STS explained

STS, or sts, may refer to:

Medicine

• Secondary traumatic stress, a condition which leads to a diminished ability to empathize
• Sequence-tagged site, a gene-reference in genomics
• Soft-tissue sarcoma
• Staurosporine, an antibiotic
• STS (gene), which codes for steroid sulfatase
• Superior temporal sulcus
• Sinus tarsi syndrome, a foot condition

Places

• Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons
• Staffordshire, county in England, Chapman code

Transport

• Cadillac STS, a luxury car
• NASA Space Transportation System, the system in which the NASA shuttle is part of and only surviving component of; starting as a 1969 NASA proposal system for reusable space vehicles
  • NASA Space Shuttle program, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering
• Sail training ship, a ship prefix
• Satellite Transit System, now called the SEA Underground, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
• Ship-to-ship transfer, between seagoing ships
• Société de transport de Sherbrooke, a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
• Société de transport du Saguenay, a public bus system in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada
• Sonar Technician Submarine, a US Navy rating
• STS, the IATA airport code for Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport
• STS, the National Rail code for Saltash railway station, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

• Space Tourism Society
• Scanning tunneling spectroscopy
• Science and technology studies, a.k.a. science, technology, and society
• Sociotechnical system
• Special treatment steel, used by the US Navy c.1910
• Static transfer switch, a semiconductor switch
• STS 5 an Australopithecus specimen
• Suomenkielisten teknikkojen seura, now incorporated into Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK

Computing and communications

• HTTP Strict Transport Security
• Security token service, a web service
• Set Transmit State, hex 93 in the C1 set of control codes
• Spring Tool Suite, IDE for Spring Framework
• Station-to-Station protocol, a cryptographic key agreement scheme
• Synergy Teleconferencing System, a PC-based chat server
• Serviciul de Telecomunicaţii Speciale, the Romanian special telecommunication service
• STS Relay, US speech to speech relay service for people with a speech disability
• STS (TV channel), Russia
• Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking
• Saga Television Station, a Japanese commercial broadcaster

Culture

• Satanas, a Filipino-American gang
• Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold
• S.T.S. (band), an Austropop band

Societies, organizations and companies

• Scottish Tartans Society, a defunct Scottish society
• Sisu Terminal Systems, a former terminal tractor producer
• Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium
• Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki, a defunct Finnish commercial bank
• Hitachi Rail STS, formerly known as Ansaldo STS, a company specializing in railway signalling and control systems

Other uses

• Saints, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul
• Short-term business statistics
• Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Alberta, Canada
• Susquehannock Trail System, Pennsylvania, US