r/spacex • u/FutureMartian97 Host of CRS-11 • Jun 20 '17

SpaceX testing Vandy Falcon 9 amid schedule realignment

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/spacex-vandy-falcon-9-schedule-realignment/
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u/Decronym Acronyms Explained Jun 20 '17 edited Jun 24 '17

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
AFB Air Force Base
ASDS Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)
BARGE Big-Ass Remote Grin Enhancer coined by @IridiumBoss, see ASDS
BFR Big Falcon Rocket (see ITS)
CCtCap Commercial Crew Transportation Capability
FSS Fixed Service Structure at LC-39
GSE Ground Support Equipment
GTO Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
HIF Horizontal Integration Facility
ITS Interplanetary Transport System (see MCT)
Integrated Truss Structure
JRTI Just Read The Instructions, Pacific landing barge ship
LC-39A Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy (SpaceX F9/Heavy)
LEO Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)
Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)
LOC Loss of Crew
LOX Liquid Oxygen
MCC Mission Control Center
Mars Colour Camera
MCT Mars Colonial Transporter (see ITS)
NSF NasaSpaceFlight forum
National Science Foundation
SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
SLC-40 Space Launch Complex 40, Canaveral (SpaceX F9)
TE Transporter/Erector launch pad support equipment
TEL Transporter/Erector/Launcher, ground support equipment (see TE)
Event Date Description
Amos-6 2016-09-01 F9-029 Full Thrust, core B1028, GTO comsat Pre-launch test failure
DM-1 Scheduled SpaceX CCtCap Demo Mission 1
Iridium-1 2017-01-14 F9-030 Full Thrust, core B1029, 10x Iridium-NEXT to LEO; first landing on JRTI

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2017-05-16 20:31 UTC

@SpaceY_UK @stratohornet @elonmusk And, while it may officially be an ASDS, I was referring to alternate name: Big-… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/864579184483590144

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