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Getting CDR confused with CIDS?
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| AMMOS | |
| AOT | Astronomical Observation Template |
| BOA | Beginning Of Activity |
| BOT | Beginning Of Track |
| CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| CDR | Central Data Recorder (Records the downlink data at TMOD.) |
| CDR | Critical Design Review |
| CIDS | Critical Item Development Specification |
| CLCW | Command Link Control Word |
| CMLB | Ceramic Multi-Layer Board |
| CTA | Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (SIRTF without instruments and spacecraft.) |
| CTF | |
| CTIA | Capacitive Feedback Transimpedance Amplifier |
| DB | Database |
| DCE | Data Collection Event |
| DQE | Detective Quantum Efficiency |
| DSCC | |
| DSN | Deep Space Network |
| EEIS | End-to-end Information System (How the data get from our focal planes to your computer) |
| EOA | End Of Activity |
| EOT | End Of Track |
| EOT | Engineering Observation Template (Communicate engineering data to S/C.) |
| ERT | Earth Relative Time |
| ESD | Electrostatic Discharge |
| ESDS | Electrostatic Discharge Sensitive |
| FPA | Focal Plane Array |
| FPM | Focal Plane Module |
| FRR | Facility Requirements Review |
| FSRR | |
| FSW | Flight Software |
| GO | General Observer (In the end, gets most of the time) |
| GTO | Guaranteed Time Observer (A big cheese that does not need a proposal.) |
| HK | Housekeeping |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope (Lots of money in the sky.) |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| IOC | In-Orbit Checkout |
| IRAC | Infrared Array Camera (One of three instruments on SIRTF.) |
| IRAS | Infrared Astronomy Satellite (The granddad of SIRTF.) |
| IRD | Interface Requirement Document |
| IRS | Infrared Spectrograph (One of three instruments on SIRTF.) |
| IRS | Internal Revenue Service (Not really part of SIRTF, we hope.) |
| ISO | Infrared Space Observatory (A poor man's SIRTF. On the other hand it is in space and not on paper.) |
| IT | Instrument Team (MIPS, IRS, IRAC) |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer (RIP) |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| MDIRD | Mission Data Interface Requirements Document (Who talks to whom?) |
| MDS | Mission Data System |
| MGSO | |
| MIPS | Multiband Imaging Photometer for SIRTF (The best of SIRTF) |
| MIPS | Multimission Image Processing System (Not related to SIRTF!!!) |
| MMNAV | |
| MOC | Mission Operations Center |
| MOS | Mission Operations System |
| MOS | Metal-oxide-semiconductor (Reads out our detectors) |
| MRR | Mission Requirements Request |
| MTF | Modulation Transfer Function |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| ORR | Observatory Requirements Review |
| PCS | Pointing Control System (What are we looking at? and When?) |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PMDSRR | Preliminary Mission Data System Requirements Review |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| S/C | (SIRTF without instruments and CTA) |
| SAO | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
| SBRC | Santa Barbara Research Center |
| SCET | Spacecraft Event Time |
| SCLK | Spacecraft Clock |
| SDT | SIRTF Design Team |
| SIRTF | Space Infrared Telescope Facility |
| SOC | Science Operations Center (IPAC) |
| SOS | Science Operations System |
| SOWG | Science Operations Working Group |
| TBA | To Be Announced |
| TBD | To Be Determined, Delivered, Designed, Developed, ... (We don't know this yet.) |
| TBR | To Be Resolved (What TBD becomes when you have a clue) |
| TMOD | Telecommunication and Mission Operations Directorate (The antennae.) |
| TXR | Transmitter |
| UC | University of California |
| UC | User Community |
| UTCS | Universal Time Coordinate System |
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