LANDER (lander)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: lander   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lander mean? 

• LANDER (noun)
  The noun LANDER has 2 senses:

1. a town in central Wyoming

2. a space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet

  Familiarity information: LANDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in central Wyoming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Lander" is a part of...):

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A space vehicle that is designed to land on the moon or another planet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lander" is a kind of...):

ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)

Derivation:

land (reach or come to rest)

 Context examples 

After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet.

(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)

InSight's seismometer, which the lander placed on the planet's surface on Dec. 19, 2018, will enable scientists to gather similar data about Mars.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

The mission's team has been trying to coordinate cloud observations with NASA's InSight lander, located about 373 miles (600 kilometers) away, which recently took its own cloud images.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache, NASA)

NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

NASA's InSight lander will include a heat probe that will burrow down as far as 16 feet (5 meters) below the Martian surface.

(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)

The project with PTScientists in Germany would use a 4G network to send high-definition information from rovers back to a lunar lander, which would then be able to communicate it back to Earth.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

In October, the Mothership Hayabusa 2 will drop a lander known as MASCOT followed by another ‘hopper’ rover, Minerva-II2, in 2019.

(First Ever Video of Asteroid Sent Back to Earth by Japanese Rovers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The rover drove off its lander’s ramp and onto the lunar surface late Thursday, about 12 hours after the Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first-ever landing on the moon’s far side.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

Rosetta's lander will obtain the first images taken from a comet's surface and will provide the first analysis of a comet's composition by drilling into the surface.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)