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Galileo Acronyms

AU - astronomical units
B/U - backup
C/A - closest approach
deg - degrees
DMS - Data Memory Subsystem
DSN - Deep Space Network
Enc - Encounter
ERT - Earth Receive Time
EUV - Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer
F&P - Fields and Particles instruments
km - kilometers
km/s - kilometers per second
min - minutes
N - North
NIMS - Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
obs - observation
OD - orbit determination
OPNAV - Optical Navigation
OTM - orbit trim maneuver
OWLT - one-way light time
PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
PST - Pacific Standard Time
PPR - Photopolarimeter Radiometer
PWS - Plasma Wave Subsystem
Rj - Jupiter radii (71492 km)
RS - Radio Science
S/C - spacecraft
SCET - spacecraft event time
SSI - Solid-State Imaging (camera)
TRM - Transmission Time
TWK - tweak
U/L - Uplink
UTC - Universal TIme Coordinated
UVS - Ultraviolet Spectrometer
VGR1 - Voyager 1
VGR2 - Voyager 2

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