Spaceport Associates exists to make space tourism happen. We are able to offer a wide range of decision support services towards that end. In particular, we provide unrivaled support in the following areas:

• Due Diligence for Commercial Space Investment and Financing
• Space Tourism Market Demand and Forecasts
• Customer Perceptions and Preferences Research
• Price Elasticity of Demand Data
• Business Case Closure Modeling
• Risk Assessment Studies
• Competitive Assessment Surveys
• Sub-orbital, Orbital, Point-to-Point Perspectives

The DC Director, Derek Webber, brings valuable experience to this task area. He was Director of 3 major milestone studies of space markets:

The ASCENT Study into launch market demand was carried out for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and provided forecasts of 46 different market segments, including the space tourism segment. It explored price elasticity of demand and determined that only the space tourism sector can produce enough demand in the foreseeable future to make reusable launch vehicles (RLV’s) an economic proposition. The Executive Summary of the ASCENT Study is available for free download.

The Futron/Zogby Study of Space Tourism Demand provided a telephone survey of a statistically valid sample of millionaires, and determined their preferences for space tourism experiences at both realistic prices and realistic descriptions of sub-orbital and orbital opportunities. The Full Report of the Study is available for free download.

The Adventurers’ Survey of Space Tourism Preferences was conducted online in conjunction with the company Incredible Adventures. About 1,000 potential clients, who were involved in adventure holidays, were questioned about their preferences for a number of detailed items, including choice of architectures for providing the space tourism experience. The Executive Summary of the Adventurers’ Survey is available for free download from the home page of this web site, and moreover the Full Report of The Adventurers’ Survey is now available for free download.

Associates have also conducted major international market research studies, and focus groups around the world, for Boeing and the International Mobile Satellite Organization (Inmarsat), which helped in decision-making both at the strategic and product level. The DC Director continues involvement in new efforts to forecast the demand for public space travel, wherever possible, and in particular supports ongoing activities in agent modeling by Spaceworks Engineering, Inc. (SEI) in the US, and in Discrete Choice Modeling by the team at Latrobe University in Australia. Associates, furthermore, have experience of pricing, financing, project management, risk determination and of space industry insurance.

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