Missiles can hit ballistic missiles, and naturally they can also hit satellites. Compared with ballistic missiles, satellites have the characteristics of fixed flight orbit, so it is easier to attack satellites than to intercept ballistic missiles to a certain extent. In terms of the current technological development trend, anti satellite methods are mainly divided into soft killing and hard destruction.
Missiles working in the form of hard destruction, such as the US "standard-3" missile or GBI missile, can fly directly to the target. When the target satellite reaches a certain position, the missile also reaches the position, and then destroy the target through direct impact or explosion. This attack mode has high requirements for missile precise guidance and target recognition technology. Another way of hard destruction is to launch the missile into the same orbit as the target, but with a different flight speed from the target satellite. In fact, it is equivalent to placing a "killer satellite" in the orbit of the target satellite. This way is called common orbit hard destruction. When the common orbit "killer satellite" approaches the target, it will destroy the target satellite through explosion or direct impact. This method is also called "sky thunder", which is like a mine buried in the sky. This requires high flight measurement and control technology for satellite orbit entry and orbit change, which is Russia's strength.