: 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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Blue Ghost Mission 2, scheduled for 2026, will also use Firefly’s Elytra Dark transfer vehicle and Blue Ghost lunar lander.
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Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
Draper Laboratories provides the launch and lander and is partnering with ispace with its APEX 1.0 lander which also will deploy relay satellites into orbit in order to allow communication with Earth from the far side of the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
For example, each site had to be located within 5 degrees of the lunar equator in order to expend the least amount of fuel and have no large hills or deep craters along the lander's approach, which could have confused its landing radar.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 July 2025
The last task of the rover will be to return to the lander, where a robotic arm will remove the sample container and transfer it to NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) – the first launch rocket ever to be sent to another planet.
—New Atlas, 19 July 2025
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Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 31 July 2025
Draper Laboratories provides the launch and lander and is partnering with ispace with its APEX 1.0 lander which also will deploy relay satellites into orbit in order to allow communication with Earth from the far side of the moon.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
For example, each site had to be located within 5 degrees of the lunar equator in order to expend the least amount of fuel and have no large hills or deep craters along the lander's approach, which could have confused its landing radar.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 20 July 2025
The last task of the rover will be to return to the lander, where a robotic arm will remove the sample container and transfer it to NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) – the first launch rocket ever to be sent to another planet.
—New Atlas, 19 July 2025
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“Lander.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lander. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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