16 Aug
2017
16 Aug
'17
5:36 p.m.
This twitter post says that several small satellites will be hand-deployed during the Russian EVA tomorrow:
https://twitter.com/RF2Space/status/897841299377709057
Anyone know the details? I assume they would want to release them "towards earth" and not in the other direction so that they would have a lower orbit than the station and not run into them at some point. Do they just toss them out?