Agena

[uh-jee-nuh]

A·ge·na

[uh-jee-nuh]
noun Rocketry.
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
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