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:
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The matter of consulting experienced workers, of keeping all the workers informed of changes in production and wage methods, and how the changes are arrived at, seems to me the most important duty in the whole field of management.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
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