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MTG
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
[DRL code : PM-30 ] [AD code : AD-26C-01]
Written by Responsibility
+ handwritten signature if no electronic workflow tool
MTG Team
Verified by
S. RAPHEL Project Control Manager
Ph. TANGUY
Technical Manager
Th. GRASSIN Satellite PA Manager
Approved by
A. LAMOTHE Project Manager
Approval evidence is kept within the documentation management system.
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CHANGE RECORDS
ISSUE
DATE § CHANGE RECORDS AUTHOR
01 21/09/2010 New reference MTG-TAF-SY-TN-0033 : this document replaces the previous one (MTG-TAF-SA-TN-0033 issue 4)
MTG Team
02 15/02/2011 Updated version for SRR MTG Team
03 14/10/2011 Updated in support of the Baseline Document Review (BDR).
MTG Team
04 30/04/2012 Updated in support of the System PDR MTG Team
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DISTRIBUTION LIST
Company Name
X ESA
X EUMETSAT
X OHB
X KT
X All subcos
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 5
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................ 5
1.2 Applicability ................................................................................................................. 5
2. DOCUMENTARY REFERENCE .......................................................................................... 5
2.1 Applicable Documents ................................................................................................ 5
2.2 Reference Documents ................................................................................................. 5
3. LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................... 5
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Scope
This document provides the list of acronyms and abbreviations together with their explanations which shall be used within the MTG contract.
1.2 Applicability
This document shall be a reference document for all the documents of the MTG contract at all the levels (system, satellite, instruments, sub-systems, units). Specific acronyms could nevertheless be proposed or recalled in each MTG document to complement this list.
By another hand, the document [AD-26C-02] provides a short list of key definitions used in MTG documentation to identify spacecraft elements.
2. DOCUMENTARY REFERENCE
2.1 Applicable Documents
AD 16: MTG-ESA-SA-RS-0062 03 Spacecraft System Requirements Document
AD-26C-02 MTG-TAF-SA-TN-0599 01 MTG Terms and Definitions
2.2 Reference Documents
NA
3. LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT AAD AOCS Auxiliary Data
ABCL As-Built Configuration List
ABM Apogee Boost Motor
AC Applicability with complements
ACR AIT Change Request
AD Applicable Document
ADC Analog to Digital Converter
ADCS Attitude Determination & Control System
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT ADD Architectural Design Document
ADP Acceptance Data Package
AEG Application Expert Group
AFIS Association française d'Ingénierie système
AFM Autocollimation Flat Mirror New
AGA Absolute Geometric Accuracy
AGP Application Ground Processing
AGSI Advanced Geo Synchronous Imager (precursor of GOES Advanced Baseline Imager)
AIT Assembly, Integration and test
AIV Assembly, Integration, Test & Verification
AIVV Assembly, Integration, Test, Verification & Validation
AMDAR Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay
AME Absolute Measurement Error
AMT Architecture Mechanic and Thermic
AN Analog
AOCS Attitude & Orbit Control System
AOT Aerosol Optical Thickness
APA Absolute Positioning Accuracy
APC AOCS A-Priori Compensation
APPE Absolute Pixel Position Error
APPKE Absolute Pixel Position Knowledge Error
APS Active Pixel Sensor
AR Acceptance Review
ARA Absolute Radiometric Accuracy
ASIC Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPE Absolute Sample Position Error
ASPKE Absolute Sample Position Knowledge Error
ASW Application Software
ATB Avionics test Bench
ATC Active Thermal Control
ATP Authorisation to Proceed
AUFDIR Autonomy & FDIR specification
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVM Avionics Validation Model
