: 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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Last year, its Lunar Magnetelluric Sounder traveled to the moon aboard Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander.
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Brandon Lingle, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
Subtle color changes along the rays might provide hints of where future lander missions, with or without crews, might investigate different eras of the Moon’s geologic history.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
The state has brought in a lot of aerospace manufacturing in the last decade, including Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lunar lander production plants in Merritt Island and SpaceX’s in-development Starship rocket plant at Kennedy Space Center.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Then an instrument on the lander will beam lasers outward to the rovers to compare their distances with microscopic precision.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
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Brandon Lingle, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
Subtle color changes along the rays might provide hints of where future lander missions, with or without crews, might investigate different eras of the Moon’s geologic history.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026
The state has brought in a lot of aerospace manufacturing in the last decade, including Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lunar lander production plants in Merritt Island and SpaceX’s in-development Starship rocket plant at Kennedy Space Center.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Then an instrument on the lander will beam lasers outward to the rovers to compare their distances with microscopic precision.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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