polar orbit

noun

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

Origin of polar orbit

First recorded in 1960–65

Words nearby polar orbit

polar front, polar lights, polar molecule, polar nucleus, polar opposition, polar orbit, polar outbreak, polar regions, polar sequence, polar star, polar vortex

British Dictionary definitions for polar orbit

polar orbit

noun

the orbit of a satellite that passes over the poles of a planet