How to Use lander in a Sentence

lander

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  • 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
  • The image shows that a ramp on the lander has been extended to the surface of Mars.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Half of each rover would anchor to the rim, then belay its partner down to the main lander on the crater floor.
    — Chris Wright, Wired, 15 June 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
  • Their lunar lander did end up making it to the landing on the moon in February.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, its lander became the first American vehicle to touch the lunar surface in more than 50 years.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2025

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