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

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ASAT|Anti-Satellite weapon| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |SSO|Sun-Synchronous Orbit| |USAF|United States Air Force| |VLEO|V-band constellation in LEO| | |Very Low Earth Orbit|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Starlink|SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation| |perigee|Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)|

^(7 acronyms in this thread; )^(the most compressed thread commented on today)^( has 33 acronyms.)
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