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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lander \Land"er\, n.
One who lands, or makes a landing. ``The lander in a lonely isle.''
--Tennyson.(Mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body. 2 A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore. 3 (context slang English) An illegal immigrant.
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Wikipedia
A lander is a spacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body. Lander means the soft landing after that probe stays active while impact probe (as a rule, preceding the lander) just achieves the surface by hard landing with crush.
For bodies with atmospheres, the landing occurs after atmospheric re-entry (or less precisely for other planets, atmospheric reentry) and the lander is first a re-entry vehicle. In these cases landers may employ parachutes to slow down and to maintain a low terminal velocity. Sometimes small landing rockets are fired just before impact to reduce the impact velocity. Landing may be accomplished by controlled descent and setdown on landing gear, with the possible addition of a post-landing attachment mechanism for celestial bodies with low gravity. Some missions (since, as example, Luna 9 and Mars Pathfinder) used inflatable airbags to cushion the lander's impact rather than a more traditional landing gear.
When a high velocity impact is planned not for just achieving the surface but for study of consequences of impact, the spacecraft is called an impactor.
Several terrestrial bodies have been subject of lander and/or impactor exploration: among them Earth's Moon, the planets Venus and Mars, the Saturn moon Titan, the asteroids and comets. Of the inner Solar System planets, Mercury is the only one that is yet to be visited by a lander.
Länder (singular Land) or Bundesländer (singular Bundesland) is the name for (federal) states in German-speaking countries. It may more specifically refer to:
- States of Austria, the 9 federal subdivisions of Austria
- States of Germany, the 16 federal subdivisions of Germany
Lander is a lunar crater that is located just to the north-northeast of the prominent Tsiolkovskiy, on the far side of the Moon.
Attached to the northeastern rim of Lander is Volkov J, which is joined with Volkov to the north. Just to the southeast of Lander is Patsaev. Lander cannot be seen directly from the Earth, and must be observed from orbit.This is a worn and eroded crater formation, with features that have become poorly defined and softened due to subsequent impacts and possibly some overlap of ejecta from Tsiolkovskiy and other sources. The inner rim is wider and has a gentler slope along the eastern side. The interior floor is relatively level, but contains some low rises. Only a few tiny craterlets dot the rim and interior of this formation.
Lander may refer to:
Lander is an action shooter game developed in-house at the Manchester office of Psygnosis. It was released for Microsoft Windows in Spring 1999 and published under the Psygnosis label shortly before the Manchester office was closed and the Psygnosis label was fully absorbed into Sony. Lander was inspired by the classic game Thrust (and to a lesser extent Lunar Lander), and featured similar gameplay of controlling a ship with realistic thrust and inertia, but with a new 3D game environment. Critically, the game was badly received by most critics, but had occasional highly positive reviews by those who had found the control system to be rewarding rather than frustrating.
Lander is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anton Lander (born 1991), Swedish ice hockey player
- Bernard Lander (1915–2010), Founder of Touro College
- Bruce Lander (born 1946), Judge of the Federal Court of Australia
- David Lander (born 1947), American actor and author
- Eric Lander (born 1957), American professor of biology
- Frederick W. Lander (1822–1862), American engineer
- Harald Lander (1910–1971), Danish balletmaster and husband of Margot Lander
- Henry W. Lander, American lawyer and politician
- John Lander (explorer) (1807–1839), Cornish explorer
- John St Helier Lander (1868–1944), British artist
- John Lander (rower) (1907–1941), British rower; gold medalist at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Johnny Lander, footballer
- Leena Lander (born 1955), Finnish writer
- Margot Lander (1910–1961), Norwegian-born prima ballerina
- Morgan Lander (born 1982), Canadian heavy metal singer
- Nicholas Lander (born 1952), Restaurant writer and consultant
- Richard Lemon Lander (1804–1834), Cornish explorer of western Africa
- Sir Stephen Lander (born 1947), British security/anti-crime official
- Tim Lander (born 1938), Canadian poet
Usage examples of "lander".
We know that once the Landers were on the ground, they came together, kinda merged into larger Amalgam Creatures.
A slice of hull running almost nose to tail had been cut away, exposing housing, cargo space, docking for a Lander now destroyed, thruster plates, and the hyperdrive motor housing.
Carl Sagan and Hal Mazursky, the superbrain, bit their lips, and white-haired Jim Martin crossed his fingers and gave the signal to detach the small lander from the bigger orbiter which had brought it safely across so many millions of miles.
By the time the landers and tenar had slowed and reoriented their weapons arrays onto the head it had risen up until halfway out of the water.
This sort of difference has been noted before in the saucers, called tenar by the Posleen, and in weapons design up to the design of the landers.
Their two largest landers could hoist a thousand tonnes from surface to orbit.
I called Mark Lander to see if he could send anyone our way before he left for France but his two-year-old was screaming like a banshee because she snuck a gob of wasabi out of his take-out sushi tray.
The commander of our lander on Wolfbane told me that nuke missed you by the thinnest of hairs.
Rick stowed the probe in the equipment bay and followed the two women into the lander, but it had even less room than the command module so he stayed in the tunnel, feeling a bit disoriented as he looked down from above on the angular instrument panel and flight controls.
Walking across the soggy ash, Longo noted shadowy figures standing guard at the foot of the landers.
Lander, and you got the misbegotten notion in your head to make such an unlawful sword, would you not keep its existence a secret?
The lander, suspended beneath its blue parafoil, had come bellying down out of the sky, crashing through the trees with abandon, and had left a clear trail of its glide-down in snapped trunks, crushed branches and ripped-up bits of parafoil.
When we reach the periapsis at seventeen-hundred hours, Landers One and Two will be launched.
Until, she noted, his lander departed the peripatetic vessel to alight at Caria Spaceport.
The other men had retired to another room where they had immediately begun to play cards, watched by two silent dark landers The dark landers had looked Andris over very carefully when he arrived, and he had studied them with equal interest, but Thrid had not bothered to introduce them.