b Bit
BACH Bus Acquisition Control Handler
BB Breadboard / Blackbody
BCR Battery Charge Regulator
BCR Bus Controller
BDR Battery Discharge Regulator
BDR Baseline Design Review
BEM Battery Electrical Model
BER Bit Error Rate
BOF Beginning Of Life
BRC Baseline Repeat Cycles
BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
BSCC Beam Splitter and Corner Cubes
BST Battery Simulation Tool
Byte Octet
C Compliant
C & CCP Cleanliness and Contamination Control Plan
CA Cold Assembly New
CAD Computer Assisted Drawing
CAL CALibration
CAPE Convective Available Potential Energy
CATR Compact Antenna Test Range New
CBA Cost Benefit Analysis
CC Command Control
CCA Cryocoolers Assembly
CCB Configuration Control Board
CCD Coupled Charged Device
CCDA Cryocoolers Dampers
CCDM Configuration Control & Document Management New
CCDMP Configuration Control & Document Management Plan
CCE Cryocoolers Electronics
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT CCIS Command Control Implementation Specification
CCM Corner Cube Mechanism
CCN Contract Change Notice
CCS Cryocoolers System
CCSDS Consultative Committee for Space data Systems
CCU Cryocoolers Units
CDA Cold Detection Assembly
CDMU Central data Management Unit
CDR Critical Design Review
CDS Correlated Double Sampling
CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CFA Cold Finger Assembly
CFE Customer Furnished Equipment
CFI Customer Furnished Item
CGMS Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CI Configuration Item
CIDL Configuration Item Data List
CIS Configuration Inspection
CM Compliance Matrix
CMA Cryocooler Mechanical Assembly
CMP Configuration management plan
CMT Cadmium Mercury Telluride
CMV Cloud Motion Vector
CO Cold Optics New
CoG Centre of Gravity
CoM Centre of Momentum
COM Calibration and Obturation Mechanism
COTS Component Off The Shelf
CPA ComPressor Assembly
CPP Coordinated Parts Procurement
CPPA Coordinated Parts Procurement Agent
CPTP SpW CCSDS Packet Transfer Protocol
CRR Commissioning Results Review
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT CRS Coarse Rate sensor ; Cleanliness Requirement Specification
CSA Cryocooler Supporting Assembly
CSP Cryocooler Supporting Panel
CSS Coarse Sun Sensor
CVCM Collected Volatile Condensable Material
DA Detector Assembly New
DAC Digital Analog Converter
DB Digital Bi-level
DCAPE Downdraught Convective Available Potential Energy
DCEA Detection Control Electronics Assembly
DCL Declared Components List
DCN Document Change Notice
DCP Data Collection Platform
DCR Document Change Record
DCS Data Collection System Payload
DCSOT Detection Chain Setting Optimisation Tool
DCU Drive Control Unit
DDCP Documentation and Data Control Plan
DDD Detailed Design Document
DDP Design and Development Plan
DDR Detailed Design Review ( for OBSW)
DDU Data Distribution Unit
DDU-I MTG-I Data Distribution Unit
DDU-S MTG-S Data Distribution Unit
DE Detection Efficiency
DEA Detection & Electronics Assembly
DEDT Data Evolution Display Tool
DET Direct Energy Transfer
DH Data-Handling
DHS Data Handling System
DHU Data Handling Unit
DISL Deliverable Items & Services List
DJF Design Justification File
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT DM Development Model
DML Declared Material List
DMPL Declared mechanical part list
DNEL Disconnect Non-Essential Line
DPL Declared Process list
DPU Data Processing Unit
DR Digital Relay ; Decision review
DRB Delivery review Board
DRD Document Requirements Description /Definition
DRL Document Requirement list
DS16 Digital Serial 16 bits acquisition
DU Detection Unit
DVM Design Verification Matrix
DVP Development and Verification Plan
E/W East/West
EAS Environmental Anomaly Sensor
EC European Community
ECA Earth Centre Angle
ECEF Earth Centered Earth Fixed Frame
ECMWF European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
ECP Engineering Change Proposal
ECSS European Cooperation for Space Standardisation
EED Electric Explosive Device
EEE Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EGSE Electrical ground support Equipment
EIDP End Item Data Package
