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Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor

August 15, 2018

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.