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

Places

* Semipalatinsk Test Site for Soviet nuclear weapons *

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, county in England, Chapman code

Transport

Cadillac STS The Cadillac STS (Seville Touring Sedan) is a mid-sized luxury 4-door sedan manufactured and marketed by General Motors from 2004 to 2011 for the 2005 to 2011 model years. A version of the STS was sold in China as the SLS through 2013. It was ...

, a luxury car * NASA

Space Transportation System The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), was a proposed system of reusable crewed space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo program. ...

, 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 Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its ...

, the shuttle program itself, whose mission were referred to with STS-numbering * Sail training ship, a

ship prefix A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/n ...

* Satellite Transit System, now called the

SEA Underground The SEA Underground, formerly called the Satellite Transit System (STS), is an automated people mover (APM) system operating in the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington, United States. Originally opening in 1973, the SEA ...

, airport transit in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport * Ship-to-ship transfer, between seagoing ships * ''

Société de transport de Sherbrooke Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) provides public transit services to Sherbrooke, the only major city in the Eastern Townships (Estrie) region of Quebec, Canada. After the amalgamation of what are now neighbouring boroughs into a regiona ...

'', a public bus system in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada * ''

Société de transport du Saguenay Société de transport du Saguenay (STS) is the public transport company in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, formerly the ''Corporation intermunicipale de transport du Saguenay (CITS)''. They operate from three main terminals located in the boroughs of ...

'', 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 Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

* STS, the National Rail code for

Saltash railway station Saltash railway station serves the town of Saltash in Cornwall, England. It is on the south side of the town between the Royal Albert Bridge which crosses the River Tamar and the Coombe Viaduct which spans a small tributary of the same river. ...

, Cornwall, UK

Science and technology

Space Tourism Society The Space Tourism Society (STS) is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1996 by John Spencer, a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society, with the goal of promoting space tourism. Their stated goal, ...

* Scanning tunneling spectroscopy * Science and technology studies * 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 {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Synergy Teleconferencing System (STS) was a PC-based online chat server popular in the 1980s and 1990s. It arose as a replacement for the outdated Diversi-Dial system (DDial). Like DDial, it was a multi-line modem ...

, 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) CTC (Pronounced as STS, stands for russian: Сеть Телевизионных Станций, , Network of television stations) is a commercial television station based in Moscow, Russia. It belongs to the CTC Media company. The company is owne ...

, Russia * Synchronous transport signal, in synchronous optical networking

Culture

* Satanas, a Filipino-American gang * Stepover toehold sleeper, a wrestling hold *

S.T.S. S.T.S. (also ''STS''; acronym for "Steinbäcker – Timischl – Schiffkowitz") was a three-member Austropop band from Graz in Austria. Its most famous songs are " Großvater", "Irgendwann bleib i dann dort", "Gö, du bleibst heut Nacht bei m ...

, an Austropop band

Societies, organizations and companies

Scottish Tartans Society The Scottish Tartans Society (STS) was a society committed to the recording and preservation of woven tartan designs from around the world; it maintained the ''Register of All Publicly Known Tartans''. The society was first formed in 1963 and ex ...

, a defunct Scottish society *

Sisu Terminal Systems Sisu Terminal Systems Oy (STS) was a Finnish terminal tractor producer. The production began in 1969 as a part of Suomen Autoteollisuus (SAT) and the first vehicles were based on lorry components. The portfolio grew by time. The production facili ...

, a former terminal tractor producer * Society of the Holy Trinity (Societas Trinitatis Sanctae – STS), Lutheran ministerium *

Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki National Workers' Savings Bank (1971-1989) (In Finnish; ''Suomen Työväen Säästöpankki'', in Swedish; ''Arbetarsparbanken'') or STS-Bank (1989-1992) was a Finnish savings bank and commercial bank. Workers' savings banks were syndicalist, ...

, 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 In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual res ...

, the plural of Saint, for example: Sts. Peter and Paul *

Short-term business statistics Short-term business statistics (STS) are economic statistics published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission. They cover all member states of the European Union and - in some areas - also third countries, and provide aggr ...

Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School is a private university prep school in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. It has students in Grades K to 12, with its Grade 12 Achievement test, provincial exam scores consistently highly ranked. Strathcona-Tweedsmuir is South ...

, Alberta, Canada *

Susquehannock Trail System The Susquehannock Trail System (STS) is an loop hiking trail in Susquehannock State Forest in Potter County (with a few short segments in Clinton County) in north-central Pennsylvania, United States. The trail walks through two state parks and ...

, Pennsylvania, US