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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Heliosynchronous
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Dutch
1 entries- zonsynchroon adj (describing an orbit around the Earth)
Finnish
2 entries- aurinkosynkroninen adj (describing an orbit around the Earth)
- heliosynkroninen adj (describing an orbit around the Sun)
French
1 entries- héliosynchrone adj (describing an orbit around the Earth)
Italian
1 entries- eliosincrono adj (describing an orbit around the Earth)
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