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Detailed explanation-1: -Docking refers to connecting of two flying objects in space, either to transfer men or material from one to the other, or two join two structures to make a bigger one. India’s space agency, ISRO, plans space docking experiment (SPADEX) next year, the agency’s Chairman, Kailasavadivoo Sivan, told Business Line today.

Detailed explanation-2: -SPADEX or Space Docking Experiment is a twin spacecraft mission being developed by Indian Space Research Organisation to mature technologies related to orbital rendezvous, docking, formation flying, with scope of applications in human spaceflight, in-space satellite servicing and other proximity operations.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 2022, ISRO plans to launch EOS-04 and EOS-6 on board PSLV, EOS02 on the maiden flight of SSLV, and carry out many test flights for the Crew Escape System of Gaganyaan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Isro is planning to launch the Aditya Sun mission in the early months of 2023. The spacecraft will be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million km from our planet.

Detailed explanation-5: -(idiom, course, slang) A sexual practice in which one person excretes directly into the vagina of another.