| COTS | Commercial-off-the-shelf |
| CubeSats | Cube satellites |
| LEO | Low earth orbit |
| TC | Thermal cycling |
| BAT | Battery |
| EXT | External |
| PCB | Printed circuit board |
| MB | Motherboard |
| FPGAs | Field-programmable gate arrays |
| GEO | Geostationary orbit |
| ICs | Integrated circuits |
| EM | Electromigration |
| TDDB | Time-dependent dielectric breakdown |
| SM | Stress migration |
| MTTF | Mean time to failure |
| RAMP | Reliability-aware microprocessor |
| NBTI | Negative bias temperature instability |
| SOFR | Sum-of-failure-rates |
| DPM | Dynamic power management |
| DVS | Dynamic voltage scaling |
| DTM | Dynamic thermal management |
| ECUs | Electronic control units |
| DVFS | Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling |
| EDF | Earliest-deadline-first |
| PWL | Piece-wise linear |
| WF | Worst-fit |