Spacewalkers fling satellites, install bird trackers
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August 16, 2018
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking cosmonauts flung tiny satellites into orbit Wednesday and set up an antenna for tracking birds on Earth.
Russian Sergey Prokopyev released four research satellites by hand. The first mini satellite tumbled away as the International Space Station soared 250 miles above Illinois. By the time the fourth one was on its way 14 minutes later, the station was almost to Spain. Two were the size of a tissue box, while the other two were longer.
With that quickly behind them, Prokopyev and Oleg Artemyev spent the next several hours installing the antenna for a Ge...
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