EM Engineering Model
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
EOL End Of Life
EOS Earth Observing System
EPS Electrical Power Subsystem
EQM Engineering & Qualification Model
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT EQSOL Equipment Switch-Off line
EQSR Equipment Qualification Suitability Review
ESA European Space Agency
ESD Electro Static Discharge
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EUM GS EUMETSAT Ground Segment
EURD End Users Requirements Document
FA Fire Application
FAR Flight Acceptance Review – False Alarm Rate
FCB Functional Configuration Baseline
FCI Flexible Combined Imager
FD Full Disk
FDC Full Disk Coverage
FDHSI Full Disk High Spectral resolution Imagery mission
FDIR Failure Detection Isolation and Recovery
FDSS Full Disc Scanning Services
FEE-I FCI Front End Electronics
FEE-S IRS Front End Electronics
FEM Finite Element Model
FF Fill Factor
FFT Final Functional Test New
FGSE Fluid Ground Support Equipment
FM Flight Model
FMAR Final Mission Analysis review
FMECA Failure Modes, Effects and Critical Analysis
FOM Flight Operations Manual
FOR Field Of Regard
FOV Field Of View
FP Final Preparation New
FPA Focal Plane Array
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPM Fine Pointing Mode
FRR Flight Readiness Review
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT FSD Foreign Satellite Data
FSDS Foreign Satellite Data Services
FT Free Troposphere
FTS Fourier Transform Spectrometer
FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum
FWIS Future WMO Information System
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit
GERB Geostationary Earth radiation Budget instrument
GFRP Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer
GHT Good Health Test
GIQ Geometric Image Quality
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GMS Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GOES American Geostationary Environmental Operational Satellite
GOMS Russian Federation Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GOS Global Observing System
GPAT Geometric Performance Assessment Tool
GPS Global Positioning System
GS Ground Segment
GSE Ground Support Equipment
GSHHS Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High Resolution Shoreline
GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing Systems
GYR GYRo
H/W Hardware
HACO High Accuracy Crystal Oscillator
HATC High Accuracy Time Counter
HF High Frequency
HIRLAM High Resolution Local Area Model
HK House Keeping
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT HKTM House Keeping Telemetry
HL High Level command
HLC High Level Command
HP High Priority command – Heat pipe
HP2P High Priority command from RM
HR High resolution
HRDM High Rate Diagnostic Mode
HRFI High Resolution Fast Imagery mission
HRIT High Rate Image Transmission
HRV High Resolution Visible
HSIA H/W SW Interface Analysis
HSSL High Speed Serial Link
I For Information only
I/O Input/Output signals
IA Interferometer Assembly
IAD Instrument’s Auxiliary Data
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IBI In-Built Imager
ICD Interface Control Document
ICDR Interface Control Drawing
ICE Interferometer Control Electronics
ICRA Inter-Channel Coregistration Accuracy
ICU Instrument Control Unit
ICU-I FCI Instrument Control Unit
ICU-S IRS Instrument Control Unit
IDA Infrared Detection Assembly
IDCS International Data Collection System
IDNE Inter-Dwell Navigation Error
IDP Instrument Data Processor / Image & Data Processor
IDS Interface Data Sheet / Image Data Simulator
IE Integrated Energy
IFM IQT-S/INR FPM Microvibration
IFT Initial Functional test new
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT IFOV Instantaneous Field of View
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
ILS Integrated Logistic Support
IMF Instrument mounting frame
INR Image Navigation and Registration
ISNE Inter-Swath Navigation Error
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO)
IOCR In Orbit Commissioning Review
IOS Industrial Organisation Structure
IPC Industrial Police Committee
IPSF Instrument Point Spread Function
