Agena

[ uh-jee-nuh ]

noun

, Rocketry.

1. a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around Earth and send probes to the moon and other planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.

Example Sentences

But if centrists haven't backed down from their unsubtle efforts to derail the Biden agena, then it's time for progressives to make good on the "F around and find out" threat.

From Salon

He stood up waist-high from an open hatch in the Gemini 10 to take photographs of ultraviolet rays given off by stars, and he later carried out a spacewalk to retrieve a scientific device from the side of the Gemini 8 Agena.

From New York Times

They docked with an Agena rocket that had lifted off before them from Cape Canaveral, then fired its 16,000-pound thrust engine and reached an altitude of 475 miles, the farthest penetration of space that anyone had achieved at that time.

From New York Times

Their Gemini spacecraft remained linked with the Agena for more than 38 hours, in the first significant test of the docking technique to be employed by Columbia and Eagle.

From New York Times

The Gemini 10 astronauts carried out a second rendezvous when they came within a few inches of another Agena rocket, which had remained in space after the Gemini 8 mission.

From New York Times