Glossary

full catalog, sent from SPADOC (similar to CAVENet's daft)

Assured compliance assessment solution (DISA network security)

Automatic Catalog Correction

Attitude Control System, which is a subsystem that calculates the SV's whereabouts and positioning.

Automatic differential correction

Advanced Extreme High Frequency

Air Force Base

Air Force Space Command

area gamma over mass; radiation pressure

ASW message interface to CPS.

Army/Navy Transportable Radar

area over flight (AS s/w computes potential ground visibility to overhead sats)

Area of Responsibility

Acquisition of Signal (or Satellite). AOS is the time that a satellite rises above the horizon of an observer.

associated observations

Agile Release Train

astrodynamics standards (AFSPC suite of JSpOC-compatible astro algorithms)

Anti-satellite weapons

alternative space control center (former name of DSC2-D)

Authoritative Source of Truth

automatic satellite propagation (creates ephemeris)

Association Status (0-4), residuals for each observation in the pass are evaluated against preconfigured association thresholds and multipliers representing established Association Status. Passes achieving ASTAT 0 or 1 are considered verified. Passes achieving ASTAT 2, 3, or 4 are “detagged” by the system and sent to retag processing.

astrodynamics support workstation (generates eGP TLEs and VCMs); Suite of GUI applications to support SP Catalog Maintenance, Conjunction Assessment, Catalog Metrics, and Sensor Calibration; Omitron legacy COTS product at CSpOC

Applied Technology Lab, a physical lab & industry group

Advanced Tracking Launch Analysis System

authority to proceed

Absolute Time Sequence

alarm warning and events (NDPP screen)

Antenna as a Service

A navigational device which presents a hierarchical set of items in which only a single branch of that hierarchy is exposed at one time.

Adaptive Linear Element (algorithm for maneuver detection/processing)

Message with a severity and category that is triggered when a mnemonic passes a threshold value

farthest point an object in orbit reaches from Earth (closest point is Perigee)

A tag on the Global Status Bar that presents what state the application is in, such as Production, Review, or Testing.

Drag ballistic coefficient

budget at completion

Breakup Analysis Module (AS app, finds time/location of satellite breakup)

baseline change request

budgeted cost of work performed

budgeted cost of work scheduled

battle damage assessment

Bottom Line Up Front

ballistic missile command and control

Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications

ballistic missile early warning system

Business Owner

basis of estimate

bill of material

BMEWS and Pave Paws

battle space analyst (OA at the NSDC)

SGP4-type drag coefficient

Business value

batch DC (AS app that performs least squares batch DCs using SSN obs)

Brigadier General

Identify and flag classified data

A Button allows users to trigger actions by clicking, tapping, or pressing a corresponding key on a keyboard, such as “Enter.”

command and control

command and control

Conjunction Assessment

Classification Authority Block; the text block that explains the origins and rules for the classified information within a document

Common Access Card

Conjunction Assessment Duty Technician

cost account lead

(As in Space Camp) Commercially Augmented Mission Platform

Controlled Access Program Coordination Office

Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis

Correlation, Analysis, and Verification of Ephemerides Network; SGI-based computer network

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives

Crew Commander

combat capability assessment system, outputs scheduled sensor downtime

Command and Control System – Consolidated

consultative committee for space data services

Conjunction Data Message

Commander

contract/customer data requirements list

Common Framework Environment (Dahlgren)

Command Line Interface

contract line item number

Cheyenne Mountain Air Station

Command/s

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification

Capabilities Needs Statements

Course of Action

co-planar comparison (AS app that compares TLEs to find co-planar orbits)

catalog orbit determination accuracy

Launch Collision Avoidance

computation of miss between orbits

Communications Security

Concept of Operations

Captain

A Checkbox allows a user to select a value from a small set of options.

Markings required to be present on software that includes controlled or classified information.

Clock shows the current date and time, and optional AOS and LOS timers.

communications infrastructure

Colonel

The list of color values used in and approved by the Astro design system.

Communications

A list of rules used to determine if products align with Astro design and usage patterns.

