splashdown

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as in landing

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Recent Examples of splashdown Musk was talking specifically about Ship's performance on that suborbital jaunt, which ended with the upper stage's soft splashdown in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Western Australia. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026 SpaceX was more than lucky last Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas to an on-target, intact splashdown in a remote section of the Indian Ocean. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026 Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown — or rupturing in midair. — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 25 July 2026 Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown -- or rupturing in midair. — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for splashdown
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landing
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  • The Luna 23 spacecraft remained on the moon entirely, as it was damaged during landing and wasn't able to return a sample.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The Olympian looked confident, nailing her first two tumbling passes with almost no landing errors.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of landing

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