- GS: Ground Station, refers to the entire ground station system as a whole.
- GSS: Ground Station Software, refers to the ground station application software that runs on a personal computer.
- GSB: Ground Station Board.
- Widget: the smallest indivisible element that makes up the user interface. It is often identified with the term component in other contexts/languages. It features its own configuration independent of other widgets and operates independently. E.g., 2D/3D graphs, state machine visualizers, component health visualizers, raw message visualizers.
- WRA: without recompiling the application