 Welcome to your Tuesday Space Pod, and Mike, we've been talking a little bit about what you jokingly called LEGO satellites. Tell me more about what's going on with the International Space Station and these things. So yeah, at the International Space Station last week, some astronauts linked together some LEGO satellites, or rather some modular satellites from a company called NOVA Works. And with these, it was a very interesting test, and it might be a very radical new approach to satellite design and manufacturing. So instead of fitting spacecraft components into some sort of spacecraft bus that, you know, companies have been doing for decades, NOVA Works invented what they're calling hyper-integrated satellites, or high-sats. They're identical 7 kilogram modules that have everything that you would need to function, including communications, you know, being able to point your spacecraft where you need to, power, data processing, and propulsion as well. You can see those little nubs sticking out, some of them are for connections, and some of them have RCS with them, so that's really cool. And what they can do with these is they can put together any number of these high-sats that they want. They measure 20 by 10 centimeters, so a little bit bigger than a CubeSat, but they snap together just like LEGOs, and you can put them together in all sorts of different ways. And what they did, after years of developing this and ground testing, plus two years of storage on the International Space Station, this past week, on October 25th, astronauts assembled a small satellite by snapping together six of these high-sats that also had two deployable solar arrays, which were built by a company called Pumpkin, and they also had an electro-optical imager that was a NASA-sponsored mission called the Satellite Initial Proofs and Lessons, or the acronym for that is simple, just a simple test. Of course. The astronauts, after they put that together on October 25th, they actually launched it from the ISS on October 27th, using NanoRack's CABER microsatellite deployer, which provided a key test of how well these high-sats actually functioned as a single unit. Now DARPA wants to launch 14 of these high-sats next year and enable further development of their Phoenix program, which would have low-cost innovative space technologies, especially looking at having reusable technologies for satellites. And lots of really cool ideas could come from this. I mean, there's the unit itself that they deployed. And so far, on the NovaWorks Twitter, they've been reporting that it's been healthy and that things have gone really well with this. So this could be a very cool, very innovative new way to put satellites together and kind of build custom-made spacecraft for whatever you want and have a lot of redundancy as well. That's really funny. I love it. The chat room is actually saying the Borgs started this way. And I'm just wondering if that means we can get spaceship, spaceship, spaceship out of this. That's just, you know, if I may. Well, thank you, Mike. Very much so appreciated. And if you're interested in any of these sorts of things and other spacey things, feel free to subscribe to our channel where you'll get videos like this and so much more. And also join us live every Saturday at 1800 UTC.