Science and Engineering
- Service Propulsion System, the rocket engine on the United States Apollo Program Service Module
- Sewerage Pumping Station (or Sanitary Pumping Station), a pumping facility designed to handle raw sewage
- Side Protection System, another term for a torpedo belt, a part of early warship design
- Solar power satellite, an orbital satellite designed to beam solar power down to Earth
- Stand-alone power system (SPS or SAPS)
- Super Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator at CERN
- Switched-mode power supply, an electronic power supply unit that incorporates a switching regulator
- Samples Per Second, a sampling rate
- Spark Plasma Sintering, a sintering technique
- Statistic Process Control, a method of monitoring a process through the use of control charts
- Small polyp stony coral, a category of coral, often collected in aquaria
- SAME code SPS, used for issuing special weather statements and significant weather alerts
- Syndiotactic Polystyrene, an engineering plastic
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