Spacewalkers Flinging Satellites, Installing Bird Trackers

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk Wednesday to fling tiny satellites into orbit and install an antenna for tracking birds on Earth.
Soon after leaving the International Space Station, Sergey Prokopyev released all four research satellites by hand.
“I’m ready for the launch,” Prokopyev told Russian flight controllers near Moscow.
The first satellite tumbled away as the space station soared 250 miles above Illinois. By the time the fourth one w