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== Glossary == {{Div col|colwidth=30em|style=font-size:90%;}} * AACS: Attitude and Articulation Control Subsystem * ACS: Attitude Control Subsystem * AFC: AACS Flight Computer * ARWM: Articulated Reaction Wheel Mechanism * ASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the Italian space agency * BIU: Bus Interface Unit * BOL: Beginning of Life * CAM: Command Approval Meeting * CDS: Command and Data Subsystem—Cassini computer that commands and collects data from the instruments * CICLOPS: [http://ciclops.org/index.php Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501072219/http://ciclops.org/index.php |date=May 1, 2008 }} * CIMS: ''Cassini'' Information Management System * CIRS: Composite Infrared Spectrometer * DCSS: Descent Control Subsystem * DSCC: Deep Space Communications Center * DSN: Deep Space Network (large antennas around the Earth) * DTSTART: Dead Time Start * ELS: Electron Spectrometer (part of CAPS instrument) * EOM: End of Mission * ERT: Earth-received time, UTC of an event * ESA: European Space Agency * ESOC: European Space Operations Centre * FSW: flight software * HGA: [[High Gain Antenna]] * HMCS: ''Huygens'' Monitoring and Control System * HPOC: ''Huygens'' Probe Operations Center * IBS: Ion Beam Spectrometer (part of CAPS instrument) * IEB: Instrument Expanded Blocks (instrument command sequences) * IMS: Ion Mass Spectrometer (part of CAPS instrument) * ITL: Integrated Test Laboratory—spacecraft simulator * IVP: Inertial Vector Propagator * LGA: [[Low Gain Antenna]] * NAC: Narrow Angle Camera * NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the United States space agency * OTM: Orbit Trim Maneuver * PDRS: Probe Data Relay Subsystem * PHSS: Probe Harness SubSystem * POSW: Probe On-Board Software * PPS: Power and Pyrotechnic Subsystem * PRA: Probe Relay Antenna * PSA: Probe Support Avionics * PSIV: Preliminary Sequence Integration and Validation * PSE: probe support equipment * RCS: Reaction Control System * RFS: Radio Frequency Subsystem * RPX: ring plane crossing * RWA: Reaction Wheel Assembly * SCET: Spacecraft Event Time * SCR: sequence change requests * SKR: Saturn Kilometric Radiation * SOI: Saturn Orbit Insertion (July 1, 2004) * SOP: Science Operations Plan * SSPS: Solid State Power Switch * SSR: Solid State Recorder * SSUP: Science and Sequence Update Process * TLA: Thermal Louver Assemblies * USO: UltraStable Oscillator * VRHU: Variable Radioisotope Heater Units * WAC: Wide Angle Camera * XXM: Extended-Extended Mission {{Div col end}}
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