Multilingual dictionary of abbreviations

Abbreviations related to the theme ‘Astronautics’

Space transport engineering, spaceflight engineering, astronautics, astronautical engineering, cosmonautics, rocketry; spacecraft, rockets and missiles.

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Meaning

Language

Themes and places

Geometric Dilution Of Precision

The abbreviation GDOP (Geometric Dilution Of Precision) includes the abbreviation DOP (Dilution Of Precision).

Ground Data Systems Manager

Ground Data Systems Officer

Groupement pour le Développement de la Télédétection Aérospatiale

Gimbal Electronics Assembly

Electronics

Groupe des Écoles Aéronautiques et spatiales

General Electric Aerospace Electronics Systems

Giotto Extended Mission

Global Emergency Missile Surveillance

Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

Group on Earth Observations (www.earthobservations.org)

Geostationary Earth Orbit

Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep-space Surveillance System

Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep-Space Surveillance

Electrical engineering

Geosynchronous Solar Electric Propulsion Stage

Electrical engineering

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (www.epa.gov/geoss/)

Earth sciences

Goddard Experiment Support System

The abbreviation GESS (Goddard Experiment Support System) includes the abbreviation SS (Support System).

United States

Ground Elapsed Time

The abbreviation GET (Ground Elapsed Time) is included in abbreviations such as GETI (Ground Elapsed Time of Ignition) and GETL (Ground Elapsed Time of Landing), and it includes the abbreviation ET (Elapsed Time).

Horology

Grupo Executivo de Trabalho e Estudos de Projetos Espaciais

Ground Elapsed Time of Ignition

The abbreviation GETI (Ground Elapsed Time of Ignition) includes abbreviations ET (Elapsed Time) and GET (Ground Elapsed Time).

Horology

Ground Elapsed Time of Landing

The abbreviation GETL (Ground Elapsed Time of Landing) includes abbreviations ET (Elapsed Time) and GET (Ground Elapsed Time).

Horology

Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

Ground Integration Requirements Document

The abbreviation GIRD (Ground Integration Requirements Document) includes the abbreviation RD (Requirements Document).

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

Ground-Launched Cruise Missile

The abbreviation GLCM (Ground-Launched Cruise Missile) includes the abbreviation CM (Cruise Missile).

Weapons

Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay

Telecommunications

Ground Launch Sequencer

Guided Missile

The abbreviation GM (Guided Missile) is included in abbreviations such as AARGM (Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile), ARGMA (Army Rocket and Guided Missile Agency), ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile), FOGM (Fiber-Optic Guided Missile), GMFCS (Guided Missile Fire Control System), GML (Guided Missile Launcher), GMLS (Guided Missile Launching System) and GMU (Guided Missile Unit).

Weapons

Gimbal Module Electronics

Electronics

Guided Missile Fire Control System

The abbreviation GMFCS (Guided Missile Fire Control System) includes abbreviations GM (Guided Missile) and FC (Fire Control).

Weapons

Government Mandatory Inspection Point

The abbreviation GMIP (Government Mandatory Inspection Point) includes the abbreviation MIP (Mandatory Inspection Point).

Guided Missile Launcher

The abbreviation GML (Guided Missile Launcher) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).

Weapons

Ground Mobile Launch Control Center

The abbreviation GMLCC (Ground Mobile Launch Control Center) includes abbreviations CC (Control Center) and LCC (Launch Control Center).

Management

Guided Missile Launching System

The abbreviation GMLS (Guided Missile Launching System) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).

Weapons

Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

Meteorology, climatology

Guided Missile Unit

The abbreviation GMU (Guided Missile Unit) includes the abbreviation GM (Guided Missile).

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

The abbreviation GN&C (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) is included in abbreviations such as GN&CS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Subsystem) and AGN&C (Autonomous Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Subsystem

The abbreviation GN&CS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Subsystem) includes the abbreviation GN&C (Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

The abbreviation GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) is included in abbreviations such as GNCFTS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Flight Test Station), GNCIS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Integration Simulator), GNCSIM (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Simulation), GNCTS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Test Station) and PGNCS (Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System).

Guidance and Navigation Computer

Computer hardware

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Flight Test Station

The abbreviation GNCFTS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Flight Test Station) includes abbreviations FT (Flight Test), FTS (Flight Test Station) and GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Integration Simulator

The abbreviation GNCIS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Integration Simulator) includes the abbreviation GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Quality management

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Simulation

The abbreviation GNCSIM (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Simulation) includes the abbreviation GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Quality management

Guidance, Navigation, and Control Test Station

The abbreviation GNCTS (Guidance, Navigation, and Control Test Station) includes the abbreviation GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control).

