(a) Provisions of this paragraph apply to postponements requested or caused by the customer.
(b) A customer postponing the flight of a payload will pay a postponement fee to NASA. The fee will be computed as a percentage of the customer's Shuttle standard flight price and will be based on the table below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Postponement fee,
percent of standard
Months before scheduled launch date when flight price
postponement occurs -----------------------
Dedicated Shared
flights flights------------------------------------------------------------------------More than 33.................................... 0 018 or more but less than or equal to 33
--1st postponement.......................... 0 0
--2nd and subsequent........................ 5 517 or more but less than 18..................... 6 916 or more but less than 17..................... 7 1315 or more but less than 16..................... 8 1714 or more but less than 15..................... 10 2013 or more but less than 14..................... 11 2412 or more but less than 13..................... 12 2811 or more but less than 12..................... 13 3210 or more but less than 11..................... 14 369 or more but less than 10...................... 15 408 or more but less than 9....................... 17 437 or more but less than 8....................... 18 476 or more but less than 7....................... 19 51Less than 6..................................... 20 55------------------------------------------------------------------------
(c) If at any point, a customer postponement results in a launch date more than 12 months later than the original scheduled launch date, the standard flight price for the customer's payload may be adjusted by NASA to reflect any new standard flight price applicable at the time of the postponed launch, if such new price is higher than the originally contracted price.
(d) The payment schedule for postponed flights will be as defined in Sec. 1214.103(h)(2).
(e) Customers postponing the flight of a payload may also be subject to new or additional charges for optional services.