ACTS

Advanced Communications Technology Satellite

AGC

Automatic Gain Control

ANL

Automatic Number Location

AIAA

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AKM

Apogee Kick Motor

AM

Amplitude Modulation

AMT

ACTS Mobile Terminal

APT

ACTS Propagation Terminal

APU

Auxiliary Power Unit

APW

ACTS Propagation Workshop

ARIES

ATM Research and Industrial Enterprise Study

ARPANET

Advanced Research Project Agency s Network

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATS

Application Technology Satellite

AWGN

Additive White Gaussian Noise

B

Billion

BBP

Base Band Processor

BER

Bit Error Rate

BFN

Beam Forming Network

B-ISDN

Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

BOL

Beginning of Life

Bps

Bits Per Second

BPSK

Binary Phase-Shift Keying

BSS

Broadcast Satellite Service

BTC

Budget to Completion

CATN

Common Antenna Television Network

CDR

Critical Design Review

CD-ROM

Compact Disk-Read Only Memory

CML

Current Mode Logic

CMDS

Commands

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CODEC

Coder-Decoder

CONUS

Continental United States

CPS

Customer-Premises Services

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CR&T

Command Ranging & Telemetry

CT

Computed Tomograghy

CTS

Communication Technology Satellite

CW

Continuous Wave

CWG

Carrier Working Group

CY

Calendar Year

DAMA

Demand Assigned Multiple Access

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

dB

Decibel

dBi

Decibel, Isotropic

DBS

Direct Broadcast Service

dBW

Decibel, Watt

DC

Direct Current

D/C

Downconverter

DCU

Digital Control Unit

DCTN

Defense Communication Telecommunications Network

DOD

Department of Defense

DPSK

Differential Phase-Shift Keying

DTH

Direct to Home

Eb/No

Energy per bit per Noise Density

ECL

Emitter Coupled Logic

EDT

Eastern Daylight Time

EIA

Electronic Industries Association

EIRP

Effective Isotropic Radiated...