The maintenance of a ship's proper position relative to others in a fleet.
（与船队其他舰船保持适当相对位置的）定位
they were practising precise station-keeping
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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.