Lunik

British  

/ ˈluːnɪk /

noun

1. another name for Luna 2

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Example Sentences

In Kosice, he also will meet with the Roma population in the city's Lunik IX district, one of the largest concentrations in the country.

From Reuters

This photograph was taken by the Swedish photographer Åke Ericson in the Luník IX settlement in Košice, Slovakia, in 2013, and shows a young Romany boy, Juraj Mizigor, performing a backflip for his friends beneath a rundown tower block.

From The Guardian

With that, the first stage of their secret mission was complete: US intelligence had stolen – or, more accurately, borrowed – one of the Soviet Union’s most important technologies, a Lunik space vehicle, a key component in the Soviet Union’s race with the US to be the first to reach the moon.

From Newsweek

By the late 1950s, the Soviets were launching the missiles – with the Lunik stage on top – from Siberia; many of the initial attempts flopped, primarily because of failures to launch.

From Newsweek

And with that, the first stage of their until now secret mission was complete: American intelligence had stolen—or, more accurately, borrowed—one of the Soviet Union’s most important technologies, a Lunik space vehicle, which was a key component in its race with the United States to be the first to reach the moon.

From Newsweek