piggyboy2005 t1_iy6brkj wrote
Reply to comment by paulfromatlanta in China's solar observatory beams back its first image of our host star by Eat_dy
>A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit,[1] is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time.[2][3] More technically, it is an orbit arranged so that it precesses through one complete revolution each year, so it always maintains the same relationship with the Sun.
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From wikipedia.
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