Derek Webber
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Derek Webber
Derek Webber is Washington, D.C. director of Spaceport Associates, and is a leading authority on the public space travel business. He also functions as director of business development at Transformational Space Corporation, where he is working to introduce a viable orbital tourism business. He directed two landmark studies in commercial space business planning: the ASCENT Study of space markets, for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the Futron/Zogby study of space tourism demand. Mr. Webber's career began as a launch vehicle and satellite engineer in Europe. He then began two decades of leadership in the international satellite communications business. He was successively head of procurement at Inmarsat, (contracting for over a billion dollars worth of communications satellites and their launch vehicles), and managing director of Tachyon Europe (providing satellite broadband and Internet access across the continent).
