The MeerKAT array of sixty-four 13m antennas, in the Karoo region of South Africa, is being extended with the addition of fourteen 15m antennas, with this MeerKAT Extension project being a collaboration between the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), the Max Planck Society (MPG) in Germany and the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Italy. At the same time, the SKAO is starting to install its own 15m dishes on the site, and the image above shows the first antenna, SKA001, with visiting astronomers for scale! During verification and testing the 21cm neutral hydrogen (HI) line has been detected from the Galaxy in autocorrelations in a drift scan. Pointing checks and performance testing is ongoing.  Ultimately, the original 64 MeerKAT dishes and the 14 MeerKAT Extension dishes will become part of the SKA-Mid telescope with the SKAO antennas making up the remainder. The design baseline for SKA-Mid has 197 antennas with around 50% of the dishes in the 2-km-wide core area, and with the remaining dishes are spaced along three spiral arms providing baselines out to 150 km.