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Definition of station-keeping in English: station-keepingnoun mass nounThe maintenance of a ship's proper position relative to others in a fleet. they were practising precise station-keeping Example sentencesExamples - In the post-Cold War era, these station-keeping multipliers have been used extensively to justify Navy force levels.
- The engine note rises as the huge catamaran airship jinks and wobbles sideways towards the far end of the pitch and engages its station-keeping motors, then begins to unreel an elevator car the size of a shipping container.
- Measures like these to reduce station-keeping multipliers could be applied only insofar as they did not leave the fleet with insufficient forces for war fighting.
- Another major achievement is the use of ion propulsion technology for satellite station-keeping.
- Large forces generated by perturbations during locomotion (e.g., recovering from a fall, predator avoidance, or station-keeping in high winds) may also utilize a greater proportion of geckos' adhesive capacity.
- XTAR-EUR, which has a specified service life of 15 years, maintains station-keeping and orbital stability by using bipropellant propulsion and momentum-bias systems.
- The simulated airdrops allowed the crews to train with station-keeping equipment, used in adverse weather, while using the new procedures for flying in tactical formation.
- The station-keeping drives are preventing the Curie from descending into a collapsing orbit.
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