Orbital Minotaur VI - Manual (Page 14)

Minotaur IV • V • VI User’s Guide Glossary
A-CAT 1 Acquisition Category
A/D Arm/Disarm
AADC Alaska Aerospace Development
Corporation
ACS Attitude Control System
AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory
ait Atmospheric Interceptor Technology
BCM Booster Control Module
BER Bit Error Rate
C/CAM Collision/Contamination Avoidance
Maneuver
CBOB Clamp Band Opening Device
CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CDR Critical Design Review
CG Center-of-Gravity
CLA Coupled Loads Analysis
CLF Commercial Launch Facility
CVCM Collected Volatile Condensable
Mass
DIACAP DoD Information Assurance
Certification and Accreditation
Process
DPAF Dual Payload Adapter Fitting
ECU Environmental Control Unit
EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
EGSE Electrical Ground Support
Equipment
EME Electromagnetic Environment
EMI Electromagnetic Interface
ER Eastern Range
ESPA EELV Secondary Payload Adapter
FRR Flight Readiness Review
FTS Flight Termination System
GCA Guidance and Control Assembly
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit
GFE Government Furnished Equipment
GFP Government Furnished Property
GN
2
Gaseous Nitrogen
GPB GPS Positioning Beacon
GPS Global Positioning System
GTO Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
HAPS Hydrazine Auxiliary Propulsion
System
HVAC Heating, Ventilation and Air
Conditioning
ICD Interface Control Document
INS Inertial Navigation System
KLC Kodiak Launch Complex
KSC Kennedy Space Center
LAN Longitude of Ascending Node
LC-46 Launch Complex 46
LCR Launch Control Room
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LEV Launch Equipment Vault
LOCC Launch Operations Control Center
LRR Launch Readiness Review
LSE Launch Support Equipment
LSV Launch Support Van
LV Launch Vehicle
MACH Modular Avionics Control Hardware
MARS Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport
MDR Mission Design Review
MDR Mission Dress Rehearsal
MGSE Mechanical Ground Support
Equipment
MICD Mechanical Interface Control
Drawing
MIWGs Mission Integration Working Groups
MLB Motorized Lightband
MPAF Multi-Payload Adapter Fitting
MPAP Multi-Payload Adapter Plate
MPE Maximum Predicted Environment
MPF Minotaur Processing Facility
MRD Mission Requirements Document
MRR Mission Readiness Review
MST Mission Simulation Test
MTO Medium Transfer Orbit
NTO Nitrogen Tetroxide
ODM Ordnance Driver Module
OML Outer Mold Line
OR Operations Requirements
OSP-3 Orbital Suborbital Program 3
P-POD Poly-Pico Orbital Deployer
PAF Payload Attach Fitting
PAM Payload Adapter Module
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PDR Preliminary Design Review
PEM Program Engineering Manager
PPF Payload Processing Facility
PRD Program Requirements Document
RAAN Right Ascension of Ascending Node
RF Radio Frequency
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