单词 | soft lander |
释义 | > as lemmassoft ˈlander soft ˈlander n. a space vehicle capable of making a soft landing, typically through the inclusion of retrorockets or parachutes in its design. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can land on a planet soft lander1960 lander1961 1960 Electr. Engin. Space Technol. (Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers) 5/2 A lunar hard-lander and a lunar soft-lander may use the same launch vehicle. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 20/1 The surface panoramas transmitted back to Earth from the Soviet soft-landers Veneras 9 and 10 show a barren landscape that contains both angular and rounded rocks. 2011 S. Hubbard Exploring Mars viii. 105 We pointed out concepts for hard landers, semihard landers, and soft landers, such as those in the Viking style with retro rockets. < as lemmas |
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