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Vehicle engineering
Vehicle engineering, transport vehicle engineering.
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- PPR
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Payload Preparation Room
- PPS
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Partial-Pressure Suit
- PPS
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Payload Pointing System
- PPS
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Primary Propulsion System
- PPT
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Prelaunch Package Test
- PPTE
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Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering
- PQGS
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Propellant Quantity Gauging System
- PRB
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Parachute Refurbishment Building
- PRD
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Payload Requirements Document
The abbreviation PRD (Payload Requirements Document) includes the abbreviation RD (Requirements Document).
- PRD
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Personal Radiation Dosimeter
- PREDIT
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Programme National de Recherche et d'Innovation dans les Transports Terrestres
- PRIS
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Payload Remote Integration System
- PRK
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Prix de Revient Kilométrique
The abbreviation PRK (Prix de Revient Kilométrique) includes the abbreviation PR (Prix de Revient).
- PRL
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Payload Retention Latch
- PRLA
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Payload Retention Latch Actuator
- PRLA
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Payload Retention Latch Assembly
- PRM
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Payload Retention Mechanism
- PRM
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Posigrade Rocket Motor
- PRN
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Pseudorandom Noise
- PROTEIN
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euroPean Reusable and cOsThEavy lift transport InvestigatioN
- PRR
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Preflight Readiness Review
The abbreviation PRR (Preflight Readiness Review) includes the abbreviation RR (Readiness Review).
- PRRB
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Payload Requirements Review Board
The abbreviation PRRB (Payload Requirements Review Board) includes abbreviations RR (Requirements Review) and RB (Review Board).
- PRS
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Payload Retention System
- PRTLS
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Powered Return To Launch Site
The abbreviation PRTLS (Powered Return To Launch Site) includes abbreviations LS (Launch Site) and RTLS (Return To Launch Site).
- PS
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Parachute System
- PS
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Payload Specialist
- PS
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Payload Station
- PS
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Payload Support
- PSA
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Payload Service Area
- PSA
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Payload Support Avionics
- PSBLS
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Permanent Space-Based Logistics System
- PSC
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Payload Support Contractor
The abbreviation PSC (Payload Support Contractor) includes the abbreviation SC (Support Contractor).
- PSC
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Planetary Spacecraft
- PSCL
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Propellant Systems Cleaning Laboratory
- PSDE
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Payload and Spacecraft Development and Experimentation
- PSDF
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Propulsion System Development Facility
- PSDP
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Payload Station Distribution Panel
- PSDP
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Payload System Distribution Panel
- PSE
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Payload Service Equipment
- PSE
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Payload Support Engineer
- PSE
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Payload Support Equipment
- PSF
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Propellant Servicing Facility
- PSIG
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Propulsion Systems Integration Group
- PSM
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Propellant Storage Module
- PSO
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Polskie Składy Oponiarskie
- PSP
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Payload Signal Processor
The abbreviation PSP (Payload Signal Processor) includes the abbreviation SP (Signal Processor).
- PSP
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Payload Specialist Panel
- PSP
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Payload Support Plan
- PSP
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Planetary Scan Platform
- PSP
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Planetary Scan Probe
- PSR
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Payload Safety Review
The abbreviation PSR (Payload Safety Review) includes the abbreviation SR (Safety Review).
- PSS
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Propulsion Support System
The abbreviation PSS (Propulsion Support System) includes the abbreviation SS (Support System).
- PSS
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Payload Specialist Station
- PSS
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Payload Status System
- PSS
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Payload Support System
The abbreviation PSS (Payload Support System) includes the abbreviation SS (Support System).
- PSS
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Propellant Supply Subsystem
- PSS
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Propulsion Subsystem
- PSSP
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Payload Specialist Station Panel
- PSTL
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Pressure Model Static and Transient Launch Configuration
- PSV
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Planetary Space Vehicle
- PSV
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Probability of Vehicle Success
- PSW
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Paris Space Week
- PT
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Propulsion Test
- PTA
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Propulsion Test Article
The abbreviation PTA (Propulsion Test Article) includes the abbreviation TA (Test Article).
- PTB
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Payload Timing Buffer
- PTCC
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Propulsion Test Control Center
The abbreviation PTCC (Propulsion Test Control Center) includes abbreviations CC (Control Center) and TCC (Test Control Center).
- PTCS
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Propellant Tanking Computer System
- PTS
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Payload Test Set
- PTS
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Payload Transportation System
- PTSF
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Payload Trunnion Support Fixture
- PTV
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Pathfinder Test Vehicle
- PU
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Propellant Unit
- PU
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Propellant Utilization
- PUCS
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Propellant Utilization Control System
- PUGS
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Propellant Utilization and Gauging System
- PUV
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Propellant Utilization Valve
- PVA
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Preburner Valve Actuator
- PVA
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Propellant Valve Actuator
- PVDS
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Propellant Vent and Drain System
- PVED
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Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering Division
- PVO
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Pioneer Venus Orbiter
- PVP
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Petit Véhicule Protégé
- PVT
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Preflight Verification Test
The abbreviation PVT (Preflight Verification Test) includes the abbreviation VT (Verification Test).
