areosynchronous

Having a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)

Adjective

  1. Having a rate of revolution that matches the rotation period of Mars, and thus remaining over the same point on that planet's surface. (of the orbit of a satellite)
    • […] the ships dropped a string of comm-relay satellites in areosynchronous orbit. - 1986, Thomas Wren, chapter 14, in The Doomsday Effect,, New York: Baen Books, page 195:
    • I can’t think of her [the spaceship] as an object. Not when I’m living inside her, sailing serenely along in areosynchronous orbit. - 2004, Elizabeth Bear, Hammered, New York: Bantam, Book 2, p. 180:

Origin

From areo- + synchronous; compare geosynchronous.