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8 APPENDIX C - ACRONYMS<br />

AAA Avionics Air Assembly<br />

ACS Attitude Control System<br />

AFC Alkaline Fuel Cell<br />

AIU Avionics Interface Unit<br />

AIV Assembly, Integration and Verification<br />

ALS Advanced Life Support<br />

APM Antenna Pointing Mechanism<br />

ARA Adavanced Rigid Arrays<br />

ATV Automatic Transfer Vehicle<br />

BCR Battery Charge Regulator<br />

BDR Battery Discharge Regulator<br />

BER Bit Error Rate<br />

BFO Blood Forming Organs<br />

CAD Computer Aided Design<br />

CAM Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre<br />

CDF Concurrent Design Facility<br />

CFC Chlorofluorocarbons<br />

CFU Colony Forming Units<br />

CHX Condensing Heat Exchanger<br />

CIS Copper Indium Diselenide<br />

CMG Control Moment Gyros<br />

COF Columbus Orbital Facility<br />

COP Coefficient of Performance<br />

CPL Capillary Pump Loop<br />

CPU Central Processing Unit<br />

CSS Coarse Sun Sensor<br />

CTV Crew Transportation Vehicle<br />

DAK Double Aluminized Kapton<br />

DAM Double Aluminized Mylar<br />

DCS Decompression Sickness<br />

DGK Double Goldenized Kapton<br />

DHS Data Handling System<br />

DLS Descent and Landing System<br />

DMM Distributed Memory Modules<br />

DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid<br />

DOR Delta Of Range<br />

DRS Dataq Relay Satellite<br />

DSM Deep Space Manoeuvre<br />

EAC European Astronaut Centre<br />

EAP Etage a Pondre<br />

ECU Electronic Control Units<br />

EDL Entry Descent and Landing<br />

EEE Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical<br />

EMU Extravehicular Mobility Unit<br />

EOI Earth Orbit Insertion<br />

HMM<br />

Assessment Study<br />

Report: CDF-20(A)<br />

February 2004<br />

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