sputnik

IPA: spˈʌtnɪk

(historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.
(dated) Any artificial satellite.
An adenovirus viral vector vaccine for COVID-19, developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia.
A village in Pechengsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
Alternative letter-case form of sputnik. [(historical) Any of a series of Soviet robotic space satellites, especially the first one in 1957.]

Examples of "sputnik" in Sentences

He declared this to be the nation's sputnik moment.
The sputnik moment is a moment of incarnation and intention.
"militarization of space" then you might have as well called sputnik militarization of space.
Someone discovered that the code word was "sputnik" and when applied to each line gives us the decode.
"sputnik" "If Akshay removes his wig" "Hello! this is Akki's REAL hair … get ur fats right before commenting ..."
To quote my sadly anonymous podcaster: "the future is not something to be afraid of; it is after all a sputnik moment."
And yes, I highly recommend it and think it's well worth your time and money and that you will find a lot of stuff to chuckle over, sputnik jokes aside.
When CNN’s Jeff Greenfield assured the crowd, “I haven’t planted a skutnik here,” I stopped him: I had heard of a sputnik, the Russian word for the first Soviet satellite, but what was a skutnik?