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Wet dress rehearsal likely in the next few days. Hopefully launch soon after?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

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

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    BE-4 Blue Engine 4 methalox rocket engine, developed by Blue Origin (2018), 2400kN
    ETOV Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)
    HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
    LV Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV
    Jargon Definition
    Raptor Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX
    methalox Portmanteau: methane fuel, liquid oxygen oxidizer

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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