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A7.7 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

BAM Bame Experiment
BER Bit Error Rate
BPI Bits Per Inch
DACS Data Capture and Staging Subsystem
DMT Data Management Team
DOY Day of Year
DRS Data Records System
EDR Experiment Data Record
EDRGEN EDR Generation (program)
ENG E Extracted Engineering
ENGR Spacecraft Engineering
ENG S Stand-alone Engineering
EOF End of File
EOM End of Mission
ERT Earth Received Time
ESOC European Space Operation Center
ESTEC European Space Technology Research Center
FEP Front End Processor
GLG Gloeckler-Geiss Experiment
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GRU Gruen Experiment
HED Hedgecock Experiment
HK Housekeeping
HDR Header
HUS Hurley-Sommer Experiment
ID Identification
IDR Intermediate Data Record
INST Science Instrument
IPC JPL Information Processing Center
IRG Inter-record Gap
ISPM International Solar Polar Mission
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KEP Keppler Experiment
LAN Lanzerotti Experiment
MDR Master Data Record
MOS Mission Operations System
PB Playback
PI Principal Investigator
QQC Quality, Quantity, Continuity
RSS Radio Science Subsystem
RTTP Real Time Telemetry Processor
S/C Spacecraft
SCET Spacecraft Event Time
SCLK Spacecraft Clock (count)
SDR System Data Record
SFDU Standard Formatted Data Units
SIM Simpson Experiment
SIS Software Interface Specification
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio
SRD Software Requirements Document
STO Stone Experiment
TBD To Be Determined
TBS To BeSupplied
TM Tape Mark
UTC Universal Time, Coordinated

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