Instrument spinning a laboratory animal in astronomical experiment (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A + LAB (short for laboratory), reversed (spinning), then LAIKA (animal in astronomical experiment: a dog that travelled on the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 2 craft during early experiments in space flight). We have to separate the obvious “laboratory animal” to make this one work. Russian musical instrument, like a triangular three-stringed guitar.