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A•ge•na



Pronunciation: (u-jē'nu), [key]
n. 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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