How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

noun

• 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
• An artist's impression of a SpaceX Starship lander on the surface of the moon.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• India isn't far behind, with the goal of having a lander touch down on Aug. 23.
  — Tom Costello, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The researchers used landers that carried dead fish as bait; deep-sea crustaceans ate the bait, and the snailfish came to eat the crustaceans.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• Which country looked to land on the moon the world’s first commercial lunar lander? 10.
  — CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
• Ground controllers were able to power it up Wednesday morning and eject it to about 13 feet from the lander.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• In a stroke of luck, the whirling column of dust blew directly over the lander in 2021 when its microphone was on.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
• Rovers and landers are no strangers to the risks that the Martian environment poses.
  — Mengchen Zhang, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
• Spacecraft, like the Viking lander, have also made it to the ground and provided a close-up view of frost on the Martian surface.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2023
• With its four legs extended, the lander is more than 7 feet (2.3 meters) tall.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 11 Dec. 2022
• India landed on the moon in August 2023, while a Russian lander failed that same month.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
• The rocket will first dispatch a lunar lander to conduct studies of the moon.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• The lander, which is roughly the size of an SUV, is also carrying a smaller rover.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• At that point, the lander's solar cells will no longer be able to generate power and the spacecraft will shut down.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Astrobotic is building the lander and says its first lander is ready to go.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• Mission controllers managed to boot up the laser, which allowed the lander to finish its trip.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2024
• Controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo, expressionless, as the minutes went by with still no word from the lander.
  — Marcia Dunn, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• Chandrayaan-2’s lander crashed four years ago due to a technical glitch during the final leg of its journey.
  — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
• At each site, Titan will drill into the surface and remove samples less than a gram in size to bring inside the lander.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 20 Mar. 2023
• The fault was ultimately traced to a software glitch in the lander’s braking system.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 July 2023
• Seconds later, the lander’s six feet crunched into the dark soil of Malapert A, a crater nestled deep in the moon’s southern latitudes.
  — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• And the Japanese space agency is hoping its robotic lander, which launched on Sept. 7, would touch down on Jan. 19.
  — Christian Davenport The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• The company plans to complete the integration of the engines onto the lander at the launch site in Florida.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2023
• The same could be said for the lunar lander built by the private Japanese space company ispace.
  — Mariel Borowitz, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2023
• The space agency has hired SpaceX to adapt Starship as a lunar lander to take two astronauts to the moon’s south polar regions.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024