Students can provide their name, school and hometown via the web site.
The submissions will be compiled onto a small compact disc and rocketed into space with the satellite. It's being designed and built by students in the new MSU Space Science and Engineering Lab in Bozeman. The lab gives students hands-on experience building inexpensive space hardware and may help fill an employment gap in the space technology industry created by a generation of engineers reaching retirement age, said MSU research professor and lab director David Klumpar. The 60 MSU graduate and undergraduates students have until July to finish and test the satellite before sending it to a private launch provider in Ogden, Utah. In November, a Russian Dnepr rocket will carry the satellites into space.