: 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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The current moon landing architecture requires a high number of SpaceX Starship launches in order to refuel the lander that would take NASA astronauts to the moon.
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Blue Origin famously filed a lawsuit against NASA after the space agency chose SpaceX’s Starship as its lunar lander.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
Sometime next year, Blue Origin plans to fly its Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo-only lander on New Glenn (named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth).
—PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
New Glenn will next launch Blue Origin’s Blue Moon uncrewed lander in early 2026.
—Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Blue Origin famously filed a lawsuit against NASA after the space agency chose SpaceX’s Starship as its lunar lander.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
Sometime next year, Blue Origin plans to fly its Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo-only lander on New Glenn (named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth).
—PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
New Glenn will next launch Blue Origin’s Blue Moon uncrewed lander in early 2026.
—Wendy Whitman Cobb, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2025
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 11 Dec. 2025.
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