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ACLS Advanced Closed Loop System
ACR NASA’s Architecture Concept Review
ACS Attitude Control System
ANITA Analysing Interferometer for Ambient Air
ASI Italian Space Agency
ATV Automated Transfer Vehicle
BASS Business Applications and Space Solutions
CaC Cost at Completion
CAS Commercial Authentication Service
CLD Commercial LEO Destination
CLPS Commercial Lunar Payload Services
CM25 Council Ministerial 2025
CME Coronal Mass Ejection
CNSA Chinese National Space Agency
CO2 Carbon dioxide
COL Columbus module on ISS
COPUOS Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
COTS Commercial Of The Shelf
CSA Canadian Space Agency
DGNSS Differential Global Navigation Satellite System
DPTD Discovery, Preparation and Technology Development
DSL Deep Space Logistics
E3P European Exploration Envelope Programme
EAC European Astronaut Centre
ECLSS Environmental Control and Life Support System
ECSL European Centre for Space Law
EDAS EGNOS Data Access Service
EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
EISCAT European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association
ELT Extremely Large Telescope
EOL End of Life
EOM End of Mission
ESA European Space Agency
ESA BIC ESA Business Incubation Centre
ESERO European Space Education Resource Office
ESM European Service Module
ESO European Southern Observatory
ESOC European Space Operations Center
ESPRIT European System Providing Refuelling, Infrastructure & Telecommunications
EUB Exploration Utilisation Board
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EUSPA European Union Agency for the Space Programme
EVA Extravehicular Activity
ExPeRT Exploration Preparation, Research and Technology element of Terrae Novae
FE Foundational Exploration
FMI-ARC The Arctic Space Centre of Finnish Meteorological Institute
FOC Full Operational Capability
GCC Galileo Control Centre
GCS Ground Control Segment
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit
GER Global Exploration Roadmap
GMS Ground Mission Segment
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GOVSATCOM European Union Governmental Satellite Communications programme
GPS Global Positioning System
GSMC Galileo Security Monitoring Centre
GSO Geosynchronous Orbit
GSTP General Studies and Technology Programme
GTO Geostationary Transfer Orbit
GW Gateway
H2M Humans to Mars
HAS High Accuracy Service
HLR Human Lunar Return
HLS Human Landing System
HW Hardware
IAF International Astronautical Federation
ICES International Conference on Environmental Systems
I-HAB International Habitation module on Gateway
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
IMV Inter-Module Ventilation
IOC Initial Operational Capability
IR Infrared
IRIS2 Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Secure by Satellite
ISECG International Space Exploration Coordination Group
ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation
ISRU In-Situ Resource Utilisation
ISS International Space Station
ITU International Telecommunication Union
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KARI Korean Aerospace Research Institute
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LSS Life Support System
LTO Lunar Transfer Orbit
M2M Moon to Mars
MECO Main Engine Cutoff
MELiSSA Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MIDASS Microbial Detection in Air System for Space
MLM Multipurpose Logistics Module
MPH Multi-Purpose Habitat
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEA Near Earth Asteroid
NEO Near Earth Objects
NIR Near-infrared
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRTK Network Real Time Kinematic
OS-NMA Open Service Navigation Message Authentication
P/L Payload
PB-HME Programme Board Human spaceflight Microgravity and Exploration
PFP PerFluoro Propane
PI Principal Investigator
PPP Precise Point Positioning
PRS Public Regulation Service
PS Participating States
QA Quality Assurance
RC Radio Communication Signals
RF Radio Frequency
ROSCOSMOS Russian Federation Space Agency
RTK Real Time Kinematic
RV Re-entry Vehicle
S/C Spacecraft
S/N Signal-to-Noise
SAA South Atlantic Anomaly
SAR Search and Rescue Service
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SatCen European Union Satellite Centre
SBAS Satellite Based Augmentation System
SciSpacE Science in Space Environment element of Terrae Novae
SCU Spacecraft Control Unit
SECO Second-stage Engine Cutoff
SF6 Sulphur Hexafluoride
SGO Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory
SLE Sustained Lunar Evolution
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
SPEG Space Policy Expert Group
SRB Solid Rocket Booster
SRM Solid Rocket Motor
SSA Space Situational Awareness
SSC Swedish Space Corporation
SSO Sun-Synchronous Orbit
SST Space Surveillance & Tracking
SW Software
TLE Two-line Element Set
TRL Technology Readiness Level
TT&C Telemetry, Tracking and Command
TWG Technology Working Group
UAESA United Arab Emirates Space Agency
UNOOSA UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
US United States of America
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
VTOL Vertical take-off and landing
WRC World Radiocommunication Conference