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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.


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