: 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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Europe’s long-term Enceladus plans The new mission will require an orbiter and a lander to analyze Enceladus comprehensively.
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
Among its previous missions were the Crew-9 and Fram2 astronaut flights and Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, which sent a private robotic lander to the moon.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2025
In the end, the Viking landers found no creatures, and biological experiments proved inconclusive.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Yes, there are good reasons to question NASA's long-term plans for the Artemis lunar program—the woeful cost of the Space Launch System rocket, the complexity of new commercial landers, and a bleak budget outlook.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
Among its previous missions were the Crew-9 and Fram2 astronaut flights and Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, which sent a private robotic lander to the moon.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 21 Sep. 2025
In the end, the Viking landers found no creatures, and biological experiments proved inconclusive.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Yes, there are good reasons to question NASA's long-term plans for the Artemis lunar program—the woeful cost of the Space Launch System rocket, the complexity of new commercial landers, and a bleak budget outlook.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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