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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACE
Advanced Composition Explorer
AFOSR
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
ARGOS
Advanced Research and Global Observations Satellite
CANOPUS
Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study
CEDAR
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
CGRO
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
CME
Coronal mass ejection
CSSP
Committee on Solar and Space Physics
CSTR
Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research
DMSP
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD
Department of Defense
DOE
Department of Energy
DSN
Deep Space Network
EIT
Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
ESA
European Space Agency
EUV
Extreme ultraviolet
EVA
Extravehicular activity
FAST
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
GEM
Geospace Environment Modeling program
GGS
Global Geospace Science program
GIC
Geomagnetically induced current
GOES
Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite
GONG
Global Oscillations Network Group
GPS
Global positioning system
GRO
Gamma-ray Observatory
HESSI
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
IMAGE
Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration
IMP
Interplanetary Monitoring Platform mission
ISAS
Institute for Space and Astronautical Studies
ISS
International Space Station
ISTP
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LASCO
Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph
L1
First Lagrangian point (on Earth-Sun line)
MIDEX
Medium Explorer
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NGDC
National Geophysical Data Center
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
NSF
National Science Foundation
NSO
National Solar Observatory
NSWP
National Space Weather Program
ONR
Office of Naval Research
OSS
Office of Space Science (NASA)
PCO
Polar Cap Observatory
PI
Principal Investigator
SAMPEX
Solar Anomalous Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
SEC
Space Environment Center
SEON
Solar Electro Optical Network
SHINE
Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment program
SMEX
Small Explorer
SOHO
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
STS
Space Transportation System
SUNRISE
Sun's Radiative Inputs from Sun to Earth program
SuperDARN
Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
SWS
Space Weather Squadron
TIMED
Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Energetics and Dynamics mission
TRACE
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
UARS
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UHF
Ultrahigh frequency
USAF
United States Air Force
UV
Ultraviolet
VLF
Very low frequency
WWW
World Wide Web