contraorbit missile
contraorbit missile
[¦kän·trə¦ȯr·bət ′mis·əl] (aerospace engineering)
A missile that is sent backward along the calculated orbit of an aerospace weapon, satellite, or spacecraft for the purpose of destroying it in a head-on collision with an explosive warhead or through use of a secondary missile.
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