{"id":16585,"date":"2018-08-16T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:58:21","slug":"video-cosmonauts-throw-student-cubesats-into-orbit-during-iss-spacewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16585","title":{"rendered":"Video: Cosmonauts throw student CubeSats into orbit during ISS spacewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday,\u00a0Russian flight engineers\u00a0Oleg\u00a0Artemyev\u00a0and Sergey\u00a0Prokopyev\u00a0made a spacewalk outside the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a>. \u00a0Their initial tasks included hurling four student-built\u00a0smallsats\u00a0into orbit:\u00a0Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor \u2013 Spaceflight Now<\/a><\/p>\n

The spacewalkers\u2019 first task was the deployment \u2014 by hand \u2014\u00a0of four CubeSats built by Russian students.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cosmonauts carried with them two Tanyusha satellites, each about the size of a small toaster oven, built by students at\u00a0Southwestern State University with demo payloads to study spacecraft autonomy technology and to measure the vacuum of space. Another pair of SiriusSat CubeSats, assembled by Russian schoolchildren and equipped with particle detectors, was also with the cosmonauts.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prokopyev tossed the four nanosatellites into space by hand just outside the Pirs airlock, using a manual release method used on previous Russian spacewalks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a video of the hand-tossed orbital deployments plus views of the tiny satellites drifting away from the station:<\/p>\n