Ground Operations Aerospace Language

Grupo de Organização da Comissão Nacional de Atividades Espaciais

Astronomy

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite

Environmental science

Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellite

Environmental science

Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars

Meteorology, climatology

Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer

The Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer (GOMR) planned for the Polar Platform is conceived as two elements: a Nadir Sounder (GNS) for determining total ozone and a Limb Sounder (GLS) for determining vertical distributions of ozone, temperature and other trace gases at altitudes above the tropopause.

Gyro Pulse Count

Gimbal Position Display

Human-computer interaction

Gimbal Position Indicator

Green Propellant Infusion Mission

GOAL Processing Language

Programming languages

Gravitational Plant Physiology Facility

GOAL Test Procedure Release Notice

Global Positioning System

The abbreviation GPS (Global Positioning System) is included in abbreviations such as NDGPS (Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System) and GPSCP (Global Positioning System Computer Program).

Global Positioning System Computer Program

The abbreviation GPSCP (Global Positioning System Computer Program) includes abbreviations GPS (Global Positioning System) and CP (Computer Program).

GOAL Test Procedure Update Request

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/)

Glenn Research Center (www.grc.nasa.gov)

Gamma Ray Explorer

Astronomy

Gamma Ray Observatory

Observatories

Glide Return To Launch Site

The abbreviation GRTLS (Glide Return To Launch Site) includes abbreviations LS (Launch Site) and RTLS (Return To Launch Site).

Ground Station

The abbreviation GS (Ground Station) is included in abbreviations such as TGS (Telemetry Ground Station), MSBLSGS (Microwave Scan-Beam Landing System Ground Station), MGS (Mobile Ground Station), GSVOO (Ground Station Visibility of Orbiting Objects) and GSLS (Ground Station Link Survivability).

Ground System

The abbreviation GS (Ground System) is included in abbreviations such as GSIG (Ground Systems Integration Group), GSO (Ground Systems Operations), GSPO (Ground Systems Project Office), GST (Ground System Test), GSTP (Ground System Test Procedure), MGS (Mobile Ground System), NGS (NUDET Ground System), SOGS (Science Operations Ground System), SSFGSS (Space Shuttle Flight and Ground System Specification) and TGS (Telemetry Ground System).

Galileo Supervisory Authority (https://www.gsa.europa.eu)

GSA is equivalent to GSA (European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Supervisory Authority) in English.

European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Supervisory Authority (https://www.gsa.europa.eu)

GSA is equivalent to GSA (see above).

Geosynchronous Satellite

Ground Support Equipment

The abbreviation GSE (Ground Support Equipment) is included in abbreviations such as GSEL (Ground Support Equipment List), GSERD (Ground Support Equipment Recommendation Data), IGSE (In-Space Ground Support Equipment), IGSE (Instrument Ground Support Equipment), IMUGSE (IMU Ground Support Equipment), MGSE (Mechanical Ground Support Equipment), PGSE (Payload Ground Support Equipment), SSPGSE (Space Shuttle Program Ground Support Equipment), TGSE (Telemetry Ground Support Equipment) and EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment), and it includes the abbreviation SE (Support Equipment).

Ground Support Equipment List

The abbreviation GSEL (Ground Support Equipment List) includes abbreviations GSE (Ground Support Equipment) and SE (Support Equipment).

Ground Support Equipment Recommendation Data

The abbreviation GSERD (Ground Support Equipment Recommendation Data) includes abbreviations GSE (Ground Support Equipment) and SE (Support Equipment).

Gyro Scale Factor

Godddard Space Flight Center

The abbreviation GSFC (Godddard Space Flight Center) includes the abbreviation SF (Space Flight).

Ground Systems Integration Group

The abbreviation GSIG (Ground Systems Integration Group) includes the abbreviation GS (Ground System).

Organizational divisions

Ground Station Link Survivability

The abbreviation GSLS (Ground Station Link Survivability) includes the abbreviation GS (Ground Station).

Telecommunications

Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation

Ground Support Operations

Ground Systems Operations

The abbreviation GSO (Ground Systems Operations) includes the abbreviation GS (Ground System).

Ground Software Production Facility

Ground Systems Project Office

The abbreviation GSPO (Ground Systems Project Office) includes abbreviations PO (Project Office) and GS (Ground System).

