Station Keeping

Station keeping may refer to:

  • Orbital stationkeeping, manoeuvres used to keep a spacecraft in an assigned orbit
  • Nautical stationkeeping, maintaining a seagoing vessel in a position relative to other vessels or a fixed point

Famous quotes containing the words station and/or keeping:

    “To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”
    —Sarah Ellis (1812–1872)

    “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:8,9.