: 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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Artemis 3, planned for 2027, is expected to carry the Starship HLS lander to enable a human return to the moon's surface.
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Primary payload was commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander headed to the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
As of now, SpaceX is slated to supply the lander that will complete NASA’s first moon-landing mission since the Apollo era, called Artemis III, that is currently scheduled to take off by 2028 but could suffer additional delays — in part because the SpaceX lander may not be ready in time.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Also in the hunt is Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the Orion spacecraft, which is proposing an accelerated plan to build a lunar lander cobbled together from hardware already in existence.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Primary payload was commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander headed to the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
As of now, SpaceX is slated to supply the lander that will complete NASA’s first moon-landing mission since the Apollo era, called Artemis III, that is currently scheduled to take off by 2028 but could suffer additional delays — in part because the SpaceX lander may not be ready in time.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
Also in the hunt is Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the Orion spacecraft, which is proposing an accelerated plan to build a lunar lander cobbled together from hardware already in existence.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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