NASA is fostering work on a student-built satellite that would orbit the Moon.

The American Student Moon Orbiter (ASMO) project is being spearheaded at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

ASMO officials are calling upon American university students and their faculty advisors to design, build, register, launch and operate the ASMO small spacecraft and its scientific payload. The student-built spacecraft could be launched to orbit the Moon in 2011 in tandem with a spacecraft being developed by European students under a companion program.

Roundtable talk on ASMO is slated for next month’s conference on small satellites that’s being held at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Anticipated appearances at the ASMO meeting includes special guest Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

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