heliosynchronous
Adjective
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Adjective
heliosynchronous (not comparable)
- 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.
- Synonyms: Sun-synchronous
- Describing an orbit around the Sun in which the period of revolution is the same as the Sun's period of rotation.
- geostationary
- geosynchronous
- heliostationary
- French: héliosynchrone
- Italian: eliosincrono
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