AIT Atomic International Time
AIV Assembly-Integration-Verification
AO Announcement of Opportunity
CCSDS Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDF Common Data Format (SFDU data format)
CDHF Central Data Handling Facility
CDS Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
CELIAS Charge, ELement and Isotope Analysis
CEPAC COSTEP -- ERNE Particle Analyser Collaboration
CMS Command Management System
Co-I Co-Investigator
COSTEP COmprehensive SupraThermal and Energetic Particle analyser
DDF Data Distribution Facility
DSN Deep Space Network
ECS EOF Core System
ECS FRD ECS Functional Requirements Document
EGSE Electrical Ground Support Equipment
EIT Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
EOF Experiment Operations Facility
ERNE Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment
ESA European Space Agency
ESOC European Space Operations Centre (ESA, Darmstadt)
Ethernet local area network defined by ISO 802.3
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDF Flight Dynamics Facility
FITS Flexible Image Transport System
FOT Flight Operations Team
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GCI GeoCentric Inertial
GDCF/Pacor ISTP Program Generic Data Capture Facility / Packet Processor
GGS Global Geospace Science
GI Guest Investigator
GISC Guest Investigator Selection Committee
GOLF Global Oscillations at Low Frequency
GSE Geocentric Solar Ecliptic
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSM Geocentric Solar Magnetic
IDL Interactive Data Language
IPD Infomation Processing Division
ISTP International Solar-Terrestrial Physics
IUE International Ultraviolet Explorer
IWS Instrumenter Workstation
LAN Local Area Network
LASCO Large Angle Spectroscopic COronagraph
MAR Mission Analysis Room
MOR Mission Operations Room
MDI/SOI Michelson Doppler Imager/Solar Oscillations Imager
N/A Not Applicable
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NFS Network File Services
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRT Near Real-Time
NSI NASA Science Internet
NSO National Solar Observatory
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
OBT On-Board Time
PACOR Packet Processor
P/M Payload Module
PI Principal Investigator
POCC Payload Operations Control Center
PS Project Scientist
PSO Project Scientist Office
PVL Parameter Value Language
R/T Real-Time
S/C SpaceCraft
SDAC Solar Data Analysis Center
SDC Science Data Coordinator
SELDADS Space Environment Laboratory Data Acquisition and Display System
SELSIS Space Environment Laboratory Solar Imaging System
SFDU Standard Formatted Data Unit
SMIP SOHO Mission Implementation Plan
SMIRD SOHO Mission Implementation Requirements Document
SMM Solar Maximum Mission
SMOCC SOHO Mission Operations Control Center
SOC Science Operations Coordinator
SOHO SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
SOWG SOHO Science Operations Working Team
SOL Science Operations Leader
SOP Science Operations Plan
SOT Science Operations Team
SQL Structured Query Language
SUMER Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation
SWAN Solar Wind ANisotropies
SWT Science Working Team
TAI Temps Atomique International
TBC To Be Confirmed
TBD To Be Defined
TC TeleCommands
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
UTC Universal Time Code
UVCS UltraViolet Coronagraph Spectrometer
VIRGO Variability of solar IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations
WS Work-Station