IQGSE Image Quality Ground Support Equipment ( for MSG)
IQT Instrument Quality Tool
IQT-I Instrument Quality Tool for MTG-I
IQT-S Instrument Quality Tool for MTG-S
IR Infrared
IR1DA Infrared #1 Detection Assembly
IR2DA Infrared #2 Detection Assembly
IR3DA Infrared #3 Detection Assembly
IRD Interface Requirements Document
IRF Instrument Response Function
IRP Image Rectification Process
IRS Infrared Sounding Mission
ISC Integrated Satellite Check New
ISNE Inter Swath Navigation Error
ISP Instrument Supporting Plate New
ISRF Instrument Spectral Response Function
ISS Interleaved Scan Service
IST Integrated System Test
ISVV Independent Software Verification and Validation
ITT Invitation To Tender
ITU International Telecommunications Union
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT KAA PDD Ka Band Antenna (KAA)
Kb 1024 bits
KB or Kbytes 1024 bytes
Kb/s 1000b/s
kbps 1000b/s
KEF Knife Edge Function New
KIP Key Inspection Point new
KO Kick-Off (Knock Out eWAND only) modified
KTA PDD Ka Band Transmitter (KTA)
L1PP Level 1 Prototype Processor
LAC Local Area Coverage
LCBT Landlmark Catalogue Builder Tool
LDT Large Data Transfer
LDU Large Data Unit
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LEOP Low Earth Orbit Phase
LI Lightning Imager
LIRD Launch Vehicle Interface Requirements Document
LISN Line Impedance Stabilization Network
LLC Low Level Command
LM Landmark
LME LI Main Electronics
LNR High Speed Link (Ligne Numérique Rapide)
LOBT Local OBT
LOF Local Orbital Frame
LOH LI Optical Head
LOS Line Of Sight
LRC LAC Repeat Cycle
LRIT Low Rate Image Transmission
LRR Launch Readiness Review
LS Lower Stratosphere
LSF Line Spread Function new
LST Land Surface Temperature
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT LT Lower Troposphere
LTE Leak Test Equipment
LUT Look-Up Table
LWIR Long Wave InfraRed
MAIT Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration and Test
MAR Mesoscale Area Region
MAIS Meeting Action Item System New
MARD Management Requirements Document New
MATER Mission Assumption and Technical Requirements
Mb/s or Mbps 1000000b/s
MCDD Mission Convention and Definition Document
MCP Mission Communication Payload
MCR Mission Close-out Review
MCT Mercury Cadmium Telluride
MD Mechanical Dummy
MDR Mission Definition Review
MDT Mean Down Time
ME Main Electronic
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MEOP Maximum Expected Operating Pressure
MET Mechanical Environmental Test New
MFV Meteosat Field of View
MGSE Mechanical Ground Support Equipment
MIP Mandatory Inspection Point new
ML16 Memoru Load 16 bits command
MLI Multi Layer Insulation
MM Mass Memory
MMH Monomethylhydrazine
MMI Main Machine Interface
MMPDS Metallic Materials Properties development and Standardisation
MOA Main Optical Assembly new
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer
MOIS Mission Operations Infrastructure System
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT MoM Minutes of Meeting
MON Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen
MOPD Maximum Optical Path Difference
MOS Margin Of Safety
MOTA Multi Optical Test Assembly new
MOTS Modified Off The Shelf
MPPT Maximum Power Point Tracker
MRB Material Review Board
MRD Mission Requirements Document
MRR Manufacturing Readiness Review
MSG Meteosat Second Generation
MTB Magneto Torquer Bar
MTBDE Mean Time Between Downing Events
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTD Mass & Thermal Dummy
MTF Modulation Transfer Function
MTG Meteosat Third Generation
MTG-I MTG - Imaging spacecraft containing FCI, LI, DCS and SAR
MTG-S MTG - Sounder spacecraft containing IRS and UVN
MTL Mission Time Line
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
N/A Not Applicable
N/S North/South
NavLM set of LandMarks used for Navigation in the INR
NC Non Compliant
NCR Non Conformance Report
ND Normative Document
NDPA Normative Document in PARD
NEDM Noise Equivalent Differential Radiance
NEDR Noise Equivalent Delta Radiance
NEDT Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature
NIR Near-Infrared
NIRDA Non Infrared Detection Assembly
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT NMS National Meteorological Services
