Bird with ICARUS Transmitter (IMAGE)

Yale University

Bird with ICARUS Transmitter

Caption

This bird is one of the eventual thousands of small animals that will be sending packets of data up to the newly installed ICARUS initiative antennae on the International Space Station via the tiny transmitter that it wears like a backpack.

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Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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