Tumbleweed, the Vienna-based startup making access to microgravity as simple as mailing a package, has launched its first mission, and Austria's first commercial satellite, Oasis Alpha, to a Sun-synchronous 590km low Earth orbit, aboard yesterday's SpaceX Transporter 17 mission.
Developed in under nine months, Oasis Alpha is a technology demonstration mission built around a simple idea: everyone should be able to send their project to space without needing to become a space company first.