Geosynchronous Space Station

The abbreviation GSS (Geosynchronous Space Station) includes the abbreviation SS (Space Station).

Ground Support System

The abbreviation GSS (Ground Support System) is included in abbreviations such as GSSI (Ground Support System Integration) and GSSI&C (Ground Support Systems Installation and Checkout), and it includes the abbreviation SS (Support System).

Ground Support System Integration

The abbreviation GSSI (Ground Support System Integration) includes abbreviations GSS (Ground Support System) and SS (Support System).

Ground Support Systems Installation and Checkout

The abbreviation GSSI&C (Ground Support Systems Installation and Checkout) includes abbreviations GSS (Ground Support System) and SS (Support System).

Quality management

Ground System Test

The abbreviation GST (Ground System Test) is included in the abbreviation GSTP (Ground System Test Procedure), and it includes the abbreviation GS (Ground System).

Quality management

Saudi Arabian Communications Satellite

Ground Space Flight Tracking and Data Network

Ground Spacecraft Tracking and Data Network

Ground System Test Procedure

The abbreviation GSTP (Ground System Test Procedure) includes abbreviations GST (Ground System Test), TP (Test Procedure) and GS (Ground System).

Quality management

Glove Stop Valve

Fluids handling

Ground Station Visibility of Orbiting Objects

The abbreviation GSVOO (Ground Station Visibility of Orbiting Objects) includes the abbreviation GS (Ground Station).

Telecommunications

Gyro Torque

Glycol Trim Console

Human-computer interaction

Grupo de Trabalho de Estudos e Projetos Espaciais

Government-Furnished Target Launch Vehicle

The abbreviation GTLV (Government-Furnished Target Launch Vehicle) includes abbreviations LV (Launch Vehicle) and TLV (Target Launch Vehicle).

Central administration

Ground Test Missile

The abbreviation GTM (Ground Test Missile) includes the abbreviation GT (Ground Test).

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit

Gimbal angle and Translational Velocity Indicator

Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate

Generic VHSIC Spacecraft Computer

Computer hardware

Galaxy Express

Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung

Grumman Aerospace Horizons

High-Altitude Abort

Safety

High-Altitude Attitude Determination System

High-Altitude Attitude Reference System

High-Altitude Burst

Hypersonic Arbitrary Body Program

Aeronautics

High-Accuracy Inertial Navigation System

The abbreviation HAINS (High-Accuracy Inertial Navigation System) includes the abbreviation INS (Inertial Navigation System).

Houston Aerospace Language

High-order programming Language for Spacelab usage

Highly Advanced Laboratory for Communications and Astronomy

High-Altitude Large Optics

High-order Assembly Language for Shuttle

Height Adjustment Maneuver

High-speed Anti-Radar Missile

The abbreviation HARM (High-speed Anti-Radar Missile) includes the abbreviation ARM (Anti-Radar Missile).

High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile

Weapons

High-Altitude Sensor

High-Altitude Surveillance Concept

High-Altitude Supersonic Target

Homing Ballistic Missile

The abbreviation HBM (Homing Ballistic Missile) includes the abbreviation BM (Ballistic Missile).

Ballistics

Horizontal Cargo Integration Test Equipment

The abbreviation HCITE (Horizontal Cargo Integration Test Equipment) includes abbreviations CITE (Cargo Integration Test Equipment) and TE (Test Equipment).

Helium Check Valve

Fluids handling

High Energy Astronomical Observatory

High Energy Astronomy Observatory

Astronomy

High-Energy Laser Computerized Unmanned Space Synthesis

Hitchhike Experiment Module

Helium Manual Valve

The abbreviation HEMV (Helium Manual Valve) includes the abbreviation MV (Manual Valve).

Fluids handling

High Earth Orbit

521

High-Energy Orbit

Astronomy

Hermes Robotic Arm

High Energy Transient Explorer

Astronomy

Helium Gauge Valve

Fluids handling

Horizontal Flight

Aeronautics

Hot Firing

Hydraulic Flight Control

The abbreviation HFC (Hydraulic Flight Control) includes the abbreviation FC (Flight Control).

Aeronautics

Hydraulic Flight Control Laboratory

The abbreviation HFCL (Hydraulic Flight Control Laboratory) includes the abbreviation FC (Flight Control).

Hydraulic Flight Control Test

The abbreviation HFCT (Hydraulic Flight Control Test) includes the abbreviation FC (Flight Control).

