iss056e139457 (Aug. 15, 2018) — Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev hand-deploys one of four nano-satellites just outside of the Pirs docking compartment airlock during a spacewalk that lasted 7 hours 46 minutes. Fellow cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (out of frame) joined Prokopyev during the spacewalk which also saw the installation of the Icarus animal-tracking experiment and the retrieval of a materials exposure experiment on the Russian segment of the International Space Station.
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