A sketch on paper that lays out the main content workspace and controls and clarifies the flow of user interaction from screen-to-screen.

Collision Risk

Period in which a spacecraft is able to be in contact with a ground system

denied, degraded and disrupted space operating environment

data access

data accession list

Database State

Differential Correction; techniques for improving GPS positioning accuracy

dynamic calibration atmosphere

differential correction ephemeris

DSC2 Common Framework

Deputy Chief Information Officer

dynamic consider parameter

decay report or a command initiating a decay report

Designation Indicator; the text block that explains origins and rules for CUI within a document

Defense Information Systems Agency

Defense Information Systems Network

dynamic LUPI algorithm

Do Not Process

Domain Name System

Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System

Director of Operational Test and Evaluation

Day of Year

Data Reduction and Analysis

Discrepancy Review Board

deep space

distributed space command and control at Dahlgren

Distributed Systems Integration Laboratories

Developer Experience

The goal of Data Visualization is to make complex information accessible and easy to digest in a visual manner.

Degree/s

Symbol for change

Capability for a satellite to maneuver in orbit

A pairing of the same code and visual properties in a format that is deployable across all platforms, acting as a single source of truth for both designers and developers.

A Dialog interrupts app processing to prompt a user to confirm an action or acknowledge a piece of information. It displays information along with a set of buttons allowing users to accept or cancel the actions presented within the Dialog.

Demonstration of Capabilities

Department of Defense

Department of State

revised budget based on BAC and VAC

earth-centered inertial reference frame

Engineering change proposal

energy dissipation rate

extrapolated general perturbations

error growth rate

TLE comparison app

Element set

application on CAVENet

Enterprise Messaging & Adapters

Emergency Notification System

special data type for predefined constants

Element Quality

Engineering Review Board

European Space Agency

Enterprise Space Battle Management Command & Control

enhanced surveillance operations

estimated cost to completion

ephemeris validation environment

early warning radar

Exclusive Distribution, DoS classification

predicted future location of a satellite

Field elements

Forced Motion Circumnavigation

Free and open source software

For Official Use Only, replaced by CUI

field of view

Formerly Restricted Data

Five Eyes intelligence alliance

A text field, input, or inputs which require interaction with the user to complete an action such as signing up for an account.

Geocentric Crossing Analysis

geosynchronous orbit

ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance

government-furnished equipment

Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center

Greenwich Mean Time

Guidance, Navigation and Control subsystem

Geosynchronous Orbital Belt Software

general perturbations

Ground Resource Management

Ground Resource Scheduling

Ground Systems Operator

geostationary SSA program

global sensor watch

General

Display top-level system and equipment status throughout Astro applications.

A full width view across the top of an application that displays the overall health and status of a system.

Customer Resource

A Grid system is a defined set of vertical columns and optionally horizontal rows based on time-tested principles of graphic design and layout.

high accuracy catalog

high area to mass ratio

high accuracy satellite drag model

hard body radius (same as radius of exclusion volume)

host-based security system (DoD COTS security software)

highly elliptical orbit

high interest event tracker

high interest object

high interest tasking

Hardened Operating System

Human Safety Analyst; aka OSA (newer)

human space flight

operator manually enters data

Highly Eccentric orbit (e.g., Molniya orbit)

Inspect & Adapt (Agile Program Increment terminology)

Innovation & Planning (Agile Program Increment terminology)

Indications and Warnings

interface control document

install, checkout and evaluation

DoD Impact Level; combination of data sensitivity and potential impact

DoD Impact Level 2, accommodates DoD information approved for public release

DoD Impact Level 4, accommodates DoD Controlled Unclassified Information

DoD Impact Level 5, accommodates DoD CUI & National Security Systems

DoD Impact Level 6, accommodates DoD Classified Information up to SECRET

Integrated Mission Operations Control Center

improved object detection

initial orbit determination

Integrated Operations Environment

initial orbit determination module

In Progress Review

Initial Qualification Training

Internal Research and Development

infrared cloud imager

Inter-Range Operating Number

International Space Station

integrated space situational awareness

Information Support Server Environment

command to display tasking groups

Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment

A graphic representation to convey meaning in a concise, visual manner.

