CWSU
Center Weather Service Units
DATT
Skyborne Airship with Detachable Airship from a Tether
Technology
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DAU
Data Archive Unit (HASP)
DLR
German Aerospace Center (Institut für Physik der
Atmosphäre)
DOS
Department of Supply (Australia)
DSTB
Deep Space Test Bed
DTH
direct-to-home television
EAR
Experiment Acceptance Review
EeV
Quintillion electron volts (a measure of energy)
E-MIST
Exposing Microorganisms in the Stratosphere
EMP
Electro Magnetic Pulse
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EOSS
Edge of Space Sciences (U of Denver)
ERB
Earth Radiation Budget
Esrange
ESA flight range (near Kiruna, Sweden)
ESRL
Earth System Research Laboratories (NOAA)
ESRO
European Space Research Organisation
ETD
Engineering and Technology Directorate (Goddard).
EUSO-SPB
Extreme Universe Space Observatory for Super Pressure
Balloon
eV
electron-Volt
FAA
Federal Aviation Administration
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
FCDS
Flight Communication and Data System (on the DSTB)
FCU
Flight Control Unit (HASP)
FSM
Fine Steering Mirror
EUSO
Extreme Universe Space Observatory
FIREBALL
Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon
FRR
Flight Readiness Review
ft
feet
GBS
Geostationary balloon satellites
GeV
Giga (billion) Volt (a measure of energy)
GHAPS
Gondola for High Altitude Planetary Science
3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project
GSNS
Global Satellite Navigation System (GSNS).
GMCC
Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change (NOAA)
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