Spying from Space: Constructing America's Satellite Command and Control Systems

Glossary of Acronyms

Glossary of Acronyms 169 AAF Army Air Forces ABMA Army Ballistic Missile Agency AFB Air Force Base AFBMD Air Force Ballistic Missile Division AFHRA Air Force Historical Research Agency AFSC Air Force Systems Command AFSCF Air Force Satellite Control Facility AFSCN Air Force Satellite Control Network AFSPC/HO Air Force Space Command History Office AMC Air Materiel Command ANNE Annette Island, Alaska, tracking station, call sign AOC Assistant Operations Controller AP Advance Projects Facility (a division of Lockheed) APL Advanced Projects Laboratory (a division of Johns Hopkins University) ARDC Air Research and Development Command ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ARS Advanced Reconnaissance Satellite (also called Corona, Pied Piper, or WS-117L) ARSIC Advanced Reconnaissance Satellite Intelligence Center BMD Ballistic Missile Division BMEWS Ballistic Missile Early Warning System BOSS New Boston, New Hampshire, tracking station, call sign BuAer U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics C2 Command and Control CDC Control Data Corporation CIA Central Intelligence Agency COMOR Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance COOK Vandenberg (previously Cooke) Air Force Base, California, tracking station, call sign Corona Covert name for the reconnaissance satellite program run by the CIA and the NRO (also called Pied Piper or WS-117L) CSOC Consolidated Space Operations Center DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DCA Defense Communications Agency DCI Director of Central Intelligence DCS Deputy Chief of Staff DDR&E Director of Defense Research and Engineering DGS Diego Garcia tracking station, British Indian Ocean territory DICE Satellite Test Center, Sunnyvale Air Force Station, California, call sign Discoverer Biomedical cover story for the covert reconnaissance satellite program (also called Corona, Pied Piper, and WS-117L) DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DNRO Director of the National Reconnaissance Office DoD Department of Defense DSCS Defense Communications Agency Satellite Communications System DSP Defense Support Program DTIC Defense Technical Information Center EHF Extremely High Frequency ETR Eastern Test Range FY Fiscal Year GAO General Accounting Office GPS Global Positioning System GTS Guam tracking station, Guam GUAM Guam tracking station, Guam, call sign HTS Hawaii tracking station, Kaena Point, Hawaii HULA Hawaii tracking station, call sign ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile IGY International Geophysical Year INDI Indian Ocean tracking station, Mahe, Seychelles, call sign IOS Indian Ocean tracking station, Mahe, Seychelles IRBM Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory KHz Kilohertz KODI Kodiak, Alaska, tracking station, call sign KTS Kodiak, Alaska, tracking station MHz Megahertz MIDAS Missile Detection and Alarm System MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOUSE Minimum Orbital Unmanned Satellite of the Earth MRBM Medium Range Ballistic Missile 170 G L O S S A R Y O F A C R O N Y M S MSAP Multiple Satellite Augmentation Program NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NATO North American Treaty Organization NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command NPIC National Photo Interpretation Center NRD National Range Division NRL Naval Research Laboratory NRO National Reconnaissance Office NRP National Reconnaissance Program NSA National Security Agency NSC National Security Council OC Operations Controller OL Operating Location OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense PICE Programmable Integrated Communications Equipment Pied Piper Program name for the Advanced Reconnaissance Satellite (also called ARS, Corona, and WS-117L) POGO Thule tracking station, Greenland, call sign PRELORT Precision Long Range Tracking Radar R&D Research and Development RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging RAND Rand Corporation, originally the Research and Development group of Douglas Aircraft Corporation REEF Diego Garcia tracking station, British Indian Ocean territory, call sign RTS Remote Tracking Station SAC Strategic Air Command Samos Name of the former SENTRY satellite program, but not an acronym SAMSO Space and Missile Systems Organization SCF Satellite Control Facility SD Space Division SE/TD Systems Engineering and Technical Direction SGLS Space-Ground Link Subsystem SHF Super High Frequency SLBM Sea-Launched Ballistic Missile SSD Space Systems Division STC Satellite Test Center STL Space Technology Laboratories (a division of Philco) G L O S S A R Y O F A C R O N Y M S 171 TIROS Television and Infrared Observing Satellite TOO Technical Operations Order TRW Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Inc. TT&C Telemetry, Tracking, and Control TTS Thule tracking station, Greenland UHF Ultra High Frequency USAF United States Air Force VERLORT Very Long Range Tracking Radar VHF Very High Frequency WADC Wright Air Development Center, Ohio WDD Western Development Division WDL Western Development Laboratories (a division of TRW) WS Weapon System WS-117L Advanced Reconnaissance Satellite (also called Corona...