Satellite

**Satellite** is a Tier 1 Celestial weapon upgrade. It can be evolved from Nova.

## Technical/Design

**Satellite** is a hybrid of pink triangle with multiple drone spawners, 3 big and 6 small.

Base Stats
 Small Drone Spawner Reload
 Big Drone Damage
 Small Drone Damage
 Drone Speed
 Bullet Penetration

[Source: Tank Editor from the Test Server]

## Strategy

#### As a Satellite

Note that it is better to grind until **97M** and ascend after that - tier 1 Celestials are fairly weak, and can easily be beaten by level 45 tanks. Just take these strategies as a reference. If you went to a server, and you don’t see any other Celestial, try to get back to the Sanctuary and try another server. An alternative is to go to the Crossroads, where is much safer and you can grind until level 90.

The strategies below will mainly talk about playing as a **Satellite** with teammates:

* A Satellite's drones are extremely vulnerable. Avoid tanks that have a concentrated fire (or high damage and high penetration). Rammers are equally dangerous as the tanks mentioned before, for such with clever movements. A suggestion is down in the Build Advice, so be sure to check it out.
* At most cases, a Wave uses an attack build, meaning that Exosphere will be less efficient because auras can’t weaken bullets. Go with Nebula, ~~pray~~ and try to find teammates in the server. Nebula can survive for at least a little while due to the auto-cannon, but still not good against a Wave in the long run.
* Fighting a tank with superior FoV is disadvantageous. Try **grouping up with other celestials.**

#### Against a Satellite

* A Sniper branch tank is a good choice against a Satellite based on the weak defence (and thus how weak it is against concentrated attacks). Outside the FoV of the Satellite, aim at the celestial and beverly attack it. A Marksman will usually do the work, but there is a potential for a skilled Assassin user.
* As a rammer, simply use clever movements to avoid its drones. Just be wary if the Satellite is equipped with Exosphere as it damage you heavily and you might kill yourself. Never ram straight in if it is with teammates like Debris. The traps damage you even more seriously than auras and might cost instant death.
* A high fire-power tank will likely defeat this celestial with ease. The weak drones will be easily destroyed by the bullets. Counter the target to the edge to make life easier - for this, optimal choices could be either Amalgam or Wave.
* Bullet spammers will unluckily be weak against this, and other drone tanks, because it can surrounds you with drones easily while your cannons are mostly concentrated in one direction. Try to use recoil to escape - you still stand a chance as their drones are relatively slow. Octo might be better though because their cannons are placed everywhere around its body!

#### Matchups

* **Weak Against:** Most level 45 tanks (exceptions are: Rammers when with Exosphere, Trap-only tanks like Riot, bullet spammers)
* **Goes Well With:** As exceptions mentioned above, excluding bullet spammers
* **Strong Against:** Bullet spammers, level 1-44s

#### Build Advice

* The optimal and likely the only way to avoid being targeted by rammers is to use Exosphere.