I think Andy was looking more at the second half of the info.
Payload Guidelines for future Space Adventures missions:
Payloads shall be limited to approximately Five kg in weight and fit within the following approximate dimensions: 25 x 25 x 40 cm. Payload may be powered by flight qualified batteries or 28V DC station power. All payloads must be safety qualified to ISS payload flight qualification requirements. All U.S. payload customers are responsible for U.S. export compliance. Three duplicate payload units must be submitted for payload qualification and flight. Payload experiment data can be returned in the form of still images, flash memory cards, videos or hand written notes. Small amounts of experiment results may be returned to Earth within 8-15 days or six months following launch.
Kenneth - N5VHO
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@AMSAT.Org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@AMSAT.Org] On Behalf Of Rick Mann Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:44 PM To: andythomasmail@yahoo.co.uk Cc: amsat Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: ISS Payload opportunity announced
On May 29, 2008, at 00:28:33, andy thomas wrote:
Payloads must be ready for shipment to Russia no later than March 3, 2008.
A bit late, no?