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- noun Plural form of
lander .
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Examples
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When we lose a space shuttle full of people, it’s a national tragedy and shuts down the program for a while. 5 years now for the mars landers is amazing, useful, and fairly cheap.
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Until then the Shuttle C is your heavy lift and the landers are the large payloads that your proposed architecture lifts to LEO.
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Robotic "landers" operated by Aberdeen University have filmed fish at a record-breaking depth of nearly 8km.
The Guardian World News Ian Sample 2011
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The Ares could launch massive hydrogen and oxygen fuel tankers into Earth and lunar orbit for reusable manned OTVs and lunar landers.
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Missions like the space station, Hubble, the mars orbiters and landers, they all had to be sized to fit on the launch systems that existed.
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Because it wouldn't need giant rockets, it could be relatively small watch film of the Apollo landers taking off from the moon to see what I mean.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do? Chris Weigant 2011
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Because it wouldn't need giant rockets, it could be relatively small watch film of the Apollo landers taking off from the moon to see what I mean.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- What Would Ronald Reagan Do? Chris Weigant 2011
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But there will still be a significant need for robotic landers and surface systems.
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The word went out among the back-to-the-landers, and Dave was besieged.
Nick Rosen: How Cannabis Saved the Planet (by Funding the Solar Industry) Nick Rosen 2010
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The word went out among the back-to-the-landers, and Dave was besieged.
Nick Rosen: How Cannabis Saved the Planet (by Funding the Solar Industry) Nick Rosen 2010
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