| Glossary | |
| ACE | Advanced Composition Explorer |
| ADC | Astronomical Data Center |
| ADF | Astrophysics Data Facility |
| AE | Atmospheric Explorer |
| AEROS | AEROnomy Satellite |
| AIM | Automated Internal Management |
| AMPTE | Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorer |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ARCAD | ARC Aurorale et Densite |
| CCSDS | Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
| CD-WO | Compact Disk-Write Once |
| CDAW | Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop |
| CDF | Common Data Format |
| CGRO | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
| COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer |
| COHO | Coordinated Heliospheric Observations |
| CRRES | Chemical Release and Radiation Effects Satellite |
| DADs | Digital Archive Directions |
| DE | Dynamics Explorer |
| DEDSL | Data Entity Dictionary Specification Language |
| DIRBE | Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment |
| DLT | Digital Linear Tape |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| EAST | Enhanced ADA SubseT |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EUVE | Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer |
| FAST | Fast Auroral SnapshoT |
| FIRAS | Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer |
| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System |
| FSO | FITS Support Office |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| GOES | Geostationary Observational Environmental Satellite |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HEAO | High Energy Astrophysics Observatory |
| HEASARC | High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| HUT | Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| IDA | Interactive Data Archive |
| IMAGE | Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration |
| IMP | Interplanetary Monitoring Platform |
| IRAND | Interactive Request and Name Directory |
| IRAS | Infrared Astronomical Satellite |
| ISEE | International Sun-Earth Explorer |
| ISIS | International Satellite for Ionosphere Studies |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ISTP | International Solar-Terrestrial Physics |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer |
| KP | Key Parameters |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| MAST | Multimission Archive at STScI |
| M-O | Magneto-optic |
| NARA | National Archives and Records Administration |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NDADS | NSSDC Data Archive and Distribution System |
| NMC | NSSDC Master Catalog |
| NOST | NASA/Science Office of Standards and Technology |
| NRAO | National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
| NSDF | NSSDC Supplementary Data File |
| NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System |
| OGLE | Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment |
| OMNI | Interplanetary Medium Data |
| OSO | Orbiting Solar Observatory |
| OSS | Office of Space Science |
| PDS | Planetary Data System |
| PIMS | Personnel Information Management System |
| PVL | Parameter Value Language |
| PVO | Pioneer Venus Orbiter |
| SAMPEX | Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer |
| SEC | Sun Earth Connection |
| SECDS | SEC Data System |
| SFDU | Standard Formatted Data Unit |
| SOHO | Solar & Heliospheric Observatory |
| SSDS | Space Science Data Service |
| STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute |
| TB | Terabyte |
| TRF | Technical Reference File |
| UIT | Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| WDC-A-R&S | World Data Center A for Rockets and Satellites |
| WORM | Write-Once, Read-Many |
| WUPPE | Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimetry Experiment |
| WWW | World Wide Web |