Acronyms

  • AR&C – Autonomous Rendezvous and Capture.
  • DSO – Dynamic Space Operations.
  • ECEF – Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed. Used for ground locations.
  • ECI – Earth Central Inertial – uses for orbits, spacecraft trajectory.
  • GGNS – Guidance, Navigation and Control System.
  • GN&C – Guidance Navigation and Control.
  • T&M – Telemetry and Monitoring.
  • ISAM – In-space Servicing, Manufacturing, and Assembly.
  • LVLH – Local Vertical Local Horizontal.
  • OPS – Operational.
  • PRM – Northrop Grumman’s Passive Refueling Module.
  • RAFTI – Orbit Fab’s Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface.
  • RPOD – Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, Docking.
  • SERB – Space System Command’s System Engineering Review Board.
  • SSM – sustained space maneuver
  • STM – Space Traffic Management.
  • TACS – Target Vehicle Analysis Coordinate System. Coordinate system aligned with Target/client space craft. See IRSIS document.
  • TLM – Telemetry.
  • TT&C – Telemetry, Tracking and Command.
  • AS – Approach Sphere around the target (~10 km → ~1 km in radius).
  • KOS – Keep-Out Sphere (~100–200 m between target and chaser). Also called Keep-out Zone.
  • REP – Rendezvous Entry Point (~10s km → ~10 km). Rendezvous operations begin at the Rendezvous Entry Point (REP).
  • RS – Rendezvous Sphere.
  • SO – Service Orbit.

  • IOR – In-Orbit Refueling.
  • SV – Service Vehicle, vehicle which delivers propellant.

  • CS – Client Spacecraft, which requires the propellant to be delivered to.