Operating as a subsidiary of aerospace company SpaceWorks Enterprises, Terminal Velocity Aerospace (TVA) LLC is developing hypersonic flight products, unmanned orbital reentry capsules, and heat shield technologies for space flight applications. The company's smallest reentry devices, RED-Data2 and RED-Test, will serve as affordable expendable test beds to study thermal protection system performance and spacecraft breakup during reentry from Earth orbit. These devices are expected to achieve their first space flight by late 2016. Larger versions of TVAâs RED devices such as the recoverable RED-4U and RED-25 will offer payload compartments for safe return of space-based manufacturing, medical, and pharmaceutical products.
