Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ASDS|Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)| |DoD|US Department of Defense| |EELV|Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |GTO|Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |LOX|Liquid Oxygen| |MECO|Main Engine Cut-Off| | |MainEngineCutOff podcast| |NET|No Earlier Than| |NSSL|National Security Space Launch, formerly EELV| |RLV|Reusable Launch Vehicle| |RTLS|Return to Launch Site| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift| |SSTO|Single Stage to Orbit| | |Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit| |ULA|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)| |USSF|United States Space Force| |VTVL|Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation| |retropropulsion|Thrust in the opposite direction to current motion, reducing speed|

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