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lunik Astronautics.|ˈl(j)uːnɪk|
Also Lunik.
[f. L. lūn-a moon + -nik, after sputnik, or ad. Russ. lúnnik (similarly f. Russ. luná moon).]
Any of a series of Russian spacecraft sent to or close by the moon.
1959Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 16/6 The Russians had a word for the moon rocket soon enough: Lunik. Unlike Sputnik the word was not official. Ibid., The only vocal demonstrations..were from the generation still young enough to qualify for..trips..aboard Luniks. 1959H. Nicolson Let. 14 Sept. (1968) 370, I hate the lunik for having bumped into the radiant moon. 1961Ann. Reg. 1960 388 The Russians attempted no further ‘lunik’ shots. 1964Yearbk. Astron. 1965 70 The Russians se[n]t up their Moon probe Lunik III, which represented the greatest triumph in space research up to that moment. [1966Ann. dell'Istituto Univ. Orient., Sezione Slava IX. 213 From the evidence presented above the fact seems to emerge that, even if lunnik was coined in Moscow on the morning of 3 January 1959, it was simultaneously fabricated in the West.] 1967Punch 28 June 937/1 The Luniks were soon joined by American Surveyors and Lunar Orbiters and by the end of 1966, by no stretch of poetic imagination could the moon be described as companionless. |