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

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |FAA|Federal Aviation Administration| |GEO|Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)| |ICBM|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile| |LEO|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)| | |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)| |MEO|Medium Earth Orbit (2000-35780km)| |SSTO|Single Stage to Orbit| | |Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit| |USAF|United States Air Force|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |apogee|Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)|

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