anti-satellite
Adjective
Meaning
anti-satellite (not comparable)
(Of a weapon) designed to destroy satellites
Examples
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
China’s growing anti-satellite capabilities will be a challenge for the coming administration, Rose wrote in a paper published in April by the Brookings Institution.
In general, a fast, long-range and heavy-lifting platform like the F-15 Eagle could be useful for deploying heavy payloads ranging from electronic warfare pods, anti-satellite or ballistic missiles systems, hypersonic missiles to drone swarms.
COM, 11/25/2012 It will also act as an anti-satellite weapon.
Program 437 used modified Thor missiles that had been returned from deployment in Great Britain and was the second deployed U.S. operational nuclear anti-satellite operation.