: 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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Protesters confronted tanks with flowers and took down street signs to confuse the soldiers, who killed more than 100 people.
1975: NASA launched the Viking 1 orbiter and lander to explore Mars.
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Draper Laboratories provides the launch and lander and is partnering with ispace with its APEX 1.0 lander which also will deploy relay satellites into orbit in order to allow communication with Earth from the far side of the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Draper Laboratories provides the launch and lander and is partnering with ispace with its APEX 1.0 lander which also will deploy relay satellites into orbit in order to allow communication with Earth from the far side of the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
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.
—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
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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