: 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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Firefly Aerospace with Blue Ghost lander under NASA CLPS initiative.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
The lander then deftly shifted its path to an orbit just 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon's surface.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 June 2025
The total mass for this equipment would be about 40 metric tons, which could fly on a single Starship or two New Glenn Mk 2 landers.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon's south pole and was declared dead within hours.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
The lander then deftly shifted its path to an orbit just 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the moon's surface.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 June 2025
The total mass for this equipment would be about 40 metric tons, which could fly on a single Starship or two New Glenn Mk 2 landers.
—Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2025
But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon's south pole and was declared dead within hours.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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