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    Acronyms & abbreviations - F

    F/D Flight Dynamics
    FAM Fine Acquisition Mode
    FAO Financial and Administrative Officer
    FAR Flight Acceptance Review
    Final Acceptance Review
    FAST Fundamental Astronomy by Space Techniques
    Facility for Adsorption and Surface Tension
    FAT Factory Acceptance Test
    File Allocation Table
    FCC Facility Control Computer
    FCE Flow Control Electronics
    Facility Core Element
    FCF Filing Configuration File
    FCL Fold-back Current Limiter
    FCM Fine-orbit Control Mode
    FCP Flight Control Procedure
    FCS Financial Control System
    FCT Flight Control Team
    FCU Facility Control Unit
    FDDI Fibre Distributed Data Interface
    FDIR Failure Detection, Isolation, and Recovery
    FDR Flight Dynamics Reports
    Flight Dynamics Room
    FDS Flight Dynamics Support
    Flight Dynamics System
    Fire Detection and Suppression
    FDSP Fire Detection and Support Panel
    FDSS Flight Dynamics Support System
    FDV Fill and Drain Valve
    FEANICS Flow Enclosure Accommodating Novel Investigations in Combustion of Solids
    FEB Financial Evaluation Board
    FEC Front End Controller
    FEE Front End Electronics
    FEEP Field Emission Electrical Propulsion
    FEP Flap Event Packet
    Front End Processor
    FDIR Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery
    FFP Firm Fixed Price
    FGB Functional Cargo Block
    FHC First Hot Countdown
    FI Furnace Insert
    FICT Filing Configuration Table
    FM Flight Model
    Facility Management
    FMC Front Mounted Camera
    FMECA Failure Mode Effect and Criticality Analysis
    FMF Floating zone furnace with Magnetic Field
    FMMP Facility Management and Maintenance Plan
    FMT Fade Measurement Techniques
    FOAM aqueous foams experiment
    FOP Facility Operations Plan
    FOS Flight Operations Segment
    FoV Field of View
    FP Final Presentation
    FPA Focal Plane Assembly
    FPEF Fluid Physics Experiment Facility [NASA]
    FPU Focal Plane Unit
    FRAM  Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism
    Ferroelectric Random Access Memory
    FRC Facility Responsible Centre
    FRR Flight Readiness Review
    FRS Financial Reporting System
    FSA Federal Space Agency (or Roscosmos, former RKA)
    Florida Space Agency
    FSC Facility Support Computer (IMPACT part)
    FSE  Flight Support Equipment
    FSMM Full Scale Mass Mock-up
    FSL Fluid Science Laboratory (multi-user facility)
    FSP Facility Service Panel (EPM part)
    FST Facility Science Team
    FTIR Fourier Transform InfraRed spectroscope
    FTP  File Transfer Protocol
    FU Flight Unit
    FY Fiscal Year

    Last update: 7 November 2008

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