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station-keeping

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See the extract, and to keep station.

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Examples

  • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, to conduct the fundamental and applied research needed to develop effective near-space technologies for station-keeping - 600,000 Shelby

    Getting Pork The Old Fashioned Way in Huntsville - NASA Watch 2007

  • What they haven't done yet is trained a cadre of Taikonauts in the skills required in the 60's as regards docking, station-keeping and EVA.

    Tortoise and Hare - the Chinese Space Programme Zoe Brain 2008

  • Among other things, the Challenge will provide prizes to encourage private space missions by giving specific awards for things like soft robotic lunar landing, micro reentry vehicle, solar sail station-keeping, aeroassist, and human orbital flight.

    Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Competitions everywhere 2004

  • She had come to station-keeping just within transporter range of Okinawa, her situation precarious in all senses.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • She had come to station-keeping just within transporter range of Okinawa, her situation precarious in all senses.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Things were quiet, the Iconian ships were at station-keeping, her crew had a chance to eat at their stations, and she sat in the command chair and felt … what was it Will called it once?

    Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001

  • He was to look for any kind of timeshifted emanation from her, whether it was the venting of hydrazine from her station-keeping thrusters or the standard signals from her Starfleet automatic Identify Friend-or-Foe transmission.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • The PSPT layer was for micrometeoroid protection, a final fail-safe for the station in case the station-keeping deflectors went off-line.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • He was to look for any kind of timeshifted emanation from her, whether it was the venting of hydrazine from her station-keeping thrusters or the standard signals from her Starfleet automatic Identify Friend-or-Foe transmission.

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • The ship's computer began station-keeping, otherwise they would be sucked in and through the vortex.

    Objective: Bajor John Peel 2000

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