wither in the light

Suppose you're an amateur radio buff and you've built a satellite but you need to find some way to protect it while it's out in space. You could go to all the trouble of engineering the radiation shields and thermal protection... or you could just ask the folks on the International Space Station to stuff it into an extra spacesuit and kick it out the airlock. A very ingenious solution. I love the idea of this human-shaped satellite cartwheeling through space, beaming happy little radio packets to the industrious people on the ground.