polar orbit


noun
  1. a spacecraft orbit that passes over, or close to, the geographic poles of the earth or some other celestial body.

Origin of polar orbit

1
First recorded in 1960–65

Words Nearby polar orbit

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How to use polar orbit in a sentence

  • The war-fleet of Kandar, in very fine formation, flowed in its polar orbit around the fourth planet out from Kandar's sun.

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British Dictionary definitions for polar orbit

polar orbit

noun
  1. the orbit of a satellite that passes over the poles of a planet

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