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:
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)