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ESA acronyms

QML

Qualified Manufacturers List

QPL

(ESCC) Qualified Parts List

QPL

Qualified Product List

QR

Qualification Review

RC

Return Coefficient

RF

Research Fellow

RF

Radio Frequency

RHU

Radioisotope Heater Units

ROSA

Romanian Space Agency / Agenţia Spaţialǎ Românǎ - Romania

RPA

Requesting Party Activities

RT(P)

Room Temperature (and Pressure)

RTEMS

Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems

RTG (or RITEG)

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

RTOS

Real Time Operating System

S2P

Space Safety Programme

SAR

Synthetic Apature Rader (ocassionally Search And Rescue)

SAT-AIS

(ARTES) Satellite Automatic Identification System

SAVOIR

Space AVionics Open Interface aRchitecture

SBAS

Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems

SC (or S/C)

SpaceCraft