lander

noun

land·​er ˈlan-dər 

: one that lands

especially : a space vehicle that is designed to land on a celestial body (such as the moon or a planet)

Examples of lander in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Among their duties, the dual landers scooped up the first soil samples of Mars and deposited those precious collectibles into onboard, specialized equipment. — Leonard David, Space.com, 20 July 2026

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1—the first successful Mars lander in history—touched down on the red planet. — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

This, in turn, would move Starship closer to readiness for flights to the Moon in support of NASA’s Artemis lunar lander program. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

As part of its Artemis program, the space agency hopes to use a lunar-lander variant of the vehicle to send astronauts to the surface of the moon as soon as 2028. — Lee Billings & Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 16 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for lander

• brander
• candor
• dander
• gander
• grander
• hander
• laender
• pander
• sander
• slander
• stander
• zander