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System
NPP NPOESS Preparatory Programme
NPSD Noise Power Spectral Density
NR Normative Document
NRB Non Conformance Review Board
NWC Nowcasting
NWP Numerical Weather Prediction
OAIS Open Archival Information System (CCSDS Std)
OBA Optical Bench Assembly
OBCP On-Board Control Procedure
OBDH On-Board Data Handling communication bus
OBOP On-Board Operation Procedure
OBSW On-Board S/W
OBT On-Board Time
OC Operational Concepts
OGSE Optical Ground Support Equipment
OIRD Operational Interface Requirements Document
OMM Optical and radiometric Mathematical Model
OP Output Pulse
OPD Optical Path Difference
OS Optical Switch
OSA Optical Sounder Assembly
OTC Operational Thermal Control new
OVT Optical Vacuum Test new
PA Product Assurance – Partially Applicable
PAD Parts Approval Document
PAN Peroxyacetyl nitrate
PARD Product Assurance Requirements Document
PAT Performance Assessment Tool
PBL Planetary Boundary Layer
PC Partially Compliant
PCA Pressurant Control Assembly
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT PCDU Power Conditioning & Distribution Unit
PCR Preliminary Concept Review
PCU Power Conditioning Unit
PDD Payload Data Downlink
PDE Pointing Drift Error
PDG Payload Data Generator
PDHU Payload Data Handling Unit
PDIS Platform/Payload Data-handling Interface Simulator
PDM Product Data Management
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PF or P/F PlatForm
PFDHU PlatForm Data Handling Unit
PFM Proto Flight Model
PIA Propellant Isolation Assembly
PID Proportional Integral Generator
PL or P/L PayLoad
PLDHU PayLoad Data Handling Unit
PLTM PayLoad TeleMetry
PM Processor Module - Progress Meeting
PMAR Preliminary Mission Analysis Review
PMD Propellant Management Device
PMP Project Management Plan
PPM Parts Per Million
PPS Pulse Per Second
PROM Programmable Memory
PROS Propulsion System
PREMET Pre Mechanical Environmental Test New
PRR Preliminary Requirements Review
PSD Power Spectrum Density
PSF Point Spread Function
PSR Prestorage Review
PT Product Tree
PTR Post Test Review
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT PUS Packet Utilization Standard
QA Quality Assurance
QE Quantum Efficiency
QM Qualification Model
QOS Quality Of Service
QR Qualification Review
QRR Qualification Results Review
QTH Quartz Tungsten Halogen new
QWIP Quantum Well Integrated Photodetector
RAM Random Access Memory
RAMS Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety
RAU Receiver Assembly Unit
RB Requirement Baseline
RC Repeat Cycle
RCP Radiometric Correction Process
RD Reference Document
RDCS Regional Data Collection System
RDM Raw Data Modulator of MCP
RF Radio-Frequency
RFA Request For Approval
RFC Radio-Frequency Compatibility
RFD Request For Deviation
RFDN Radio Frequency Distribution Network
RFJ Requirements Justification File
RFQ Request For Quotation
RFW Request For Waiver
RGA Relative Geometric Accuracy
RGF Reference Grid Frame
RID Review Item Discrepancy
RIQ Radiometric Image Quality
RM Reconfiguration Module
RMDCN Regional Meteorological Data Communication Network
RME Relative Measurement Error
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT RML Recovered Mass Loss
RMS Root Mean Squared
RMU Radiation Monitoring Unit
ROI Region of Interest
ROIC Read-Out Integrated Circuit
ROM Rough Order of Magnitude
RPAT Radiometric Performance Assessment Tool
RPE Relative Pointing Error
RPM Round Per Minute
RPPKE Relative Pixel Position Knowledge Error
RRA Relative Radiometric Accuracy
RSC Rapid Scan Cycles
RSE Remote Sensing Expert
RSPE Relative Sample Position Error
RSPKE Relative Sample Position Knowledge Error
RSS Rapid Scanning Services
RT Remote Terminal
RTK Real Time Kernel
RTM Radiative Transfer Model
RW Reaction Wheel
RWA Reaction Wheel Assembly
RWD Reaction Wheel Damper
RWI Reaction Wheel Isolator
RX Receiver
S/S SubSystem
S/W Software
SA Solar Array
SADM Solar Array Drive Mechanism
SAF Satellite Application Facilities
SAR or S&R Search & Rescue
SATSIM SATellite SIMulator
SB Spacebus
SBC Spacecraft Body Coordinate system
