How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s not the first time that a Mars lander has run into ground resistance.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Tianwen-1 mission—composed of an orbiter, a lander and a rover—is there, too.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
• Work on the lander was halted while the lawsuit was in court, but is scheduled to start again Monday.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Nov. 2021
• 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
• When Vescovo set off to return to the surface, the lander carrying the watch failed to respond to the call to follow the sub.
  — Jeremy White, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
• 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
• And the tiny engine on the lunar lander could have failed, leaving him marooned far from home.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022
• 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
• The Griffin lander will touch down on Mons Mouton near the western rim of Nobile crater close to the lunar south pole.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
• The lander deployed a small rover to drive across the lunar surface, returning the first detailed measurements of soil composition near the Moon's south pole.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024