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antisatellite

a. (context military English) Intended to destroy or incapacitate a satellite

WordNet
antisatellite

adj. of or relating to a system to destroy satellites in orbit; "antisatellite weapons" [syn: asat]

Usage examples of "antisatellite".

We have experimental ground-based ABM and ASAT, antiballistic missile and antisatellite, laser weapons.

It's most effective above thirty thousand feet, which makes it a perfect antiballistic missile and antisatellite weapon, but we can get a one-quarter- to one-half-kiloton-equivalent yield even at sea level.

Lancelot is teamed up with cruise missiles to destroy not only enemy rockets but the launchers as well, and Lancelot even has an antisatellite capability.

They'd nailed dozens of ICBMs in flight, missiles we'd retasked as antisatellite weapons, then fried the silos those rockets launched from.