: 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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Cassini’s discovery of evidence for a global liquid ocean on the moon makes an Enceladus lander a high priority.
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Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2024
Blue Origin again protested a decision that favored SpaceX in 2021, when Bezos' company objected to the award of a NASA contract to SpaceX for a crewed lunar lander for the agency's Artemis program.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
But Intuitive Machines' lander is hardly the first to make the attempt.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
Most recently, a private lunar lander called Odysseus successfully landed on the moon in the first U.S. mission to the moon since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1972.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024
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Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2024
Blue Origin again protested a decision that favored SpaceX in 2021, when Bezos' company objected to the award of a NASA contract to SpaceX for a crewed lunar lander for the agency's Artemis program.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
But Intuitive Machines' lander is hardly the first to make the attempt.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
Most recently, a private lunar lander called Odysseus successfully landed on the moon in the first U.S. mission to the moon since NASA ended the Apollo program in 1972.
—Devika Rao, theweek, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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