: 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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Execs from Bezos’ Blue Origin aerospace company met with Trump on Friday, the New York Times reported, noting that Blue Origin has a $3.4 billion contract with the NASA to build a lunar lander.
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Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
In February, another Houston startup, Intuitive Machines, guided the first commercial lander to the lunar surface.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
Tight budgets and engineering challenges ruled out a lander or a Europa orbiter.
—Joel Achenbach, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
The company’s projects reach from rockets and spacecraft to space stations and lunar landers.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
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Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
In February, another Houston startup, Intuitive Machines, guided the first commercial lander to the lunar surface.
—Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2024
Tight budgets and engineering challenges ruled out a lander or a Europa orbiter.
—Joel Achenbach, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
The company’s projects reach from rockets and spacecraft to space stations and lunar landers.
—Michael Sheetz, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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