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* The expansion pack for ''[[Supreme Commander]]'' gives these to the UEF. They aren't particularly powerful, but given enough resources, you can use a group of them to pick off enemies with impunity.

* In ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'', BARAM turns Mars' moon, Deimos, into a Kill Sat based on the Urenbeck Catapult, a form of space-compression power slingshot. {{spoiler|'Course, then it turns out the real use is to ''not'' fire it, and let the overload blow a hole in space/time three times the size of the solar system.}}

** Then there's the Aduka, whose secondary weapon is specifically designed to call down the Thor. A 4v4 match where ''everyone'' is piloting an Aduka... things aren't so bad in the beginning, but the pain ''really'' starts once Thor hits 3 or 4.

* The first [[Limit Break|Support Character]] you earn in ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]: [[Long Title|On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness]]: [[Colon Cancer|Episode 2]]'' is a 14-year old girl. With a steampunk Kill Sat.

* In ''[[Drive]]'', it is revealed the Tesskans used some kind of Kill Sat on Berlin, Beijing, and New York City.

* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'', being a combination of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', is ''named'' after the command that field agents of the Mobian Inquisition can use in times of imminent defeat or upon discovering a massive demon incursion to request a direct strike from an orbital weapons platform on their current position—which means if they don't manage to get far away quickly enough, they too will go out with a bang. Note that this is a ''toned down'' version of the W40K Exterminatus...

** Earlier on, the same character hijacked an old secret Soviet orbital weapons platform to nuke Canada.

* The RPG-spoof ''[[Adventurers!]]'' has a laser-obsessed [[Big Bad]] who loves nothing more than using his orbital-based [[Death Ray]] to [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030430.html toast bread and make sammiches.]

* The "Eyes in the Sky" from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. In the ghoul-infested world, these "Eyes" were used to [[Death From Above|rain destruction down upon attacking ghouls]].

* ''[[User Friendly]]'' is also fond of this trope, in the form of "Crowbar Satellites", which... well, drop crowbars from orbit. When the User Friendly crew were visiting Antarctica, one of the techs living there used a satellite to drop a crowbar on the unfortunate Predator wandering around outside with a soldering iron stuck in his eye (it's a long story), exploding him quite satisfactorily. Pitr (resident evil-genius wannabe) eventually got his own Crowbar Satellite... at least until one of the other techs found the remote and mistook it for a handheld game, wasting all the ammo.

** Technically, the moon is a satellite.

* ''NSTA'' revolves around the operations of the titular National Satellite Tracking Agency, which manages orbital satellites used for both techno-telepathic [[90% of Your Brain|brain-borrowing]] computation and orbital laser strikes. The first strip to introduce the latter functionality involved precision brain surgery by thought-controlled orbital laser.