lander
Sign in to savespacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body
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It sits within the topics Landers (spacecraft), Soviet inventions and Spaceflight concepts.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
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- spacecraft
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- Apollo 16 LM.jpg
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- Commons category
- Landers (spacecraft)
- topic's main category
- Category:Landers (spacecraft)
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A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, then comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth. In contrast to an impact probe, which makes a hard landing that damages or destroys the probe upon reaching the surface, a lander makes a soft landing after which the probe remains functional.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lander” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.