BESS
Balloon-borne Superconducting Spectrometer
BEXUS
Balloon Experiment for University Students (ESA/Sweden/
DLR)
BIF
Balloon Inflation Facility
BIT
Balloon Imaging Telescope (also SuperBIT)
BITSE
Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of
BLAST
Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
BLOS
Beyond Line of Sight
BOBCAT
Balloon-borne Cryogenic Telescope Testbed
BOLIDE
Balloon Lidar Experiment
BLAST-TNG
Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
BOLIDE
Balloon Lidar Experiment
BOOMERANG Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation
and Geophysics
BOPPS
Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science
BPO
Balloon Program Office (Wallops Flight Facility)
BOPPS
The Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science
CALIPSO
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite
Observation
CAS
Clean Air Sector (South Pole)
CAS
Chinese Academy of Sciences
CD
Cherenkov Detector
CDR
Critical Design Review
CfAI
Durham University Centre for Advanced Instrumentation
CGRO
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
CIP
Consolidated Instrument Package
CLARREO
Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory
CMB
Cosmic Microwave Background
CNES
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (France’s Space Agency)
CONCORDIASI A CNES balloon program
CONOPS
Concept of Operations
COSI
Compton Spectrometer and Imager (U of Cal/Berkeley)
COSPAR
Committee on Space Research
COSTEM
Committee on STEM Education
CREAM
Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass experiment
CSA
Canadian Space Ageny
CSBF
Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility
CSIRO
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
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