I'm John Matt. So behind the black, Bob Zimmerman is here. We're going to India. The Spadex

Mission. What is that, Bob? India, of course, is trying to develop its own manned and space

state man program, as well as build its own space station. So one of the skills you need to have is to be able to do undocking, rendezvous and docking

of spacecraft, preferably nowadays autonomous and robotics so you don't need people necessarily

to do it.

And the Spadex mission in India was launched earlier this year.

It was involved a target vehicle and a chase vehicle, and they will put in orbit, and they

successfully completed a docking.

The original plan, which is good, they learned how to do a docking and demonstrated they

could do it.

The original plan was then to undock the two spacecraft, and they'd go off their separate

ways to do orbital type research and other kind of technology tests.

The head of India Space Agency's ICER has said, no, we got lots of fuel on these two crafts.

We have a lot of, there's a lot of things you need to learn how to do in terms of docking.

I want you to do more docking tests.

So they undocked, and they've now successfully completed a second autonomous docking in orbit,

and they did it from a different manner.

And in between, they did what they call a rolling experience experiment,

just to test maneuvering these vehicles in space from the ground.

And so they've completed a second docking.

They still have about half the fuel on these crafts.

So there's still discussion.

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