Meaning of heliosynchronous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Describing an orbit around the Earth where each passage in the same direction along a given latitude will occur throughout the year at the same true solar time.
   not-comparable
2. Describing an orbit around the Sun in which the period of revolution is the same as the Sun's period of rotation.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“A heliosynchronous orbit is an orbit [around the Earth] whose plane precesses by [a little less than] one degree a day around the line of the poles, thus keeping the same position in relation to the Earth-Sun line.”

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