air Missile).
- ATACMS
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Army Tactical Missile System
- ATAL
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Alternate Transoceanic Abort Landing
The abbreviation ATAL (Alternate Transoceanic Abort Landing) includes the abbreviation TAL (Transoceanic Abort Landing).
- ATBM
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Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile
The abbreviation ATBM (Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile) includes the abbreviation BM (Ballistic Missile).
- ATC
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Ablative Thrust Control
- ATCA
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Attitude Translation Control Assembly
- ATDRS
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Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
The abbreviation ATDRS (Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) includes abbreviations TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) and DRS (Data Relay Satellite).
- ATE
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Aerospace Training Equipment
- ATG
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Aerospace Test Group
- ATGM
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Anti-Tank Guided Missile
The abbreviation ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).
- ATLAS
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Analysis of Thrust structure Loads And Stresses
- ATM
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Apollo Telescope Mount
- ATM
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Ascent Trajectory Model
- ATM
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Anti-Tactical Missile
- ATM
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Air Training Missile
- ATM
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Anti-Tank Missile
- ATO
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Abort To Orbit
- ATOLL
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Acceptance, Test Or Launch Language
- ATP
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Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing
The abbreviation ATP (Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing) is included in the abbreviation ATPSE (Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing System Emulator).
- ATPFC
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Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing and Fire Control
The abbreviation ATPFC (Acquisition, Tracking, Pointing and Fire Control) includes the abbreviation FC (Fire Control).
- ATPSE
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Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing System Emulator
The abbreviation ATPSE (Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing System Emulator) includes the abbreviation ATP (Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing).
- ATS
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Atlantic Tracking Station
The abbreviation ATS (Atlantic Tracking Station) includes the abbreviation TS (Tracking Station).
- ATS
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Advanced Technology Satellite
- ATS
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Applications Technology Satellite
- ATS
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Atlantic Tracking Ship
- ATSC
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AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation
- ATVC
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Ascent Thrust Vector Control
The abbreviation ATVC (Ascent Thrust Vector Control) includes abbreviations TV (Thrust Vector) and TVC (Thrust Vector Control).
- ATVC
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Automatic Thrust Vector Control
The abbreviation ATVC (Automatic Thrust Vector Control) includes abbreviations TV (Thrust Vector) and TVC (Thrust Vector Control).
- ATVCD
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Ascent Thrust Vector Control Driver
The abbreviation ATVCD (Ascent Thrust Vector Control Driver) includes abbreviations TV (Thrust Vector) and TVC (Thrust Vector Control).
- ATVCS
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Automatic Thrust Vector Control System
The abbreviation ATVCS (Automatic Thrust Vector Control System) includes abbreviations TV (Thrust Vector) and TVC (Thrust Vector Control).
- AUCV
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Advanced Unmanned Cargo Vehicle
- AUP
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Ames Unitary Plan
- AVCS
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Attitude and Velocity Control System
- AVE
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Aerospace Vehicle Equipment
- AVHRR
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Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
- AVISO
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Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellites Oceanographic data (www.aviso.oceanobs.com)
- AVNIR
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Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer
- AVRCS
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Attitude, Velocity, Reaction Control System
- AVVI
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Altitude/Vertical Velocity Indicator
- AW
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Airlock Wall
- AW&ST
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Aviation Week and Space Technology
= AvWST | Aviation Week & Space Technology | In English
- AXAF
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Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
- AcAAS
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Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica
- AcAau
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Acta Astronautica
- AdEOA
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Advances in Earth Oriented Applications and Space Technology
- AeAm
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Aerospace America
- AeCM
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Aerospace Composites Materials
- AeCh
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Aerospace China
- AeDy
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Aerospace Dynamics
- AeEn
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Aerospace Engineering
- AeMat
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Aerospace Materials
- AeMed
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Aerospace Medicine
- AeSc
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Collection of Papers on Aerospace Science
- AerRv
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Revue Aérospatiale
- AirCo
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Air et Cosmos (www.air-cosmos.com)
- AirSp
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Air and Space
- AoA
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Angle of Arrival
- Ap&SS
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- ApSSS
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Astrophysics and Space Science Supplement
- ArtSa
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Artificial Satellites
- AsAc
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Astronautica Acta
- AsAer
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Astronautics Aeronautics
- Asnau
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Astronautik
- AvKos
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Aviatsiia i Kosmonavtika
= AvKos | Авиация и космонавтика | In Russian
- AvKos
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Авиация и космонавтика
= AvKos (see above)
- AvTek
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Aviatsionnaia Tekhnika
- AvWST
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Aviation Week & Space Technology
= AW&ST, AvWST (see above)
- BAC
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Boeing Aerospace Company
- BAC
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Booster Assembly Contractor
The abbreviation BAC (Booster Assembly Contractor) is included in abbreviations such as KBAC (Kennedy Booster Assembly Contractor) and MBAC (Marshall Booster Assembly Contractor).
- BAE
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British Aerospace
- BASD
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Ball Aerospace Systems Division