sputnik
noun/ˈspʌtnɪk/, /ˈspʊtnɪk/
/ˈspʌtnɪk/, /ˈspʊtnɪk/
(from Russian)- a satellite of the type that was put into space by the Soviet UnionTopics Spacec2Word OriginRussian, literally ‘fellow traveller’.
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