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT SBDL Standard Bi-level Digital Line
SC or S/C SpaceCraft
SCAE-I FCI Scan Assembly Electronics
SCAE-S IRS Scan Assembly Electronics
SCA-I FCI Scan Assembly
SCA-S IRS Scan Assembly
SCAU-I FCI Scan Assembly Unit
SCAU-S IRS Scan Assembly Unit
SCCDB Satellite Characterisation and Calibration Data Base
SCF Software Configuration File
SCMC Scan, COM Mechanisms & Compensation management function
SCOS Spacecraft Operating System
SCP Spectral Calibration Process
SC-SRD Spacecraft-System Requirements Document
SDB Satellite Data Base
SDVE Software Development and validation Environment
SEMP System Engineering Management Plan
SEU Single Event Upset
SFR Spatial Frequency Response new
SFT Short Functional Test
SGIRD Space to Ground Interface Requirements Document
SM Structural Model
SMS System Management Software
SMU Satellite Management Unit
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SOG Statement of Guidance
SOM Second Optical Module
SoW Statement of Work
SPAT Spectral Performance Assessment Tool
SPD Instrument’s Scan Position Data
SPR Software Problem Report
SpW SpaceWire
SRD System Requirements Document
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT SRDB Satellite Reference Data Base
SRF Spectral Response Function
SRS Software Requirements Specification
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SSA Spatial Sampling Angle ; Spectral Separation Assembly
SSD Spatial Sampling Distance
SSDA Spectral Separation & Detection Assembly
SSDE Spatial Sampling Distance Error
SSE Spatial Sampling Error
SSP Sub-Satellite Point
SST Sea Surface Temperature
STC Special Tender Conditions
STD Standard
STM Structural and Thermal Model
STR Star TRacker
SV State Vector
SVF Software Validation Facility
SVM Service Module
SVT System Validation Test
SW Software
SWBD SRTM Water Body Database
SWC Short Wave Channel
SWIR Short Wave Infrared
TA Totally Applicable ; Telescope Assembly
TAS Thales Alenia Space
TAS-F Thales Alenia Space France
TBC To Be Confirmed
TBD To Be Defined
TBS To Be Specified
TBW To Be Written New
TC Tele-command
TDHS Test Data Handling System
TDI Time Delay Integration
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT TF Transfer Frame
TGSE Thermal Ground Support Equipment
TH Thermistor
TIR Thermal Infrared
TLA Thermal Link Assembly
TLS Through Life Support
TM Telemetry
TMA Three Mirrors Anastigmat new
TMM Thermal Mathematical Model
TN Technical Note
TOA Top of the Atmosphere
ToC Table of Content
TPH Telemetry Power Harness
TRB Test Review Board
TRD Technical Requirements Document
TRR Test Readiness Review
TS Technical Specification
TTC Telemetry, Tracking & Command
TV Thermal Vacuum Test New
TWTA Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier
TX Transmitter
UIA Useful Image Area
UMARF Unified Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility
UML Unify Modeling Language
UPL Users Parts List
UPS Unified Propulsion System
URD User Requirements Document
UT Unit Tester
UTC Universal Time Code
UV Ultraviolet
UVN Ultraviolet Visible and NIR sounder (S4 payload)
V & VCM Verification & Validation Control Matrix
V & VDM Verification & Validation Definition Matrix
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ACRONYM MEANING COMMENT VAC Video Acquisition Chain
VAE-I FCI Video Acquisition Electronics
VAE-S IRS Video Acquisition Electronics
VaM Validation Matrix
VC Virtual Channel
VCA Virtual Channel Assembly
VCM Virtual Channel Multiplex
VCU-I FCI Video Chain Units
VCU-S IRS Video Chain Units
VisDA Visible Detection Assembly
VeM Verification Matrix
VerLM set of LandMarks used for Verification
VIS Visible
VNIR Visible and Near-Infrared
VSRF Very Short Range Forecast
VVJF Verification & Validation Justification File
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WCA Worst Case Analysis
WFE Wave Front Error new
WMO World Meteorological Organisation
WO Without Object
WP Work Package
WPD Work package Description
WV Water Vapor
WWW World Weather Watch
ZOPD Zero Optical Path Difference
ZPD Zero Path Difference
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