: one that lands
especially
: a space vehicle that is designed to land on a celestial body (such as the moon or a planet)
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The Griffin lander will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of Nobile crater close to the lunar south pole.
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
Yamagata University Rover landers and spacecraft alike could be fitted with highly dexterous arms to grab, hook, or even assemble human habitats on the moon, or make repairs to the International Space Station (at least until SpaceX crashes the ISS into Earth).
—New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2024
SpaceX will provide a version of its powerful Starship rocket as a lunar lander, and Blue Origin is working on its own system called Blue Moon.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
China plans to launch two more Chang’e lunar lander missions to the moon’s south pole in 2026 and 2028 that will carry out resource surveys and create a scientific research station.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
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Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
Yamagata University Rover landers and spacecraft alike could be fitted with highly dexterous arms to grab, hook, or even assemble human habitats on the moon, or make repairs to the International Space Station (at least until SpaceX crashes the ISS into Earth).
—New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2024
SpaceX will provide a version of its powerful Starship rocket as a lunar lander, and Blue Origin is working on its own system called Blue Moon.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2024
China plans to launch two more Chang’e lunar lander missions to the moon’s south pole in 2026 and 2028 that will carry out resource surveys and create a scientific research station.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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