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* Service propulsion system, the rocket engine on the US [[Apollo service module#Service Module (SM)|Apollo service module]] |
* Service propulsion system, the [[Aerojet]] [[AJ10]] rocket engine on the US [[Apollo service module#Service Module (SM)|Apollo service module]] |
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* [[Solar power satellite]], an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth |
* [[Solar power satellite]], an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth |
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* Side protection system, another term for a [[torpedo belt]], a part of armoured warship design |
* Side protection system, another term for a [[torpedo belt]], a part of armoured warship design |
Revision as of 02:56, 28 July 2019
SPS may refer to:
Organisations
- Swiss Society of Proteomics, see Life Sciences Switzerland
- Sahara Press Service, the press agency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Sierra Peaks Section
- SPS Commerce
- SPS Technologies, Inc., formerly Standard Pressed Steel Company, an early developer of cap-screws and hex keys, acquired by Precision Castparts Corp.
- Sussex Piscatorial Society, a fishing club in the UK
Education
- Sadiq Public School, a school in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
- School of Professional Studies, of New York University in New York, U.S.
- Sigma Pi Sigma, an honor society in the US
- Social and Political Sciences, of the University of Cambridge, UK
- Society of Physics Students, an international professional association
- Seattle Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Seattle, Washington, US
- Springfield Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Springfield, Missouri, US
- St. Patrick's Higher Secondary School, a school in Asansol, India
- St. Paul's School (disambiguation), name for various schools around the world
Government
- Scottish Prison Service
- Singapore Prison Service
- Somali Postal Service
- State Police Services (India), a number of police services in India
- Staff and Personnel Support Branch, part of the British Army Adjutant General's Corps
Politics
- Socialist Party of Serbia (Socijalistička partija Srbije), a political party in Serbia
- Union of Right Forces (Soyuz Pravykh Sil), a former political party in Russia
Religion
- Saint Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions, a society of missionary secular priests of Ireland
- Society for Pentecostal Studies, an association of biblical scholars
Science and technology
- Samples per second, the sampling rate in converting a continuous signal to a discrete one
- Small polyp stony, term for a class of Scleractinia corals
- Solanapyrone synthase, an enzyme
- Spark plasma sintering, a sintering technique
- Special weather statement, a form of weather advisory
- Stand-alone power system, an off-the-grid electricity system
- Standard positioning service, a Global Positioning System feature
- Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
Computing
- Shell Processing Support, a standard file format to exchange Seismic data
- Simple, Powerful Statistics, a computer program for using Rodger's method
- Site Preview System, a content bundling and scheduling system for the Drupal website content management system
- IBM 1401 Symbolic Programming System, a code assembler
- IBM 1620 and 1710 Symbolic Programming System, an assembly language
- a certificate leading to Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus
Medicine and psychology
- Sensory processing sensitivity, a defining psychological trait of highly sensitive persons, characterized by increased depth of processing of sensory input
- Stiff person syndrome, a rare neurologic disorder
- Syntactic positive shift, an event-related potential in brain imaging
Military and space
- Service propulsion system, the Aerojet AJ10 rocket engine on the US Apollo service module
- Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
- Side protection system, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of armoured warship design
- SR-1 Vektor (Samozaryadnyj Pistolet Serdjukova – Serdyukov Self-loading pistol), semi-automatic pistol developed by Piotr Serdyukov
Law and government
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement, an international treaty of the World Trade Organization
- Single Payment Scheme, a European Union Common Agricultural Policy subsidy payment system
- The Standard Procurement System, for the US Department of Defense
- NATO Science for Peace and Security, a NATO programme
- Station police sergeant, or station sergeant, a defunct British police rank
Transportation
- Wichita Falls Municipal Airport (IATA airport code)
- Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, a defunct railroad in the United States
Other uses
- San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras
- SPS (Mongolia), a television channel of the Mongolian National Broadcasting Service
- Sony Imaging Pro Support, a service program for Sony professional photographers
- Sunday PinaSaya, a Philippine comedy-variety show