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:

    “How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn’t love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”
    —Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

    “Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongs to us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”
    —Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)