The name immediately makes me think of the submarine-launched ballistic missile system that proceeded Trident [1, 2]. TBH, I was expecting the link to be to an article about the history of SLBMs.
There's apparently also an Israeli reconnaissance satellite [3] and North Korean SLBM that are referred to as Polaris [4] (plus, obviously, the star).
Why the hell would someone choose to refer to a second, unrelated, SLBM as 'Polaris'? This has the same energy as the professor who decided to write an exam question using small epsilon and large epsilon for different energies.
IMO stars names precede the weapon systems that unfortunately tarnish their name. I would view this as a chance to eradicate the unfortunate association between the star and war.
