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:

    “...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
    —Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)