Usually means: Orbit aligns with Earth's rotation.
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  1. Sun-synchronous orbit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. sun-synchronous orbit: TheFreeDictionary.com
  3. sun-synchronous orbit: Wiktionary

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  1. sun-synchronous orbit: Encyclopedia

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  1. Sun-Synchronous Orbit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sun-synchronous orbit)

noun:  (astrodynamics) A nearly polar orbit in which a satellite passes over the surface of a planet maintaining the same local mean solar time.

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