Commonly used acronyms

[Mjp1050]

OP: Original Post.

I remember being confused for months when someone would tell me to refer to the OP, but I had no idea what the OP was!

Not to be confused with OPM: Outer Planets Mod.

Edited June 20, 2016 by Mjp1050

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

This is great!  Here's a couple (many stolen from http://www.decronym.xyz/) 

• AFB (air force base)
• AGL (Above Ground Level)
• ASL (Above Sea Level)
• AOS (Aerojet Rocketdyne)
• ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission)
• ASDS (SpaceX Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship)
• F9 (SpaceX Falcon 9)
• F9H (SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy)
• MECO (Main Engine Cut-Off)
• EDL (Entry, Descent, Landing)
• ESA (European Space Agency)
• ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
• Isp (Specific Impulse)
• ISRU (In-Situ Resource Utilization)
• KSC (Kerbal Space Center)
• LES (Launch Escape System)
• LH2 (Liquid Hydrogen)
• LOX (Liquid Oxygen)
• NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application)
• NTR (Nuclear Thermal Rocket)
• SOI (Sphere Of Influence)
• STS (Space Shuttle)
• TVC (Thrust Vector Control)
• TWR (Thrust to Weight Ratio)
• LOS (Loss Of Signal)
• SRB (Solid Rocket Booster)
• LRB (Liquid Rocket Booster)
• TLA (Three Letter Acronym)
• x64 (64 bit operation system/program)
• x86, x32 (32 bit operating system program)
•  m/s (Meters per Second)
• km/s (Kilometers per second)
• CTD (Crash To Desktop)
• BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)
• SAS (Stability Enhancement System)
• ASAS (Advanced Stability Enhancement System)
• CKAN (Comprehensive Kerbal Archive Network)

That's all I think think of/steal right now.

Oh, and OPM (outer Planets Mod)

Edited June 20, 2016 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[linuxgurugamer]

8 hours ago, federicoaa said:

RUD rapid unplanned disassembly

If you want to include famous mods then add
MJ
KAC
FAR
USI
KIS
EVE
RO

Add:  EEX

8 hours ago, KasperVld said:

added COD. I don't think KSP needs explanation

Cash On Delivery?

[KasperVld]

Added a number of new ones based on the suggestions. Keep them coming!

 

[Matuchkin]

Houston, we are ODEFSCTWPKUA (Our Damn Engineers Forgot Something Crucial That Will Probably Kill Us All)

Common situation, gotta have an acronym for that.

[Bran31]

7 hours ago, worir4 said:

SoI

In space travel, a Sol and SOL are very different things  

KSP-AVC might be one to add though.

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

8 minutes ago, Bran31 said:

In space travel, a Sol and SOL are very different things  

KSP-AVC might be one to add though.

In the default font, capital "i" and lowercase "L" are the same: "l" "I"

Also:

KOS (Kerbal Operating System)

RP-0 

FASA

SXT (Stock eXTension)

VSR (Ven's Stock Revamp)

RPM (Raster Prop Monitor)

KCT (Kerbal Construction Time)

KF (Kerbal Foundries)

IR (Infernal Robotics)

 

[NoMrBond]

11 hours ago, KasperVld said:

added COD. I don't think KSP needs explanation

Kerbal Space Station right?

(ノಠ_ಠ)ノ            (■_■¬)

 

[Eskandare]

STOL (Short Takeoff or Landing)

KU (Kerbin Units  [Kerbal version of AU])

EHI (Eskandare Heavy Industries)

TnT (Thermonuclear Turbines)

KRS (Kerbal Rotor Systems)

 

Edited June 20, 2016 by Eskandare

[Drew Kerman]

6 hours ago, Mjp1050 said:

OP: Original Post.

I remember being confused for months when someone would tell me to refer to the OP, but I had no idea what the OP was!

Not to be confused with OPM: Outer Planets Mod.

But can be confused with Over Powered, another common use for the acronym around here

Example

 

Edited June 21, 2016 by Gaiiden

[Snark]

Not to be a wet blanket, but... is there any UI option for turning the highlighting off?

