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soft-ˈland, v. Astronautics.
Also softland.
[Back-formation from next.]
trans. and intr. To land slowly without serious damage, esp. on another planet or a satellite.
trans.1960Aeroplane XCIX. 540 (caption) The Surveyor-type probe..should be capable of soft-landing between 100 and 300 lb. of scientific equipment on the Moon. 1960Times Mag. (Seattle) 29 May 22 The first lunar vehicle may be a small robot to be soft-landed on the moon within the next five years. 1966Times 7 Apr. 9/3 This was to have been the final test flight before the United States attempts to softland a real Surveyor space⁓craft on the moon. 1967New Scientist 1 June 549/3 The balloon itself was constructed of fine polythene and helium-filled... It was soft-landed and recovered for further use. 1970Guardian 21 Sept. 3/7 Russia today soft-landed its Luna 16 unmanned spacecraft on the moon's barren Sea of Fertility.
intr.1964Yearbk. Astron. 1965 135 The LEM will detach from the orbiting parent and soft-land on the Moon. 1967New Scientist 3 Aug. 242/2 Surveyor III, which soft-landed on 20 April this year returned over 6000 TV pictures. 1969Daily Tel. 18 July 1 Reports from Moscow..say that Luna 15 is ready ‘to soft-land on the moon today’ and collect moon dust. 1975Times 7 Apr. 6/1 A manned Soyuz spacecraft..soft-landed southwest of the western Siberian town of Gorno-Altaysk.
So soft-ˈlanded ppl. a.; soft-ˈlander, a vehicle that is capable of making or has made a soft landing.
1958Proc. Lunar & Planetary Exploration Colloquium July 13/1 Would you..talk about the design and weight distribution of this soft-landed payload? 1961Aeroplane C. 510/3 Russia's long-range space programme is said to include sending two spaceships to the Moon by 1967. They would be preceded by unmanned ‘soft-landers’ depositing supplies and propellants. 1966Guardian 28 Dec. 7/1 Luna-13..is returning more information than any other soft lander, whether Russian or American. 1969Nature 12 July 123/1 Between 1966 and 1968, seven Surveyor softlanders were launched which among other things tested the surface strength [of the moon]. 1971Ibid. 26 Nov. 211/2 Such data will be of value in interpreting the findings of soft-landed spacecraft on other planets. 1977A. 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. |