Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor

Clad in pressurized spacesuits, two Russian cosmonauts headed outside the International Space Station on Wednesday and hand-released four tiny CubeSats and installed hardware for a German experiment to track animal migration. The 7-hour, 46-minute excursion by Russian flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev began at 1617 GMT (12:17 p.m. EDT) as they opened the hatch to the station’s Pirs airlock. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 16)