What is a solar orbit?

[ItsSky]

So I've built a station, and I want it to be in a 120km orbit.  Yet i'm not sure what a solar orbit is.  I have a infrared scanner on it and when i put it on a normal orbit, it says it needs to be on a solar orbit.  Whats a solar orbit?

[Commodore_32]

Its an orbit around the sun, ecery planet has a orbit around it, if you espcape a planet you are in a solar orbit.

[Vanamonde]

The idea is that the infrared scanner would be overwhelmed by the heat coming off the planet, so for it to work you need to be far out in space. So it won't work from an orbit of Kerbin.  If you send a craft beyond the sphere of Kerbin's simulated gravity, it will be in orbit around the sun rather than around Kerbin. 

[Fierce Wolf]

1) escape Kerbin with your vessel

2) If it's for a contract, an orbit will be drawn in map mode, or if it's just something you want there, burn until you have the AP and PE of your choice.