How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

noun

• That's why landers and rovers have heat shields.
  — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• Japan’s lander ended up on the wrong side, too, just last month.
  — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• The goal is a moon base with landers, rovers, drones and habitats.
  — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
• How mature will the landers be?
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
• The lander sent out seismic waves through the planet at many points.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• Orion is to dock with the lander, which will then head to the surface.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• But the rail would need to be heavy and almost as long as the lander itself.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2022
• In Vermont, back-to-the-landers bought old hill farms for dirt cheap.
  — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Have the lander bang itself with the shovel on its robotic arm.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2020
• The lander is not designed to survive the frigid dark lunar night.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
• The Blue Origin lander will launch first.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 June 2026
• The longer travel time can lead to more wear and tear to the lander and its instruments.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2025
• The rover will find the samples, grab them, and deliver them to the lander.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 Mar. 2021
• The car-sized lander will deploy a small rover to explore the moon's surface.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• This would require much more than just the lander to accomplish.
  — New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
• Starship was always a poor choice as a lunar lander.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
• The space agency still needs to come up with new lunar landers, rovers and spacesuits.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
• Firefly also shared the lander’s first two images of the moon.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
• An orbiter and lander—complete with a rover of its own—will blast off from Earth.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2020
• SpaceX’s lander will have nearly 10 times that.
  — Thomas Black, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026
• Lander, lander, who's got the lander?
  — Space.com Staff, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
• Half of each rover would anchor to the rim, then belay its partner down to the main lander on the crater floor.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 15 June 2021
• The Israelis crashed a lander in April trying to do the same thing.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
• Both of those missions will require at least one of the two private lunar landers to be ready.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2026
• But would the scope of the mission be different if the lunar lander were ready for use?
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
• As of this week, the lander has registered around 450 quakes.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2020
• In the Apollo days, the lander and the mother ship were launched on the same rocket.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
• China plans to launch a lander and rover to Mars next year to explore parts of the planet.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• But the tall, spindly lander face-planted in a crater near the moon's south pole and was declared dead within hours.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
• The lander will release the fetch rover on the Martian surface.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Aug. 2020