- PVT
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Pyrotechnic Verification Test
The abbreviation PVT (Pyrotechnic Verification Test) includes the abbreviation VT (Verification Test).
- PWA
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Pratt and Whitney Aircraft
- PWT
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Propulsion Wind Tunnel
The abbreviation PWT (Propulsion Wind Tunnel) includes the abbreviation WT (Wind Tunnel).
- PZMKiMK
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Polski Zwiazek Modelarzy Kolejowych i Milosników Kolei
- PhASp
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Physics and Astrophysics from Spacelab
- PrAA
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Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics
- PrAeS
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Progress in Aerospace Sciences
- PrEx
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Propellants and Explosives
- PrExP
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Propellants and Explosives Pyrotechnics
- QM
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Qualification Motor
- QMS
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Qualification Model Spacecraft
- QRS
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Quick Reaction Sortie
- QRSL
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Quick-Reaction Space Laboratory
- QTV
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Qualification Test Vehicle
The abbreviation QTV (Qualification Test Vehicle) includes the abbreviation QT (Qualification Test).
- R&R
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Rendezvous and Recovery
- RA
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Radar Altimeter
The abbreviation RA (Radar Altimeter) is included in abbreviations such as RADVS (Radar Altimeter and Doppler Velocity Sensor) and RAI (Radar Altimeter Indicator).
- RA
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Right Aft
- RADO
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Radiation Dosimetry
- RADO-HTR
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Radiation Dosimetry - High Temperature Ratio
- RADVS
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Radar Altimeter and Doppler Velocity Sensor
The abbreviation RADVS (Radar Altimeter and Doppler Velocity Sensor) includes the abbreviation RA (Radar Altimeter).
- RAE
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Royal Aerospace Establishment
- RAI
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Radar Altimeter Indicator
The abbreviation RAI (Radar Altimeter Indicator) includes the abbreviation RA (Radar Altimeter).
- RAI
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Roll Attitude Indicator
- RAI
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Rijwiel en Automobiel Industrie
- RALPH
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Reduction and Acquisition of Lunar Pulse Heights
- RALT
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Radar Altimeter
The abbreviation RALT (Radar Altimeter) is included in abbreviations such as CRALT (CNES Radar Altimeter) and NRALT (NASA Radar Altimeter).
- RAP
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Reserve Auxiliary Payload
- RAPACE
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Recherches Aérodynamiques Pour Avion de Combat Évolué
- RAPCON
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Radar Approach and Control
- RATO
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Rocket-Assisted Takeoff
The abbreviation RATO (Rocket-Assisted Takeoff) includes the abbreviation TO (Takeoff).
- RAVE
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Rotax Adjustable Variable Exhaust
- RAéS
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Réseau Recherche Aéronautique sur le Supersonique
- RCC
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Rough Combustion Cutoff
- RCCA
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Rough Combustion Cutoff Assembly
- RCCB
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Rockwell Configuration Control Board
The abbreviation RCCB (Rockwell Configuration Control Board) includes abbreviations CB (Control Board) and CCB (Configuration Control Board).
- RCN
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Rockwell Communication Network
- RCS
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Reentry Control System
- RDM
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Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij
- RDS
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Rocketdyne Digital Simulator
- RDW
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Rijks Dienst voor het Wegverkeer (www.rdw.nl)
- REA
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Rocket Engine Assembly
- REAM
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Rocket Engine Assembly Module
- REBECCA
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REduction du Bruit motEur avion par des ConCepts technologiques Avancés
- RECIFE
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REcherche sur la Capacité des Infrastructures FErroviaires
- REDAC
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Rockwell Electronic Design Analysis Code
- REDB
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Rockwell Engineering Data Base
The abbreviation REDB (Rockwell Engineering Data Base) includes the abbreviation DB (Data Base).
- REM
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Rocket Engine Module
- RER
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Réseau Express Régional
- RESSAC
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Recherche Et Sauvetage par Système Autonome Coopérant
- RFA
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Rocket Factory Augsburg
- RFHA
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Reusable Flight Hardware Authorization
- RFI
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Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
- RFVL
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Rotonde Ferroviaire de la Vallée du Loir
- RGA
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Rate Gyro Assembly
- RGP
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Rate Gyro Package
- RHEB
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Right-Hand Equipment Bay
The abbreviation RHEB (Right-Hand Equipment Bay) includes the abbreviation EB (Equipment Bay).
