counterspace

Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to antispace access or assets, and countering space access or assets.
    • In order to understand why a counterspace capability will be critical in 2025, it is only necessary to look at recent developments which point to the explosive growth in usage of space assets worldwide. As both...
    • AFDD 2-2.1 highlights the linkage between the concepts of space situational awareness (SSA) and counterspace operations, explaining that SSA "is the result of sufficient knowledge about space-related conditions,...
    • Haney acknowledged that the July 2014 test (which China described as an "anti-missile technology experiment") did not actually hit a satellite, perhaps by design. "But just seeing the nature of these types of activities...

Origin

From counter- + space.

Forms

counter-space

Related

anti-space antispace