Astronautics Vocabulary
The Astronautics Vocabulary is a glossary of terms that pertain to the science and technology of spaceflight. This alphabetical list can be navigated by clicking on the letters A-Z displayed on this page.
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- Camera Light Pan & Tilt Assembly (CLPA)
- camera, light & pan/tilt unit ORU
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS)
- Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI)
- Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study (CANOPUS)
- Canadian MSS Training Facility (CMTF)
- Canadian Protein Crystallization Experiment (CAPE)
- Canadian Remote Power Controller Modules (CRPCM)
- Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
- Canadian Space Exploration Workshop (CSEW)
- Canadian Space Program (CSP)
- Canadian Target Assembly (CTA)
- capture bar
- capture claw
- cargo bay
- celestial body
- Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech)
- Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM)
- checkout system
- clean room
- coastal zone
- Cold Plasma Analyzer (CPA)
- command
- Commercial Float Zone Furnace (CFZF)
- Communications Research Centre (CRC)
- component
- composite colour image
- composite image
- control module
- cooling air
- cooling liquid pump
- cosmic velocity
- cosmonaut
- countdown
- coverage area
- crew
- critical design review (CDR)
- cross polarization
- CSA automation and robotics testbed (CART)
- Cupola
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