A group of University of Central Florida students is designing a satellite that will likely be launched into outer space. But this is not just any satellite — this satellite is full of it.

“We’re trying to find an easier method or a better way of decomposing human waste, either on the moon, on Mars or during spaceflight,” said Thomas Byrd, the project leader and a senior aerospace engineering major. “That’s the premise behind the payload and our purpose.”

The group has decided to approach this problem on the grandest scale, by launching a satellite into space, complete with a payload of human fecal matter.

It started out as a senior engineering project. Byrd’s team of UCF students designed a small “pico” satellite for launch as part of California Polytechnic State University’s “CubeSat” project, designed to provide an affordable means for universities to conduct experiments in space.