English: The reconstructed deployment of the YES2 tether, i.e., the trajectory of the Fotino capsule in relationship to the Foton spacecraft. Orbital motion is to the left. The Earth is down. After the first stage (3.5 km), controlled to the vertical, the deployment was stopped and the tether remained in a pendulum motion of about 10 degrees amplitude. Deployment then continued to an angle of about 45 degrees and a length of 32 km, and a swing was introduced to help deorbit Fotino. A small peak on Mount Everest is shown several times for scale. The Fotino was released at the vertical, 32 km below Foton, about 240 km above the surface of the Earth, and made a re-entry towards Kazakhstan.