Identified Catalog Services, used to query a catalog for specific entity classes like satellites.

A type of field that allows users to enter text or numeric data.

Joint Functional Component Command

Agile project management software

JSpOC Mission System

JMS - High Interest Event Tracker

Joint Operator in the Loop

Joint Space Operational Command

Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System

Key Decision Points

Lean Agile Center of Excellence

launch and early orbit anomaly resolution and disposal operations

look angle module

Limited Dissemination Control Marking

low Earth orbit

linear frequency modulation

level of effort

Loss of Signal

Lean Portfolio Management

length of update interval

A link (also known as a hyperlink) is a clickable text element. The link control is used for navigation, but can also trigger an event.

A tabular representation of application events and may include username, priority, equipment type, signal type, etc.

Lieutenant

Lieutenant Colonel

Lieutenant General

mission adaptive environment for spacecraft test and real-time operations

Major Command

Mission Area Teams

Model Based Systems Engineering

missile defense

manual differential correction

Mega Constellation Analysis

mean equator, mean equinox

Medium Earth Orbit

Maintenance Group

Mission Integration Enclave

government mandated service

maneuver in progress

Mission Operation Center

Measure of Merit

Moron optical space surveillance

mission processing system

management reserve

milestone

missile warning

Major

Major General

Manual Differential Correction

Tracks (obs), taskings, elsets.

Single value that can be monitored

A visual pattern used to present temporary interactions inline and does not require user action before moving to another area of the page.

maintenance

maintenance

Numbered Air Force

Network Administration Operator

National Archives and Records Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Nuclear Command and Control system

Non-Commissioned Officer

Normal Decay

nontraditional data pre-processor

National Defense Space Architecture

near-Earth

abbreviated version of NOFORN

new foreign launch

Next Gen Geo

Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network

National Institute of Standards and Technology

No later than

Natural Motion Circumnavigation

normal, i.e., normal decay

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Classification marking caveat

North American Aerospace Defense Command

network ops service

National Reconnaissance Office

National Space Defense Center

Navigation defines how the user moves through the application and establishes their mental model of the object hierarchy.

Divide major areas of content and to indicate a work process.

Events that deserve user attention, but don’t require a response, may be displayed in a Notification Banner. The Banner displays within the user’s field-of-view, but doesn’t block other interaction.

A system which generates, prioritizes, and displays event notifications for significant occurrences within an application and its associated systems and hardware.

orbital analysis or orbital analyst

Orbital Conjunction Message

Office of Contributory Responsibility

orbit determination

orbit determination ephemeris

orbit determination interval

Orbital Data Requests

Orbital Ephemeris Message

On the Job Training

Operating Location Alpha

observation maintenance request

office of naval research

Overhead Persistent Infrared

Orbital Safety Analyst

Operational Test & Evaluation

Other Transaction Authority

Ops Tasking List

observation(s)

Operations

perimeter acquisition radar attack characterization system

Perimeter Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System

probability of collision

position of closest approach

Pegasus debris

program evaluation and review technique

Program Increment

Program Management Office

Position, Navigation, and Timing

partially associated observations

Point of Contact

Period of Performance

pre-planned launch

Polar Space Launch Vehicle debris

Payload System Operator

The process of dividing content for display on multiple pages. It is utilized when content, such as Search results, does not fit onto one page and must be split across multiple pages.

closest point an object in orbit reaches to Earth

amount of time to complete an orbit

Rotation around the side-to-side axis

A Pop Up Menu provides users with a quick way to access common actions for a highlighted item.

A Progress Indicator signals that an application is busy performing an operation.

