Most six-year-olds are happy with a bit of prime fridge space for their drawings.
Bailey Brooks, from Lilla Creek Station, 400 kilometres south of Alice Springs, is getting her artwork plastered to the side of a rocket.
Her self-portrait on the balcony of her outback home, staring up into the starry night sky with a satellite dish on the roof, won NBN Co's national drawing competition.
The first national broadband network satellite will blast off from French Guiana on October 1.
A second satellite will be launched in late 2016 to ensure there is enough capacity to cover all regional and remote areas.
The satellites will provide high-speed broadband to more than 200,000 homes and businesses in the most remote areas of Australia.
They will deliver speeds of up to 25 megabits per second regardless of where people live.
The government aims to complete the roll out of the NBN by 2020.
Bailey's School of the Air class won naming rights to the first satellite.
"We called it Sky Muster because it fits in with outback and people," she said.
In congratulating Bailey, Communication Minister Malcolm Turnbull told school children at Canberra science museum Questacon the satellites weighed 6.5 tonnes, equivalent to a large African elephant.
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