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)

    “I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.”
    —Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)