- RHFEB
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Right-Hand Forward Equipment Bay
The abbreviation RHFEB (Right-Hand Forward Equipment Bay) includes the abbreviation EB (Equipment Bay).
- RHS
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Rocketdyne Hybrid Simulator
- RIADB
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Rockwell Integrity Assurance Data Base
The abbreviation RIADB (Rockwell Integrity Assurance Data Base) includes the abbreviation DB (Data Base).
- RIAPS
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Remote Infrared Atmospheric Profiling System
- RICA
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Rockwell Interdivisional Contract Agreement
- RICE
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Remote Inertial and Control Equipment
- RIDS
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Rockwell Integrated Defense Simulator
- RIG
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Remote Imaging Group (www.rig.org.uk)
- RIGA
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Rate-Integrating Gyro Assembly
- RIMSS
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Rockwell International Modular Satellite System
- RIN
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Royal Institute of Navigation
- RISC
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Rockwell Integration Support Contract
- RISEC
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Rockwell International Shuttle Equipment Cradle
- RJ/EC
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Reaction Jet/Engine Control
- RJC
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Reaction Jet Control
- RJD
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Reaction Jet Device
- RJD
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Reaction Jet Driver
- RJDA
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Reaction Jet Driver Aft
- RJDF
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Reaction Jet Driver Forward
- RJOD
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Reaction Jet/OMS Driver
- RKA
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Rossiskoye Kosmicheskoye Agentsvo
- RLG
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Ring Laser Gyro
- RM
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Remote Manipulator
- RM
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Rendezvous Maneuver
- RMA
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Remote Manipulator Arm
- RMS
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Remote Manipulator System
- RMS
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Remote Maneuvering System
- RMU
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Remote Maneuvering Unit
- RMetA
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Rivista di Meteorologia Aeronautica
- RNS
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Reusable Nuclear Stage
- ROCES
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Ranger Orbiter Crew Escape System
The abbreviation ROCES (Ranger Orbiter Crew Escape System) includes abbreviations CES (Crew Escape System) and ES (Escape System).
- ROEU
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Remotely Operated Electrical Umbilical
- RORSAT
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Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite
- ROSA
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Romanian Space Agency
- ROSAT
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ROentgen SATellite
- ROSES
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Rockwell Operational Software Engineering System
- ROSS
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Remote Orbital Servicing System
- ROST
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Rockwell Operational System for Trades
- ROTV
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Returnable Orbital Transfer Vehicle
- RP
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Rocket Propellant
- RPL
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Rocket Propulsion Laboratory
- RPM
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Retro Propulsion Module
The abbreviation RPM (Retro Propulsion Module) includes the abbreviation PM (Propulsion Module).
- RPOC
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Remote Payload Operations Center
- RPV
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Remotely Piloted Vehicle
- RR
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Rendezvous Radar
The abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar) is included in abbreviations such as RRDA (Rendezvous Radar Deployment Actuator), RREA (Rendezvous Radar Electronics Assembly), RREU (Rendezvous Radar Electronics Unit), RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transducer), RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transfer) and RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transponder).
- RRDA
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Rendezvous Radar Deployment Actuator
The abbreviation RRDA (Rendezvous Radar Deployment Actuator) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RREA
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Rendezvous Radar Electronics Assembly
The abbreviation RREA (Rendezvous Radar Electronics Assembly) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RREU
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Rendezvous Radar Electronics Unit
The abbreviation RREU (Rendezvous Radar Electronics Unit) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RRS
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Retrorocket System
- RRT
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Rendezvous Radar Transducer
The abbreviation RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transducer) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RRT
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Rendezvous Radar Transfer
The abbreviation RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transfer) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RRT
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Rendezvous Radar Transponder
The abbreviation RRT (Rendezvous Radar Transponder) includes the abbreviation RR (Rendezvous Radar).
- RSDB
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Rockwell Supplier Data Base
The abbreviation RSDB (Rockwell Supplier Data Base) includes the abbreviation DB (Data Base).
- RSEAM
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Rockwell System Engineering Analysis Model
- RSLS
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Redundant Set Launch Sequence
The abbreviation RSLS (Redundant Set Launch Sequence) includes the abbreviation LS (Launch Sequence).
- RSO
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Resident Space Object
- RSOC
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Rockwell Space Operations Company
- RSRA
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Rotor System Research Aircraft
- RSRB
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Redesigned Solid Rocket Booster
The abbreviation RSRB (Redesigned Solid Rocket Booster) includes the abbreviation SRB (Solid Rocket Booster).
- RSRM
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Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor
The abbreviation RSRM (Redesigned Solid Rocket Motor) includes the abbreviation SRM (Solid Rocket Motor).
- RSS
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Reactant Supply System