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Acronyms & Abbreviations
Acronym/abbreviation | Meaning | First appears on page |
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OBSERVATIONS chapter | ||
AO | adaptive optics | 27 |
BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function | 20 |
COPUOS | (UN) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space | 18 |
D&QS Report | Dark & Quiet Skies Report | 3 |
EIRP | effective isotropic radiated power | 20 |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission | 18 |
IAU | International Astronomical Union | 3 |
ITU | International Telecommunications Union | 18 |
LEO | low-Earth orbit | 1 |
LEOsat | LEO satellite | 1 |
NIR | near-infrared | 2 |
OEM | orbit ephemeris message | 19 |
OMM | Orbit Mean-elements Message | 24 |
STK | Systems Tool Kit | 26 |
TLE | two-line element | 2 |
WCS | World Coordinate System | 9 |
ALGORITHMS chapter | ||
18SPCS | US Space Force 18th Space Control Sqn. | 20 |
API | applications programming interface | 13 |
BRDF | bidirectional reflectance distribution function | 17 |
CADC | Canadian Astronomy Data Centrer | 12 |
ESA | European Space Agency | 12 |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System | 22 |
GPU | Graphics Processing UNit | 17 |
ICRS | International Celestial Reference System | 6 |
ILRS | International Laser Ranging Service | 20 |
ITC | International Telecommunications Corporation | 22 |
SATCON2 Observations Working Group Report
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