Naming, as we know, is hard. This little bit from Andrew Blum's The Weather Machine is a useful reminder of how to do it. It describes a soil moisture-measuring weather satellite that was originally given the rather heroic name Hydros (the god of the waters). Soon, however, it instead became known as SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) because...
"...“We wanted it to be extremely clear just in the name, so when the folks at NASA headquarters are sitting in a closed room making decisions, there’s no question that it’s active and passive, and that it measures soil moisture.”"