The Ejectable Payload instrument by SpaceDev has not yet been selected. A decision is pending the final contracts for the customer-provided Ejectable Payloads so as not to duplicate effort. If the University of Arizona payloads are flown as planned, and the datasets from their instruments are sold by SpaceDev to NASA or ESA, the University will share in the income, thereby returning their investment several times over. An Ejectable Payload is accommodated by an ejection mechanism. Payloads can be released from the body of the spacecraft at almost any point during the mission.
Customers assume full ownership of their instrument's data.
SpaceDev places no restrictions on the use of the data or on the customer's commitment to share the data with government agencies or the public. New Lunar Payloads. As a result of changing the NEAP mission to target the carbonaceous asteroid Nereus, and designing the mission to launch nine months before the primary launch date, SpaceDev has the opportunity to make six or more close passes over the North and South poles of the moon. The mission redesign has also made about 50 kg of new payload available for the nine-month lunar phase of the mission. Three new line items have been added to the price list.