lander
noun
land·er
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Definition of lander
: one that lands
especially
: a space vehicle that is designed to land on a celestial body (such as the moon or a planet)
Examples of lander in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Mission controllers lost communication with India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander this afternoon, shortly before it was expected to settle on the moon’s surface. — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, "India loses communication with moon lander," 6 Sep. 2019 Launched in December 2018 aboard China’s Chang'e-4 lander, Yutu is the first rover to explore the far side of the moon. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "China Claims Lunar Rover Found a Gel-Like Substance on the Moon," 3 Sep. 2019 In May, Bezos unveiled an ambitious plan to send a spaceship to the moon, the Blue Moon lunar lander. — Fox News, "Elon Musk lauds Newt Gingrich's $2B moon competition prize," 21 Aug. 2019 And Blue Origin has its New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lander vehicles. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "Newt Gingrich proposes a $2 billion prize for a human Moon lander," 19 Aug. 2019 The lunar lander program will be led by Marshall’s Lisa Watson-Morgan, formerly an engineering manager. — Washington Post, "NASA picks Alabama’s ‘Rocket City’ for lunar lander job," 16 Aug. 2019 The solar panels on its Mars InSight lander rate a TRL 9, meaning already out in space, working. — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, "The Good Kind of Crazy: The Quest for Exotic Propulsion," 29 July 2019 There are landers on the Moon, Venus, Mars, Titan, the asteroid Eros, and the comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko. — Anders Sandberg, Quartz, "We should stop sending humans into space to do a robot’s job," 19 July 2019 The lander’s seats for the astronauts were removed, as were several windows. — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, "11 things you might not know about Apollo 11 and the Space Race: Apollo 11 at 50," 17 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lander.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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