Zond


one of a series of soviet sp-ce probes that photographed the moon and returned to earth.
noun
any of a series of unmanned soviet sp-cecraft, first launched in 1964 as interplanetary sp-ce probes, the most successful of which, zond 3, sent back photographs of the hidden side of the moon in 1965

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