Usually means: Orbit passing over Earth's poles.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. polar orbit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. polar orbit: Collins English Dictionary
  3. polar orbit: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. polar orbit: Dictionary.com
  5. Polar orbit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. polar orbit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. polar orbit, Polar orbit: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Polar Orbit: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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

Definitions from Wikipedia (Polar orbit)

noun:  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 another body such as the Moon or Sun) on each revolution.


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