Disregard, was thinking "Insane".

On the other hand, I just found another one and it does seem to have a working survey module :/ Or at least it has an automated survey option, which the first one didn't

same here the first survey ship i found did not in fact have a survey module on it however it did show that it was capable of surveying on the strategic map (3 semicircles infront of the design)

I`m not getting a ship at all there nothing there for me.

I had this happen too.  However, soon after I found that survey ship, my game CTD.  When I reloaded from the autosave, and the survey ship was found again, it magically had the survey module.  It seems like it's a bug in the ship spawn code.

Note that Beta 4 greatly increased all ship "module" components' masses.  They went from mass 5 (ridiculously light) to mass 40-50 each.  You can't even build an early double-ctor any more because the 2nd ctor module doesn't fit.

So maybe a "survey module" also got huge(r) in mass, and no longer fits the old survey ship designs.  Maybe that causes the ship-generator function to just omit the survey module.