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|    Astro/Space Frequently Seen Acronyms (4/    |
|    15 Dec 25 02:00:00    |
      [continued from previous message]              UBM: Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism       UDMH: Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine       UFO: Unidentified Flying Object       UGC: Uppsala General Catalog       UHF: Ultra High Frequency       UIT: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package)       UKST: United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope       USAF: United States Air Force       USMP: United States Microgravity Payload       USNO: United States Naval Observatory       UT: Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, or Zulu Time; cf UTC)       UTC: Coordinated Universal Time (subtly different from UT)       UV: UltraViolet       UVS: UltraViolet Spectrometer       VAB: Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)       VAFB: Vandenberg Air Force Base       VEEGA: Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path)       VHF: Very High Frequency       VLA: Very Large Array       VLBA: Very Long Baseline Array       VLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry       VLF: Very Low Frequency       VLT: Very Large Telescope       VMS: Vertical Motion Simulator       VOIR: Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM)       VPF: Vertical Processing Facility       VRM: Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan)       VTHL: Vertical Takeoff Horizontal Landing       VTVL: Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing       WD: White Dwarf       WFF: Wallops Flight Facility       WFPC: Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST)       WFPCII: Replacement for WFPC       WIYN: Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope       WR: Western Range (was WTR)       WSF: Wake Shield Facility       WSMR: White Sands Missile Range       WTR: Western Test Range       WUPPE: Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)       XMM: X-ray Multi Mirror       XUV: eXtreme UltraViolet       YSO: Young Stellar Object       Z: Zulu (see UT)              -- Mark Bradford (tla@surly.org) <> To err is human, to moo bovine.       "It is good to have an open mind, but not at both ends."              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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