Iridium sat comms module comp goes completely TITSUP

Inventive readers still have until 5pm UK time on Friday to brew up a suitably inspired acronym/backronym for our forthcoming final Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) test flight, and the best suggestion will earn its creator a spanking-new RockBLOCK Mk2 Iridium satellite comms unit, courtesy of our mates at Rock Seven …

[John Brown (no body)]

an unhealthy number of smutronyms

So what's a healthy number? More? Many more? Loads more?

There's obviously not enough anyway.

[JonP]

Iridium

Device for

LOHAN

Expedition

Heating,

Avionics &

Navigation

Demonstration

Sortie

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm gonna burn in Hull for this..

Ground-Orbit Avionics Test Suite Experiment

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

Flap

Flight,

Landing

And

Party

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

ha

Altitude

Measurement

And

Near-orbit

Flight,

Revealing

Orbital

Machine

Management

And

Re entry

Suitability

[Martin Budden]

Re: ha

But that makes sense!

(upvoted anyway)

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

hmmm

Sun Emitting Xray Radiation On Micro Processor Doesn't Alter Yaw

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

we know how it ends

Fully Interactive Recovery Ensures Brilliant And Lovely Landing

[The Vociferous Time Waster]

remember her?

Assisted Stage Up-goer System Generically Issued Rubric LOHAN

https://xkcd.com/1133/ for reference

[Mark 85]

May be time for a workaround?

I do believe that you need to have a fully-loaded "static" balloon test. Hang the payload with rocket motor, inflate balloon to test. If/when the tether line "breaks", carry on the mission.

I'm shocked the LOHAN team hasn't given any thought to what the BOFH would do.

[Anonymous C0ward]

Controlled Orbital Kinetic Experiment

[Captain DaFt]

A couple:

FAN-BOI: Final Altitude Navigation - Bundled Operations Inspection

COFFEEBREAK: Can Our Fearless Flyer Ever Effectively Be Reckoned Excellently Approved Kit?

[Osgard Leach]

Operation STRUMPET. Somehow.

Er...

Satellite Telemetry Radio Up-link, Mission-Profile Engineering Test.

There, brilliant. Good luck.

[the spectacularly refined chap]

Onboard Radio Gear Assessed for Space Mission.

Yes, I've already entered but I had a moment of inspiration.

[Anonymous Coward]

Satellite Link Usability Test

(Stand Lawyers Under Thrusters)

Main Altitude Jettisoning Operational Readiness Test Officially Mandated

(Hey, it's talking to ground control. Or should be)

[bpfh]

Some acronyms...

- Total Integrated Test Sortie: TITS

- Goal: Total Flight Operations : GTFO

- Airborne Integrated Research Boffins Awaiting General Service: AIRBAGS

- General Operational Airborn Test Required Of Plane Experiment: GOATROPE

- Last Obital Validation Experiment Airborne Diagnostic Check Kickoff : LOVEADUCK

- British Orbiter Final Flight InspectioN: BOFFIN

- Progress In New Technology Global Last Airborne Systems Study: PINTGLASS

- Working Aviation Research Measurements By Evaluating Experimental Requirements: WARMBEER

[Anonymous C0ward]

Directing a

Rocket

Up from

Ground into

Space?

[Ulaavi]

FIT4LOHAN

Final Instrumentation Testing for Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator

[Barely registers]

FFS

It's the acronym for Final Flight Shakedown, FFS.

[Barely registers]

STIFFY

Stratospheric Test Indicating Fit to Fly, Yes?

[Barely registers]

SPB HEROES

Spanish Petty Bureaucracy Hinders Exciting Research - Organise Experiments Stateside

[SecretSonOfHG]

Hangover

Helium

Assisted

Navigator

Going

On

Verification &

Experiment

Rehearsal

[Extra spicey vindaloo]

LOST IT

Lohan

Onboard

Satalite

Transmission

Integrated

Test

[breakfast]

All the way up

Altitude Lift Lohan Trial Having Especially Wide And Yet Unlikely Parameters

[Chronos]

Channeling Lefty Rimmer here a bit, but...

Communications Launcher (Iridium Traffic) On Restriced Impulse Spacecraft

No South Park comments, please.