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agena

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My childish imagination pictures the proposal as the Agena target vehicle from the Gemini IX test flight.

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Synonym of Hadar (“the star Beta Centauri”).

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noun

Synonym of Hadar (“the star Beta Centauri”).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for agena.

noun

Synonym of Hadar (“the star Beta Centauri”).

Example sentences

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My childish imagination pictures the proposal as the Agena target vehicle from the Gemini IX test flight.

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This involved him spacewalking to an undocked Agena Target Vehicle while John Young was manually formation flying the Gemini spacecraft.

3

It wasn't even the probe that failed, but rather the Agena (second stage on top of the Atlas) that failed.

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They also didn't have particularly long mission durations (weeks, not years) and may have used their attached Agena stages for some reboosting.

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He saved Gemini 8 from near-disaster due to a stuck thruster during the first ever US docking in space (with an Agena target satellite).

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I am curious, what does Agena provide on that Lua does not?

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While we could theoretically glue enough rocket pieces together to perform missions the Space Shuttle (or Apollo and Gemini Agena for that matter) could accomplish, the fact is we do not have those capabilities ready to fly.

Quote examples

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For example, the AMD Phenom "Toliman" (X3) and "Kuma" (X2) CPUs are just "Agena" (X4) chips with 1 or 2 cores disabled.

Proper noun examples

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Old Lispers' eyes are stuck in a permanent roll position, like the Agena-Gemini 8 dock.

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Apparently at least one other launch vehicle was lost to under-pressurization, an Atlas-Agena, but it was during testing and only had a dummy payload.

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Slap a Centaur/Agena/etc on top and they can do a hell of a lot, and with a few added redundancies, they got men into space brilliantly.

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How do you use agena in a sentence?

My childish imagination pictures the proposal as the Agena target vehicle from the Gemini IX test flight.

What does agena mean?

Synonym of Hadar (“the star Beta Centauri”).

What part of speech is agena?

agena is commonly used as noun.