A control that initiates an action.

quantifiable backup data

average radial vector

Rocket Body

Rapid Resilience Control and Command

reentry assessment

right ascension of the ascending node

the right ascension of the ascending node

Residual Analysis and Visualization Environment

Rapid Capabilities Office

Radar Cross Section

Restricted Data

requirements definition, analysis and modeling

Research and Development Space and Missile Operations

Radio Frequency

Recommended Improvement Areas

Coordinate frame for spacecraft: Radial, In-track, Cross-track directions

Risk Management Framework

Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated

Reference Orbit Builder

Report Observation Tag and Association Status

Rendezvous Proximity Operations

RDT&E Support Complex

Resident Space Object

Release Train Engineer

Allows users to mutually select an option from a predefined set of options. When one selection is made, the previous selection becomes deselected.

referring to

Research is an essential process to a project’s success. It reveals, clarifies, and establishes the foundation on which the application resides.

revolution

Rotation around the front-to-back axis

Receive

Secret classification level

situational awareness

standardized astrodynamics algorithm library

satellite attack assessment

space analysis cell

Scaled Agile Framework

Special Access Program Facilities

see SatCat

satellite communications

satellite operations

satellite reconnaissance advanced notification

Space Based Infrared System

Service Catalog Board

satellite catalog number

Security Classification Guide

Sensitive Compartmented Information

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility

satellite catalog maintenance

Space Console Operator

satellite catalog renumbering working group

Space Domain Awareness

software-defined radio

supplier data requirements list

space data server

System Engineering / Architecture

System Engineering and Sustainment Integrator

space enterprise vision

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

simplified general perturbations

Special General Perturbations Ephemeris

Space Ground System Solutions

super high interest object

Systems Integration Lab

Secret Internet Protocol Routing Network

single integrated space picture

Strategic Knowledge Integration Web

sensor look angles

satellite laser ranging

Space & Missile Systems Center

Subject Matter Expert

Space Mission Force

Senior Non-Commissioned Officer

Satellite Operations Center

State of Health

space object identification

special perturbations

Space Catalog

Space Defense Operations Center

Space Situational Awareness

Spaces Systems Command

Space Surveillance Network

space surveillance telescope

Space Tasking Order

Space Vehicle

Space War-fighting Construct

Spacecraft

file of all TLEs

satellite

satellite catalog

A specialized text field for entering search terms.

Allows users to select one item at a time from two to four options.

A UI control that allows users to select a value from a list of values.

A form input in which a user enters authenticating information to gain access to specific information or usage of an application.

simulation

A graphical control element that allows users to choose from a range of continuous and discrete values.

Indicates the state of a device or feature in a standard and consistent way using color, shapes, labeling, and badging.

A combination of colors and symbols to convey the status of a system.

A Switch which describes a state or value. It allows users to change a setting between two states such as “On" and "Off."

A graphical representation or glyph associated with actions, concepts, or objects such as an asterisk.

Telemetry & Command

Time of Closest Approach

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite

Temporary Additional Duty

time, elevation, azimuth, range, range-rate

technical exchange meeting

true equator, mean equinox

Test and Evaluation Services

test & integration lab

Tracking and Impact Prediction

two-line element

Telemetry

Technical Order

test objective worksheet

Tiered ROTAS Association with Covariance Knowledge

Top Secret classification level

The system shall

Tracking, Telemetry & Command

Training, Testing and Exercises

A UX design mechanism comprised of rows and columns used for displaying content.

Tabs in Astro Applications are used to divide major areas of content and to indicate work process.

Small markers which often use color to identify important information at a glance, as well as filter and categorize items by keywords.

satellite status data

A preset set of colors applied as a group to the design system.

Displays event information within a specified time period.

A list box that displays the hierarchical relationship among the objects in the list.

Transmit

The font and text settings that Astro uses across the design system.

Unclassified or Uncontrolled Unclassified Information

Upcoming Contacts Allocated

uncatalogued near space object

uncorrelated track/target

Unified Data Library

urgent depot-level maintenance

user defined operational picture

updated early warning radar

uncorrelated/unassociated observation

United States Air Force

United States Strategic Command

Coordinated Universal Time

Uncontrolled Unclassified Information

Ensures that data is properly entered into an Input Field or Form. It alerts users to data errors, required input, and prompts them to make corrections.

A page schematic or screen blueprint that represents the skeletal framework of a Web page or Web site.