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Decronym t1_j9maxib wrote
Reply to what's the future of space travel within the next 27 years in 2050 to 2100 by LatterCardiologist47
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |AR|Area Ratio (between rocket engine nozzle and bell)| | |Aerojet Rocketdyne| | |Augmented Reality real-time processing| | |Anti-Reflective optical coating| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |JWST|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
^(4 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 7 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j98tbns wrote
Reply to The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |HST|Hubble Space Telescope| |JWST|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
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Decronym t1_j97chre wrote
Reply to This image of Mars shows the north polar ice cap, the border between highlands and lowlands, former river valleys, plains covered by dark sands and the large Hellas Planitia impact basin in the south. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin by MistWeaver80
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |DLR|Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), Cologne| |ESA|European Space Agency| |MER|Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit/Opportunity)| | |Mission Evaluation Room in back of Mission Control|
^(1 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 3 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j8znvmk wrote
Reply to Where does space really begin? Chinese spy balloon highlights legal fuzziness of ‘near space’ by HarpuasGhost
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |FAA|Federal Aviation Administration| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |ICBM|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |MEO|Medium Earth Orbit (2000-35780km)| |SSTO|Single Stage to Orbit| | |Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit| |USAF|United States Air Force|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |apogee|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
^(8 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j8qlzpl wrote
Reply to The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - the next major step in astronomy that will help unlock the secrets of the universe's expansion and dark energy. by upyoars
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |JWST|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope| |NRHO|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit| |NRO|(US) National Reconnaissance Office| | |Near-Rectilinear Orbit, see NRHO|
^(2 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 15 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j8on4c1 wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |CNC|Computerized Numerical Control, for precise machining or measuring| |DMLS|Selective Laser Melting additive manufacture, also Direct Metal Laser Sintering| |QA|Quality Assurance/Assessment|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 8 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j8mktgu wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |SN|(Raptor/Starship) Serial Number|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
^(4 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 11 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j8b6pr2 wrote
Reply to Stereoscopic motion parallax of the Moon passing between L1 and the Earth by EmergeHolographic
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|-------|---------|---|
|L1|Lagrange Point 1 of a two-body system, between the bodies|
|NOAA|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for US generation monitoring of the climate|
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DSCOVR | 2015-02-11 | F9-015 v1.1, Deep Space Climate Observatory to L1; soft ocean landing |
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Decronym t1_j836ti8 wrote
Reply to SpaceX on Twitter: Super Heavy Booster 7 completed a full duration static fire test of 31 Raptor engines, producing 7.9 million lbf of thrust (~3,600 metric tons) – less than half of the booster’s capability by allforspace
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |BFR|Big Falcon Rocket (2018 rebiggened edition)| | |Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice| |ITS|Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT)| | |Integrated Truss Structure| |MCT|Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 36 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j7zqi47 wrote
Reply to Blue Origin awarded NASA launch contract for Mars mission (Studying magnetic field) by kuroimakina
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |BO|Blue Origin (Bezos Rocketry)| |C3|Characteristic Energy above that required for escape| |EVA|Extra-Vehicular Activity| |FCC|Federal Communications Commission| | |(Iron/steel) Face-Centered Cubic crystalline structure| |GTO|Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift| |SOP|Standard Operating Procedure| |ULA|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)| |USAF|United States Air Force|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
^(11 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 15 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j7tjpdj wrote
Reply to SpaceX president/COO Gwynne Shotwell says they're attempting Starship's 33-engine static fire test tomorrow, Feb 9. by spsheridan
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |BE-4|Blue Engine 4 methalox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2018), 2400kN| |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules| | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)| |FAA|Federal Aviation Administration| |NSF|NasaSpaceFlight forum| | |National Science Foundation| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift| |ULA|United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starliner|Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation| |methalox|Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer|
^(7 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 16 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j7ocpag wrote
Reply to The James Webb Space Telescope just found an asteroid by total accident, its smallest object yet by pecika
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |C3|Characteristic Energy above that required for escape| |F1|Rocketdyne-developed rocket engine used for Saturn V| | |SpaceX Falcon 1 (obsolete medium-lift vehicle)| |JWST|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 10 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j7hivg8 wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |ICBM|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile| |Isp|Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)| | |Internet Service Provider| |JPL|Jet Propulsion Lab, California| |MON|Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen| |NTR|Nuclear Thermal Rocket| |RTG|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX|
