A polar orbit is one in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited (usually a planet such as the Earth, but possibly...

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given...

altitude above ground can vary by as much as 30 km (19 mi) (especially for polar orbits) due to the oblateness of Earth's spheroid figure and local topography...

The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide...

the solar cycle. Inclined orbit: An orbit whose inclination in reference to the equatorial plane is not 0. Polar orbit: An orbit that passes above or nearly...

000 km (1,200 mi). Inclined orbit An orbit whose inclination in reference to the equatorial plane is not 0. Polar orbit A satellite that passes above...

Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6) was developed to permit launches into polar orbit. As the 1960s progressed, the Vietnam War competed with the MOL for funds...

Earth stations. A polar orbit has an inclination of 90 degrees passing over the poles of the planet on each pass. These types of orbits are often used for...

goal of studying the planet in detail from a polar orbit. The spacecraft was originally intended to orbit Jupiter thirty-seven times over a period of twenty...

List of orbits Molniya orbit Orbit determination Orbital spaceflight Perifocal coordinate system Polar orbit Radial trajectory Rosetta orbit VSOP model...

theory claims that a spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin is in near-polar orbit of the Earth, and that NASA is covering up its existence and origin....

to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting (covering the entire Earth asynchronously), or geostationary (hovering...

States, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was established in 1994 to consolidate the polar satellite operations...

Science (GGS) Polar satellite was a NASA science spacecraft designed to study the polar magnetosphere and aurorae. It was launched into orbit in February...

August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program. Juno entered a polar orbit of Jupiter on July 5, 2016, UTC, to begin a scientific investigation...

allowing payloads to be placed in high-inclination orbits such as polar or Sun-synchronous orbit, which allow full global coverage on a regular basis...

artificial satellites orbiting the Earth, because they have zero apogee drift. An inclination of exactly 90° is a polar orbit, in which the spacecraft...

Polar molecules must contain one or more polar bonds due to a difference in electronegativity between the bonded atoms. Molecules containing polar bonds...

if approaching the black hole in the direction of the equator. In a polar orbit, there is only one photon sphere. This is because when approaching at...

introduction of the polar system was the study of circular and orbital motion. Polar coordinates are most appropriate in any context where the phenomenon...

beneath the surface of the lunar south pole. It will be inserted into a polar orbit around the Moon, with its periselene located near the lunar south pole...

Earth Orbits (LEO) orbits and providing satellite imagery of various parts of the Earth. To get global coverage with a low orbit, a polar orbit is used...

planets, but which flew past Jupiter to gain gravity assists en route to a polar orbit around the Sun (Ulysses), and to Pluto (New Horizons). Pluto was considered...

increasingly important role for polar-orbiting satellite data in numerical weather prediction and climate monitoring. EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) Metop mission...

22 years, 6 months and 7 days. As of October 2019[update] it is in a polar orbit around Mars with a semi-major axis of about 3,800 km or 2,400 miles....

Discoverer 1, a prototype with no camera, is the first satellite in polar orbit 1959: USS Skate (SSN-578) becomes first submarine to surface at the North...

very close repeat of the ground trace. In the case of polar orbit or highly inclined low Earth orbit reconnaissance satellites, the sensor must have the...

Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit. It was expected to use Discovery. It would have been the first crewed...

launched in 2002 consists of two probes, nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry", in polar orbit around the Earth measuring differences in the distance between the two...

currently about 70,000 light-years from Earth, travelling in a polar orbit (an orbit passing over the Milky Way's galactic poles) at a distance of about...