Cosmonauts Set To Launch Satellite From Iss

NASA-TV will broadcast the spacewalk of two cosmonauts Wednesday, August 3, 2011 launching the micro-satellite prototype, known as ARISSAT-1, beginning at 10:30 AM EDT. The spacewalks of Russian flight engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev will collect a faulty antennae, move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deploying the prototype micro-satellite.

The micro-satellite prototype, known as ARISSAT-1 has been developed in conjunction with Radio Amateur Satellite Corp. (AMSAT), the NASA Office of Education ISS National Lab Project, and the Amateur Radio on ISS (ARISS) working group. The 57-lb. educational satellite that COMMEMORATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT - YURI GAGARIN'S single orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

The satellite was designed to work with up to four student experiments, and will enable them to send information from space via radio signal. The satellite will also act as a Morse code tracking for "HAM" radio operators world-wide. More from SPACE DAILY AND NASA-TV.

Source: project-ufo.blogspot.com