Helium Flow Control Valve

Fluids handling

Horizontal Flight Simulator

Aeronautics

Horizontal Flight Test

The abbreviation HFT (Horizontal Flight Test) is included in abbreviations such as HFTF (Horizontal Flight Test Facility) and HFTS (Horizontal Flight Test Simulator), and it includes the abbreviation FT (Flight Test).

Horizontal Flight Test Facility

The abbreviation HFTF (Horizontal Flight Test Facility) includes abbreviations TF (Test Facility), FT (Flight Test) and HFT (Horizontal Flight Test).

Horizontal Flight Test Simulator

The abbreviation HFTS (Horizontal Flight Test Simulator) includes abbreviations FT (Flight Test) and HFT (Horizontal Flight Test).

Hydrogen Gas Valve

Fluids handling

Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit

High-Altitude Defense Program

Helium Isolation Valve

Fluids handling

Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle

The abbreviation HLLV (Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle) includes the abbreviation LV (Launch Vehicle).

Hybrid Launch Vehicule

Hypergolic Maintenance Area

Hypergolic Maintenance and Checkout Facility

Helmet-Mounted Display

Human-computer interaction

Health Maintenance Facility

Hypergolic Maintenance Facility

Hard Mobile Launcher

The abbreviation HML (Hard Mobile Launcher) includes the abbreviation ML (Mobile Launcher).

Hardened Mobile Launcher

The abbreviation HML (Hardened Mobile Launcher) includes the abbreviation ML (Mobile Launcher).

Hydrazine Monopropellant

Hydrogen Manual Valve

The abbreviation HMV (Hydrogen Manual Valve) includes the abbreviation MV (Manual Valve).

Fluids handling

Huntsville Operations Support Center

Horizontal Takeoff and Landing

The abbreviation HOTOL (Horizontal Takeoff and Landing) includes the abbreviation TO (Takeoff).

Perigee Altitude

Aeronautics

High Payload Baseline Reference Mission

Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer

High-Pressure Fuel Turbopump

Fluids handling

High-Pressure Fuel Turbopump

Fluids handling

High-Pressure Oxidizer Turbopump

Fluids handling

High-Pressure Oxidizer Turbopump

Fluids handling

Horizontal Payloads Processing Facility

Hydrogen Pressure Relief Valve

Fluids handling

High-Pressure Valve

Fluids handling

Hemispherical Resonating Gyro

High Resolution Stereo Camera

Heat Shield

The abbreviation HS (Heat Shield) is included in abbreviations such as AHS (Aft Heat Shield), BHS (Base Heat Shield), CCHS (Crew Compartment Heat Shield), FHS (Forward Heat Shield), HSA (Heat Shield Abort), HSB (Heat Shield Boost) and HSE (Heat Shield Entry).

5362

Heat Shield Abort

The abbreviation HSA (Heat Shield Abort) includes the abbreviation HS (Heat Shield).

Heat Shield Boost

The abbreviation HSB (Heat Shield Boost) includes the abbreviation HS (Heat Shield).

5362

House Spacecraft

Heat Shield Entry

The abbreviation HSE (Heat Shield Entry) includes the abbreviation HS (Heat Shield).

5362

Hypergolic Servicing Facility

Hermetically Sealed Integrating Gyroscope

Heat-Source Reentry Vehicle

The abbreviation HSRV (Heat-Source Reentry Vehicle) includes the abbreviation RV (Reentry Vehicle).

Hardened Space Sensor Model

Hubble Space Telescope

Hypergolic System Test Facility

The abbreviation HSTF (Hypergolic System Test Facility) includes the abbreviation TF (Test Facility).

Horizontal Takeoff

The abbreviation HTO (Horizontal Takeoff) includes the abbreviation TO (Takeoff).

Aeronautics

Hydroxyl Terminated Propellant

Chemicals

Horizontal Tail Plane

Aeronautics

Hawaii Tracking Station

The abbreviation HTS (Hawaii Tracking Station) includes the abbreviation TS (Tracking Station).

Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.

Hypervelocity Missile

Ballistics

Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

The abbreviation HWT (Hypersonic Wind Tunnel) includes the abbreviation WT (Wind Tunnel).

Hybrid Programmable Attitude Control Electronics

Electronics

Hybrid Satellite

Hybrid Sensor Experimental Satellite

Ingenieria aeronáutica y astronáutica

International Aerospace Abstracts

International Astronautical Congress

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