: 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 rocket's first flight in January 2024 saw Vulcan launch Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander toward the moon — only for the lander to suffer an anomaly and fall back to Earth through no fault of the rocket.
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Since the 1960s, NASA has powered Apollo missions, space probes and Martian landers using radioisotopic batteries that turn the heat emitted by Plutonium-238 and other decaying isotopes into electricity.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Once on the moon’s south pole, the Blue Ghost lander will deploy two rovers — Carnegie Mellon University and Astrobotic’s MoonRanger, and a Canadian Space Agency rover — along with three scientific payloads designed to gather data over a 12-day mission.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
Sea Life is home to creatures such as sharks, turtles, stingrays, jellyfish and seahorses, and the structural highlight is probably the Ocean Tunnel that gives dry landers an all-around look at underwater life.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2025
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Since the 1960s, NASA has powered Apollo missions, space probes and Martian landers using radioisotopic batteries that turn the heat emitted by Plutonium-238 and other decaying isotopes into electricity.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Once on the moon’s south pole, the Blue Ghost lander will deploy two rovers — Carnegie Mellon University and Astrobotic’s MoonRanger, and a Canadian Space Agency rover — along with three scientific payloads designed to gather data over a 12-day mission.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
Sea Life is home to creatures such as sharks, turtles, stingrays, jellyfish and seahorses, and the structural highlight is probably the Ocean Tunnel that gives dry landers an all-around look at underwater life.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2025
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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