Sentence examples for designed to touch down from inspiring English sources

The spacecraft carried a lander, Philae, designed to touch down on the comet, but Philae's landing did not go quite as planned.

Similar to SpaceX, the CST-100 is designed to touch down on land.

But the craft was also carrying a tiny lander, the British Beagle-2, which was designed to touch down and search for signs of life.

Never designed to touch down anywhere, NEAR-Shoemaker will be pulled to a final embrace with the 34-kilometer-long asteroid just before Valentine's Day, hitting the surface at the speed of a brisk walk.

But not everyone was convinced it would be possible to put Philae on the new comet, because the lander was designed to touch down on a significantly smaller comet with even less gravity.

Shares of the XRT, an exchange-traded fund designed to replicate the performance of the S&P Retail Select Industry Index, fell as much as 2.04% to touch down at an intraday low of $46.48.

"I needed to touch down with the nose slightly up.

Wilkinson kicks the penalty to touch down the right.

This time he managed to touch down in driving rain.

But, Bashoor said, the funnel never seemed to touch down.

In contrast, the Rosetta orbiter was designed to fly around 67P, not touch down on the surface.