^(8 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 10 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6lyizc wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ASAT|Anti-Satellite weapon| |DoD|US Department of Defense| |ESA|European Space Agency| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |GNSS|Global Navigation Satellite System(s)| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |MEO|Medium Earth Orbit (2000-35780km)| |PNT|Positioning, Navigation and Timing|
^(8 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 15 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6k6koi wrote
Reply to ‘Extraordinary’ footage shows one of the closest known approaches of a near-Earth object — On 26 Jan. 2023, asteroid 2023 BU was about 2,200 miles above the surface of the Earth by marketrent
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |Isp|Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)| | |Internet Service Provider| |JPL|Jet Propulsion Lab, California| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |NEO|Near-Earth Object|
^(4 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 14 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6iixue wrote
Reply to NASA tested new propulsion tech that could unlock new deep space travel possibilities by Creepy_Toe2680
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |DARPA|(Defense) Advanced Research Projects Agency, DoD| |DoD|US Department of Defense| |FFSC|Full-Flow Staged Combustion| |H2|Molecular hydrogen| | |Second half of the year/month| |HEU|Highly-Enriched Uranium, fissile material with a high percentage of U-235 ("boom stuff")| |Isp|Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)| | |Internet Service Provider| |LH2|Liquid Hydrogen| |NTR|Nuclear Thermal Rocket| |SSTO|Single Stage to Orbit| | |Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |EMdrive|Prototype-stage reactionless propulsion drive, using an asymmetrical resonant chamber and microwaves| |hydrolox|Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer| |turbopump|High-pressure turbine-driven propellant pump connected to a rocket combustion chamber; raises chamber pressure, and thrust|
^(11 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 15 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6hysrd wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |CNSA|Chinese National Space Administration| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 14 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6bj9lf wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |KSC|Kennedy Space Center, Florida| |STS|Space Transportation System (Shuttle)| |TDRSS|(US) Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 14 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j6ajz9v wrote
Reply to NASA's 'Mega Moon Rocket' aced first flight and is ready for crewed Artemis II launch by sasko12
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |BFG|Big Falcon Grasshopper ("Locust"), BFS test article| |BFR|Big Falcon Rocket (2018 rebiggened edition)| | |Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice| |BFS|Big Falcon Spaceship (see BFR)| |CME|Coronal Mass Ejection| |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules| | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)| |ESA|European Space Agency| |EUS|Exploration Upper Stage| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |HLS|Human Landing System (Artemis)| |ICPS|Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage| |ITS|Interplanetary Transport System (2016 oversized edition) (see MCT)| | |Integrated Truss Structure| |Isp|Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)| | |Internet Service Provider| |KSP|Kerbal Space Program, the rocketry simulator| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |MCT|Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)| |NERVA|Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (proposed engine design)| |NRHO|Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbit| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift| |SRB|Solid Rocket Booster| |SSME|Space Shuttle Main Engine| |TLI|Trans-Lunar Injection maneuver| |TMI|Trans-Mars Injection maneuver|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX| |Starliner|Boeing commercial crew capsule CST-100| |ablative|Material which is intentionally destroyed in use (for example, heatshields which burn away to dissipate heat)| |apogee|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|
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Decronym t1_j63tvpy wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |CLPS|Commercial Lunar Payload Services| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |NET|No Earlier Than|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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Decronym t1_j626cic wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift| |SRB|Solid Rocket Booster| |SSME|Space Shuttle Main Engine|
^(3 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 26 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j5tfnyv wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |NERVA|Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (proposed engine design)| |NTP|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion| | |Network Time Protocol| |NTR|Nuclear Thermal Rocket| |RTG|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator|
^(5 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 12 acronyms.)
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Decronym t1_j5iuj1s wrote
Reply to Stereoscopic GIF of a NASA simulation of two binary black holes orbiting by EmergeHolographic
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |LIGO|Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory| |LISA|Laser Interferometer Space Antenna|
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Decronym t1_j5294vu wrote
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |L4|"Trojan" Lagrange Point 4 of a two-body system, 60 degrees ahead of the smaller body| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
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Decronym t1_j9nep56 wrote
Reply to Starship greenlit for launch after static fire test by DevilsRefugee
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ASAT|Anti-Satellite weapon| |BFR|Big Falcon Rocket (2018 rebiggened edition)| | |Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice| |FAA|Federal Aviation Administration| |ITAR|(US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations| |SLS|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
^(6 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 8 acronyms.)
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