lander
IPA: ɫˈændɝ
noun
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- A surname.
- A small unincorporated community in Warren County, Pennsylvania
- A city, the county seat of Fremont County, Wyoming.
- A municipality of Venezuela
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Examples of "lander" in Sentences
- Just to the southeast of Lander is Patsaev.
- Landers successfully completed the mission.
- The Phoenix lander landed very far to the north.
- The lander will transfer the rover to the Martian surface.
- The lander probably still rests on the surface of Venus today.
- It is used to calibrate the Pancam cameras of the Mars landers.
- Basically, the camera was mounted to another part of the lander.
- Because of the demise of the lander, the rover never saw action.
- The first launch would be for the orbiter, the second for the lander.
- Now, we are trying to check the connectivity with landers to communicate.
- One thing to figure is that with a 2500 kg payload, the dry mass of the lander is around 1500 kg.
- If you use our metric of 80% of the lander is reused, (1200 kg per flight or 3600 kg per year), you now have 1.5 "free" payloads per year.
- No Mars lander is currently planned to follow the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, and the orbiter previously slated for 2013 has now been postponed.
- Ironically, the way these slides show a charred and swept soil under the lander is quite correct, and - not surprisingly - pretty much exactly what actual Apollo photos document.
- If development money for a heavy lift vehicle or a lunar lander is cut, delayed or otherwise diverted we'll know the true nature of the Administrations commitment to space exploration.
- For instance, they say the capsule lander is better than the lifting body lander, and in the same breath they say the capsule lander can't meet the mission requirements because the parachutes can't take the weight.????
- Whether your lander is in cherry condition and you just want to keep it running well, or you have one you found covered in dust in a warehouse in New Mexico, this manual can help you get the most out of your 1969 series lunar lander.
- The team from the University of Bristol, Oceanlab at the University of Aberdeen, and the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton used a vehicle called a lander to record spontaneous light displays or bioluminescence produced by small abyssal creatures which were feeding at bait attached to the lander.