Assertion: satellite's orbit | /r/HasProperty | sun-synchronous
Facets:
value: sun
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Polar orbiting weather satellites are in sun-synchronous orbits, which means they are able to observe any place on Earth and will view every location twice each day with the same general lighting conditions due to the near-constant local solar time.
text: The path that a satellite has to travel to stay in a Sun-synchronous orbit is very narrow.
text: The satellite was designed to operate in a sun-synchronous orbit and many of the payloads required unique sun-angles, and so the orbit was creatively designed by Robert Cleave to operate without the need for an on-board propulsion subsystem, which was later identified as a key winning strategy.