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S&O - Search and Order

S/C - Spacecraft

S/W - Software

SA - Spacecraft Analyst, Single Access, or Systems Administrator

SAC - Satellite Application Centre (South Africa)

SAG - System Administrator Guide

SAIC - Science Applications International Corporation

SAM - Scan Angle Monitor

SAN - Storage Area Network

SANS - System Administration, Networking, and Security Institute

SARR - Security Assessment Response Report

SAT - Site Acceptance Testing

SBRS - Santa Barbara Remote Sensing

SCA - Sensor Chip Assemblies

SCC - System Control Center

SCH - Contact Schedule Message

SCI - Software Configuration Item

SCID - Spacecraft Identifier

SCL - Signal Conditioning Unit - Lower Equipment Module

SCN - Scan

SCP - Standard Controls Processor

SCS - Scan-Correlated Shift, Satellite Checkout Station, or NOAA/IPO Space and Communications Segment

SCSI - Small Computer Software Interface

SD - South Dakota or Scan Direction

SDD - Software Design Document

SDF - Software Development File

SDLT - Super DLT

SDM - Silo Data Manager

SDP - Software Development Plan or Science Data Production

SDPS - Support Data Processing Subsystem

SDS - Scientific Data Set

SDU - Service Data Unit

SE - Systems Engineer

SEB - Source Evaluation Board

SED - Software Engineering Department

SEI - Software Engineering Institute

SelfDef - SelfDefining CMDA format

SEMP - Systems Engineering Management Plan

SEU - Single Event Upset - Anomaly Event

SEV - Severity or Sun-Earth-Vehicle angle

SGI - Silicon Graphics Incorporated

SGS - Svalbard Ground Station or Spitzbergen Ground Station

SHS - Second Half Scan

SHSERR - Second Half Scan Error

SI - Searchable Inventory or Space Imaging

SIG - Signaling

SIR - Scientific Investigations & Research

SITP - Software Integration Test Plan

SL - Scan Line

SLATE - System Level Automation Tool for Enterprises

SLD - Scan Line Data

SLL - Scan Line Length

SLO - Scan Line Offset

SLS - Scan Line Start

SM - Scan Mirror

SMA - S-Band Multiple Access

SME - Scan Mirror Electronics or Subject Matter Expert

SMP - Software Maintenance Plan

SN - Space Network

SNR - Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SO - Search and Order

SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture or Satellite Operator Agency

SOH - State of Health

SOM - Space Oblique Mercator

SON - Statement of Need

SOP - Standard Operating Procedure

SOW - Statement of Work

SPIM - SPOT Image

SPL - Software Project Lead

SPOC - Security Point of Contact

SPOT - Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (Satellite for Earth Observation)

SQL - Structured Query Language

SQRT - Square Root

sr - steradian

SRD - System Requirements Document

SRI - Standard Robot Interface

SRM - Silo Resource Manager

SRR - System Readiness Review

SRS - Software Requirements Specification or System Requirements Specification

SRTM - Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SRTM - Software Requirements Traceability Matrix or Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

SSA - S-Band Single Access

SSCL - Standard System Control List

SSD - Subsystem Design Document

SSPA - System Security Plan

SSPA - Solid State Power Amplifier

SSR - Solid State Recorder

ST - System Test

STC - System Test Case

STDEV - Standard Deviation

STDN - Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network

STESR - System Test Execution Summary Report

STF - System Transfer Function

STK - StorageTek

STP - System Test Plan

STR - System Test Report

SUM - Summary

SUN - Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SV - Space Vehicle

SVN - Sun-Vehicle-Normal angle

SW - Switch

SWIR - Short Wavelength Infrared

SZA - Solar Zenith Angle



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