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Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor

August 15, 2018 Stephen Clark

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.