How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

noun
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  • Celestis said the rocket would launch into space and send a lunar lander toward the moon.
    — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The samples will then be shuttled by the same rover or a robotic helicopter to a lander with a rocket.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • This caused major setbacks to the construction of both the rover and the Griffin lander.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • Because there’s hardly any weather on the planet, and few major marsquakes that could harm the samples, the cache should remain untouched until the lander comes.
    — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Unlike the Apollo command module, for instance, the Orion capsule doesn’t come with a lander.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The plan would be for a four-person Orion crew to dock in space with a SpaceX lander to ferry two astronauts to the moon’s surface for nearly a week.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This will allow astronauts to explore the lunar environment from the safety of a lander on earlier missions, and from the base camp on later missions.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 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 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
  • 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
  • Listen to the sounds of space rocks crashing into Mars, as recorded by the lander.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The lunar lander is scheduled to launch by rocket at 3:50 a.m.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • Some of the early missions – the Viking landers– had the equipment to measure the composition of the planet’s atmosphere.
    — James Day, University Of California, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2024

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