: 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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Planetary scientist Jeff Plescia of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory soon began to search the LROC imagery for Soviet landers, combing Oceanus Procellarum despite knowing that success was unlikely.
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Ilya Ferapontov, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Those include launches for Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander and for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, which is ahead of schedule.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
The company is shifting its focus to developing lunar lander technology for NASA's Artemis missions.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
In the meantime, there has been a steady cadence of robotic lunar orbiters and landers (Chang’e-6 returned the first-ever soil sample from the moon’s far side in 2024), soon to be followed, we’re now told, by Chinese astronauts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
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Ilya Ferapontov, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
Those include launches for Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander and for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, which is ahead of schedule.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2026
The company is shifting its focus to developing lunar lander technology for NASA's Artemis missions.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
In the meantime, there has been a steady cadence of robotic lunar orbiters and landers (Chang’e-6 returned the first-ever soil sample from the moon’s far side in 2024), soon to be followed, we’re now told, by Chinese astronauts.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Feb. 2026
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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