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Apr 26, 2012
SpaceDev Near Earth Asteroid Prospector Exploration Goals
Publication: Space 98
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SpaceDev is a publicly traded (trading symbol: SPDV) corporation engaged in the commercialization of routine space exploration utilizing existing technologies. SpaceDev intends to design, construct and test an unmanned spacecraft (the Near Earth Asteroid Prospector or NEAP), fly NEAP and its commercial payload of science instruments to a targeted near earth asteroid residing beyond earth's orbit, and successfully land one or more scientific instruments on the asteroid, and communicate the scientific data to earth. Once it achieves its goal of asteroid rendezvous and valuable data collection, SpaceDev believes it will be positioned to become the premier provider of high quality and low cost space-related consulting, design, planning and support services and products.
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Space 98
Pages: 429 - 436
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© 1998 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Aerospace engineering
- Aircraft and spacecraft
- Asteroids, comets, and meteoroids
- Astronomy
- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Business organizations
- Corporations
- Data collection
- Engineering fundamentals
- Financial management
- Methodology (by type)
- Orbits
- Organizations
- Payloads
- Practice and Profession
- Research methods (by type)
- Space exploration
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James W. Benson
Chairman, CEO, SpaceDev. P.O. Box 772121, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477
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