SpaceDev, the private Colorado-based space development company, has offered the international space community opportunities to fly seven experiments aboard its Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP) at a cost of about $10-15 million each. The NEAPis to be launched in 1999/2000 to land on an asteroid, staking a claim to property rights. NEAP will carry three SpaceDev instruments, including an alpha proton spectrometer canister-lander. Three other landing canisters or nano-rovers are available to customers, together with four major on-board instruments.
Source: Flight International