[amsat-bb] Help For Abbreviations Etc.

[Eric Skoog]

GREAT IDEA..................I'll wager I get accused of using more acronyms
than anyone!  In my Symposium Paper, I attempted to spell out all the
acronyms I did use, but I'm not sure I did in my presentation and if so,
the slides probably went by too fast for those to be "digested!."  So I
went back and resurrected the acronyms I used for the GOLF system design
introduction and have included those in this message as my 'contribution'
to the cause............

ACM               Adaptive Coding and Modulation

ADAC             Attitude Determination And Control

ADC               Analog – Digital Converter

AGC               Automatic Gain Control

AO-xx            AMSAT Oscar (satellite number) xx

APIC              Auxiliary Payload Integration Contractor

ASCENT        Advanced Satellite Communications and Exploration of New
Technology ("skunk works")

Az                  Azimuth

BPF               Band Pass Filter

BPSK            Binary Phase Shift Keying

C&DH           Control and Data Handling

CAD              Computer Aided Design

CAN              Controller Area Network

CDR              Critical Design Review

CIU                Control Interface Unit

CMD              Command

CONOPS      Concept of Operations

COTS            Commercial Off The Shelf

CSLI              CubeSat Launch Initiative

CSS               Coarse Sun Sensor

CW                Continuous Wave

DCT               Digital Communications Transceiver

DSP               Digital Signal Processing

EAR               Export Administration Regulation

El                   Elevation

ELaNa           Educational Launch of Nanosatellites

EM                 Engineering Model

EOL               End Of Life

EPS               Electric Power Subsystem

FC                 Flight Computer (an OBC)

FDM              Frequency Division Multiplex

FDX               Full Duplex

FEA               Finite Element Analysis; also Failure Effects Analysis

FEC               Forward Error Correction

FEM               Finite Element Model

FM                 Flight Model; also Frequency Modulation

FoV                Field of View

FPGA             Field Programmable Gate Array

FPS                Functional Performance Specification

GBT               GOLF Battery Tender

GEO              Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

GEVS            General Environmental Vibration Specification (NASA)

GNC              Guidance, Navigation, & Control

GND              Ground

GOLF            Greater Orbit Larger Footprint

GPS              Global Positioning System

HEO              High Earth Orbit

I2C                 Inter-Integrated Circuit

ICR                Improved Command Receiver (part of the LTM)

ID                   Identification

IF                   Intermediate Frequency

IHU                Internal Housekeeping Unit (an OBC!)

IMU                Inertial Measurement Unit

ISDE              Institute for Space and Defense Electronics (Vanderbilt
University)

ITAR               International Traffic in Arms Regulations

LDPC             Low Density Parity Check (FEC code)

LEO               Low Earth Orbit

LEPF             Low Energy Proton FinFET

LIHU              Legacy Internal Housekeeping Unit (an OBC)

LNA               Low Noise Amplifier

L.O.               Local Oscillator

LT                  Linear Transponder

LTM               Linear Transponder Module

LV                  Launch Vehicle

MEO              Medium Earth Orbit

MRR              Mission Readiness Review

MT                 Magnetorquer

MTTF             Mean Time To Fail

NASA             National Aeronautics and Space Administration

OAP               Orbit Average Power

OBC               On Board Computer

OPS               Operations

PCB               Printed Circuit Board

PCU               Power Conditioning Unit

PDR               Preliminary Design Review

PDU               Power Distribution Unit

PMAD            Power Management And Distribution

PPT               Power Point Tracker

RAD              Radiation

RBF               Remove Before Flight

RF                 Radio Frequency

RFNOC         RF Network On Chip (ETTUS)

RT/IHU          Radiation Tolerant/Internal Housekeeping Unit

RW                Reaction Wheel

RX/TX           Receiver/Transmitter (part of the LTM)

S/N                Signal to Noise (ratio)

SAA               South Atlantic Anomaly

SAW              Solar Array Wing

SDR              Software Defined Radio

SEE               Single Event Effects

SEU               Single Event Upset

SoC               System on Chip

SP                 Solar Panel

SPI                Serial Peripheral Interface

SRAM           Static Random Access Memory

SRS              System Requirements Specification

SSB              Single Side Band

SSPA            Solid State Power Amplifier

ST                 Star Tracker

STEM            Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

TDM              Time Division Multiplex

TLE               Two Line Element

TLM              Telemetry

TRL               Technology Readiness Level (scale of 1 to 9)

TT&C            Telemetry, Tracking and Command

UART            Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UHF              Ultra High Frequency

USB              Universal Serial Bus

UTC              Universal Time

uW                MicroWave

VHF              Very High Frequency

VR                Voltage Regulator

VUC             Vanderbilt University Controller

WB                Wide Band

XCVR            Transceiver
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enjoy,
Eric Skoog (K1TVV)
GOLF System Engineer



On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 2:12 PM Burns Fisher via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> It's a good idea, Gerald--I don't remember such a list, but it could have
> been.  Could you start the ball rolling by sending out the list of terms
> that you already wrote down which you did not know?  Sometimes it's hard
> for those of us steeped in them to realize what is unknown.
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:56 PM Gerald Payton via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> > Abbreviations and acronyms are a real headache for me from time to time.
> > I was told that in the past the AMSAT Journal sometimes printed a table
> of
> > abbreviations used frequently.  I have some Journals from Sept/Oct 2019
> to
> > current issue, but do not include such table.
> >
> > Is there such table available and where may I find it, please?
> >
> > I listen to Saturday's Symposium and was overwhelmed with the terms used.
> > I wrote down and looked up later a few of the terms.  I realize that it
> > probably take time to learn, but a list or table would help!
> >
> > Thanks, and 73 to all.
> >
> > Gerald "Jerry" Payton AB5R
> > EM12kh
> >
> >
> >
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