soft-lander

soft-lander
soft-land·er

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  • soft-lander — noun see soft land …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • soft-lander — noun see soft land …   Useful english dictionary

  • soft-land — soft lander, n. /sawf land , soft /, v.t. 1. to cause to land slowly and without jarring impact: to soft land the module on the planet s surface. v.i. 2. to land slowly and without jarring impact: The craft will soft land on the moon. [1955 60] * …   Universalium

  • soft-land — verb Etymology: back formation from soft landing Date: 1960 transitive verb to cause to make a soft landing on a celestial body (as the moon) intransitive verb to make a soft landing • soft lander noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • lander — [lan′dər] n. a spacecraft designed to separate from an orbiting spacecraft and make a soft landing on a planet, moon, etc …   English World dictionary

  • Lander (spacecraft) — A lander is a spacecraft which descends toward and comes to rest on the surface of an astronomical body. For bodies with atmospheres, the landing is called re entry and the lander descends as a re entry vehicle. In these cases landers may employ… …   Wikipedia

  • Soft landing — A soft landing in the business cycle is the process of an economy shifting from growth to slow growth to potentially flat, as it approaches but avoids a recession. It is usually caused by government attempts to slow down inflation. [… …   Wikipedia

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  • Spacecraft — Spaceship redirects here. For other uses, see Spaceship (disambiguation). More than 100 Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft (TMA version shown) have flown since 1967, originally for a Soviet manned lunar program, but currently supporting the… …   Wikipedia

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