Samos-2 was the first satellite to enter a sun-synchronous orbit.
The satellite is scheduled to be launched into a sun-synchronous orbit.
The sun-synchronous orbit is used to keep the solar cells illuminated at all times.
The spacecraft was placed in a sun-synchronous orbit of 101.4 inclination.
Some of our tiny pico-satellites try to stay in "sun-synchronous orbit", always over the day/night line on the Earth below them.
It will be placed in a sun-synchronous polar orbit about 800 km above the earth.
This period combined with the sun-synchronous orbit would have the satellite pass over the whole surface of the planet twice a day.
But Venus, for example, is too spherical to have a satellite in sun-synchronous orbit.
Sun-synchronous orbits are possible around other oblate planets, such as Mars.
The spacecraft will have a ground sampling distance of 1 meter at 600 km in a sun-synchronous orbit.