| ARTM | Advanced Range TeleMetry |
| ASM | Attached Sync Marker |
| AWGN | Additive White Gaussian Noise |
| BEC | Binary Erasure Channel |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| BP | Belief Propagation |
| BPSK | Binary Phase-shift Keying |
| CPM | Continuous Phase Modulation |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| LDPC | Low-Density Parity-Check |
| LLR | Log-likelihood Ratio |
| MSA | Min-sum Algorithm |
| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
| QC | Quasi-cyclic |
| SISO | Soft-in, Soft-out |
| SOQPSK-TG | Telemetry Group version of Shaped-Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying |
| SPA | Sum-product Algorithm |