I'm sure it's a great, very convenient tool for folks who are new to the forum. But since I already know what they mean, they don't add value for me-- and I find the highlighting incredibly intrusive and distracting when I'm trying to read.

Would really love to have a way of turning it off.

[ferram4]

Likewise, it's kind of annoying.  And for some reason, it puts FAR as Ferram Aeronautics Research when it's Ferram Aerospace Research, which kind of points towards a minor issue with this: it can be wrong.  Also, should anyone want to talk about Federal Aviation Regulations (for example, FAR Part 25, specifying regulations for designing aircraft for safe landings, kind of relevant maybe if people want to get all realistic aviation) will get the wrong acronym.  It needs some means to determine context.

[genericeventhandler]

LfOx  - Liquid Fuel and Oxidiser

kOS - Kerbal operating system

KRPC - Kerbal remote procedure (al?) calls

the real fuels and karbonite fuels.

chemicals

H2, He, Ar  etc.

 

[Red Iron Crown]

The center of mass one is getting false positives on a ton of urls, e.g. google.com.

[NecroBones]

 

I'll also suggest the abbreviations for some of my mods:

 

CCC: Color Coded Canisters

FTP: Fuel Tanks Plus (though of course this collides with File Transfer Protocol)

MRS: Modular Rocket Systems

RSB: Real Scale Boosters

 

[adsii1970]

One I had to Bing to figure out was CoL and CoT. It was in a private message from a moderator that I learned what they meant.

 

[NecroBones]

17 hours ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

This is great!  Here's a couple (many stolen from http://www.decronym.xyz/) 

 

Great list!

 

Here are a few more NASA-related ones, off the top of my head:

 

OMS: Orbital Maneuvering System (usually pronounced like "ohms")

MOCR: Mission Operations Control Room

RTLS: Return To Launch Site

TDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

 

 

 

[HafCoJoe]

R.O.U.S.'s?

Rodents Rockets Of Unusual Size?

[Trann]

Would it be out of place to ask for Δv to also be mapped to dV?

 

Then again, does anyone actually use Δv?

[Gojira1000]

I approve of this - even though it is a bit hard on the eyes.

For those starting out, "My Mun FRT was borked because I didn't bother to check my CoM/CoT after losing the LFO tanks and I wound up out of dV in LKO" could be a bit arcane.

[Robotengineer]

BFR - Big 'Falcon' Rocket (SpaceX's booster for the MCT)

MCT - Mars Colonial Transporter

RO - Realism Overhaul

RF - Real Fuels

Planet neutral orbit 

GO - Geosynchronous orbit

LO - Low Orbit

MO - Medium Orbit

HO - High Orbit

1 hour ago, Trann said:

Then again, does anyone actually use Δv?

I ∆o. ∆v is really the real way of saying it, dv is just a contraction. 

 

1 hour ago, Gojira1000 said:

My Mun FRT was borked because I didn't bother to check my CoM/CoT after losing the LFO tanks and I wound up out of dV in LKO

Everything but FRT is easily understandable. All of those are used frequently, while people rarely talk about free return trajectories (at lest in the parts of the forum I frequent).

Edit: also F9 (Falcon 9).

Edited June 21, 2016 by Robotengineer

[kBob]

rl = real life

deg to ° (ok understandable but the symbol looks better )

I assume you can do it case-less I probably type dv and dV sometimes.

 

[rgr]

FOD - Foreign Object Damage

RT - Remote Tech (mod)

F5 - ... F5 (for safety)

MAL - Minimum Ambient Lighting (mod)

ALA - Ambient Lighting Adjustment (mod)

CTT - Community Tech Tree (mod)

DRE - Deadly Re-entry (mod)

FF - Final Frontier (mod)

KJR - Kerbal Joint Reinforcement (mod)

dCoM - dry CoM

fpm - feet per minute

DOA - Dead on Arrival

SECO - Second-stage Engine Cut-Off

sep - Separation

Edited June 22, 2016 by rgr

[rgr]

On 6/20/2016 at 9:44 PM, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

• LOS (Loss Of Signal)

Line-of-Sight being a strong contender

[rsparkyc]

Here's a post from @NathanKell that has a lot of acronyms that aren't listed: