: 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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Flying is the company’s second Nova-C lander named Athena featuring NASA’s PRIME-1 drill, to land a drill and mass spectrometer near the south pole of the moon in order to demonstrate the feasibility of in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and measure the volatile content of subsurface samples.
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
Orion is then seen flying next to both landers in space, still attached to its SLS upper stage, which is notably not the ICPS.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Amazon has booked 12 New Glenn launches for its Leo broadband satellite constellation, and Blue Origin itself needs its own rocket to begin testing its Blue Moon series of lunar landers—including versions designed to take astronauts back to the Moon for NASA's Artemis Project.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
Now, SpaceX is focused instead on putting a lander on the moon by March 2027.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
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Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026
Orion is then seen flying next to both landers in space, still attached to its SLS upper stage, which is notably not the ICPS.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Amazon has booked 12 New Glenn launches for its Leo broadband satellite constellation, and Blue Origin itself needs its own rocket to begin testing its Blue Moon series of lunar landers—including versions designed to take astronauts back to the Moon for NASA's Artemis Project.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 4 Mar. 2026
Now, SpaceX is focused instead on putting a lander on the moon by March 2027.
—Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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