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Space Handbook
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ABM antiballistic missile
ADCOM Aerospace Defense Command
ADTV Agena docking target vehicle
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AFB Air Force base
AFEWC Air Force Electronic Warfare Center
AFGWC Air Force Global Weather Central
AFIC Air Force Intelligence Command
AFS Air Force station
AFSATCOM Air Force Satellite Communications System
AFSCN Air Force Satellite Control Network
AFSPACECOM Air Force Space Command
AIS American Interplanetary Society
AMOS Air Force Maui Optical Station
ANMM AFSPACECOM National Mission Model
AO area of operations
ARDC Air Research and Development Command
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARS American Rocket Society
ARTS automated remote tracking station
ASAT antisatellite
ASSC Alternate Space Surveillance Center
ATBM antitactical ballistic missile
AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System
BDA battle damage assessment
BE Brilliant Eyes
BM battle management
BMD ballistic missile defense
BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System
BoMi bomber missile
BP Brilliant Pebbles
C3 command, control, and communications
CACS command and control squadron
CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CCC communications control complex
CCS command and control system
CENTCOM Central Command
CGS CONUS ground station
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Combat Intelligence Center
CMAFB Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base
CONUS continental United States
CROSS Combined RF/Optical Surveillance System
CS Constant Source
CSP contact support plan
CSTC Consolidated Space Test Center
CTS Colorado Tracking Station
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DDC Data Distribution Center
DE directed energy
DEW directed energy weapons
DLT data link terminal
DMA Defense Mapping Agency
DMCO Delta mission checkout
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD Department of Defense
DSCS Defense Satellite Communications System
DSIS Defense Communications System/Satellite Control Facility
Interface System
DSMM DOD Spacelift Mission Model
DSP Defense Support Program
DSTS deep-space tracking system
E2I endo-exoatmospheric interceptors
EDC Earth Resources Observation System Data Center
EGS European ground station
EHF extremely high frequency
ER Eastern Range
EROS Earth Resources Observation System
EVA extra-vehicular activity
EW electronic warfare
FEWS Follow-on Early Warning System
FLTSATCOM Fleet Satellite Communications System
FNOC Navy Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center
FOBS fractional orbit bombardment system
FSOC Fairchild Satellite Operations Center
GAO General Accounting Office
GBI ground-based interceptors
GBRT ground-based radar trackers
GC ground controller
GEM graphite epoxy motors
GEODSS ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance
GHz gigahertz
GPALS global protection against limited strikes
GPS Global Positioning System
GSTS ground-based surveillance and tracking system
GT Gemini Titan
GTO geostationary transfer orbit
HEDI high-endoatmospheric defense interceptor
HPF horizontal processing facility
HPTF high pressure test facility
IA interim agreement
ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile
IDSCS Initial Defense Satellite Communications System
IGY International Geophysical Year
IOC initial operational capability
IR infrared
IRBM intermediate range ballistic missile
IRO interrange operations
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
J-STARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System
KE kinetic energy
KMR Kwajalein Missile Range
KSC Kennedy Space Center
LASS low-altitude surveillance system
LCO lead communications operator
LEASAT Leased Satellite Communications System
LSO Launch Services Office
LWIR long wavelength infrared
MA Mercury Atlas
MCS master control station
MCT mission control team
MECO main engine cutoff
MHV miniature homing vehicle
MILSATCOM military satellite communications
Milstar military, strategic, and tactical relay satellite
MIRV multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle
MLV medium launch vehicle
MOL Manned Orbital Laboratory
MOTIF Maui Optical Tracking and Identification Facility
MPF multi-purpose facility
MPSOC Multi-Purpose Satellite Operations Center
MR Mercury Redstone
MSI multispectral imagery
MSR missile site radar
MSS multispectral scanner
MWS missile warning squadron
NACA National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASP national aerospace plane
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NAVSPASUR Naval Space Surveillance
NAVSTAR Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging
NCA National Command Authorities
NCS network control system
NFL new foreign launch
NICSCOA NATO Integrated Communications System Operating Agency
NLS national launch system
NMCC National Military Command Center
NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command
NPF Navstar Processing Facility
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NRT near real time
NSC National Security Council
NSD National Security Directive
NSDD National Security Decision Directive
NSDM National Security Decision Memorandum
NSpC National Space Council
NSSF Navstar Satellite Storage Facility
NSPD national space policy directives
NUDET nuclear detonation
OC operations center
OGS overseas ground station
OIS orbit insertion system
OLS operational linescan system
OPS operations
OSMC Operational Software Maintenance Complex
P&A plans and analysis
PAR perimeter acquisition radar
PARCS Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System
PASS Passive Surveillance System
PBV post-boost vehicle
PD presidential directive
PMALS prototype miniature air launched system
PSF payload servicing facility
RADINT radar intelligence
RC resource controller
RCC resource control complex
RCS radar cross section
reaction control system
RC/TA remote communications/telemetry areas
R&D research and development
RF radio frequency
RS resource scheduling
RTS remote tracking station
RV reentry vehicle
SA selective availability
SAC Strategic Air Command
SAINT Air Force satellite interceptor
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM surface-to-air missile
SATCOM satellite communications
SBWAS space-based wide area surveillance
SCOUT Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test
SCS satellite control squadron
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
SDTL Software Development Test Laboratories
SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
SLAG Space Launch Advisory Group
SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile
SOC satellite operations center
SOG satellite operations group
SOI space object identification
SPADOC Space Defense Operations Center
SRB solid rocket booster
SRM solid rocket motor
SRMU solid rocket motor upgrade
SSC Space Surveillance Center
SSN space surveillance network
SSTO single stage to orbit
SSTS space-based surveillance and tracking system
STG Space Task Group
STS space transportation system
SV space vehicles
TACELINT tactical electronic intelligence
tacsat tactical satellite
TAF tactical air force
TBM tactical ballistic missile
TENCAP Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Program
TEOB tactical elint order of battle
TERS Tactical Event Reporting System
TIP tracking impact prediction
TM thematic mapper
T/R transmit/receive
TRAP tactical and related applications
TRW Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge
TT&C telemetry, tracking, and commanding
TW/AA tactical warning/attack assessment
UFO ultra high frequency follow-on
UHF ultra high frequency
UN United Nations
USCENTCOM United States Central Command
USCINCSPACE United States commander in chief Space Command
USSPACECOM United States Space Command
VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base
VTS Vandenberg Tracking Station
WCP wing command post
WR Western Range
WSMR White Sands Missile Test Range
[End Space Handbook, Volume I]