Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract, and to keep station.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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