TERMINAL VELOCITY AEROSPACE, LLC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: H10.02
TERMINAL VELOCITY AEROSPACE, LLC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Amount
- $124,874
- Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- H10.02
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- GA
- Period
- 2014-06-20 → 2014-12-19
Description
Terminal Velocity Aerospace, LLC (TVA) proposes to improve utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) by providing a system for on-demand return of experiment samples to Earth. TVA is presently developing a small reentry device (RED) capable of returning small payloads from space, with initial prototype development funded by a separate contract. The device, named RED-4U, is sized to accommodate a payload mass and volume equivalent to four CubeSats, commonly referred to as units or "U." The payload accommodations and concept of operations for RED-4U are currently generically defined, but are readily suitable to the ISS small payload return mission. In the proposed Phase I R&D effort, TVA proposes to (1) design, fabricate, and demonstrate RED-4U payload accommodations specifically for high-frequency sample return from ISS; and (2) detail the concept of operations for RED-4U use on ISS.