How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

noun

• Orion is to dock with the lander, which will then head to the surface.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• The rover will find the samples, grab them, and deliver them to the lander.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 5 Mar. 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
• Japan’s lander ended up on the wrong side, too, just last month.
  — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• The InSight Mars lander has turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• The car-sized lander will deploy a small rover to explore the moon's surface.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• The lander sent out seismic waves through the planet at many points.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• The image shows that a ramp on the lander has been extended to the surface of Mars.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2021
• SpaceX won a sole-source contract worth $2.9 billion in April to build the first lander for the first crewed flight to the surface of the Moon.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2021
• 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 Peregrine lander never made it to the moon, but a second chance for the U.S. came a month later.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
• At the very least, Ellis says, the lander will collect images of Mars and send them back to Earth.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 July 2022
• An artist's impression of a SpaceX Starship lander on the surface of the moon.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• The lander is not designed to survive the frigid dark lunar night.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2020
• The two companies are sparring over a deal to build a moon lander for a trip planned for 2024.
  — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 18 July 2021
• India isn't far behind, with the goal of having a lander touch down on Aug. 23.
  — Tom Costello, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The rover and lander will both relay data from the surface to the Tianwen-1 orbiter, which will send it back to Earth.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
• Firefly also shared the lander’s first two images of the moon.
  — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Feb. 2025
• Two of the four will transfer from Orion into the Starship lander, and make their way down to the moon’s south pole.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• The lander launched in 2018 and used seismic imaging to probe the planet’s mantle, crust, and core.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024
• Once that is complete, the top of half of the lander will blast back off into space as soon as Thursday.
  — Kenneth Chang, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• This caused major setbacks to the construction of both the rover and the Griffin lander.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
• In the spring, the company failed to win a contract from NASA to build a lander to take astronauts back to the surface of the moon.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• The ascent from the moon and the docking of Columbia and the lunar lander proved flawless.
  — Richard Goldstein, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• Aldrin and Neil Armstrong touched down on the moon with less than 20 seconds of fuel left in their lander.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• Cassini dropped a lander on Titan, the alien world most like Earth, with vast plains and canyonlands.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
• India’s Pragyan rover rolls down a ramp to the lunar surface in this video image from the Vikram lander.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2023
• Listen to the sounds of space rocks crashing into Mars, as recorded by the lander.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
• The lander had some human help in crafting its final missive.
  — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
• The successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025