Satellite Launches Doom By Voice

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A satellite is a computer-equipped spacecraft circling Earth. Radio carries instructions to it.

In this experiment, those instructions included somebody saying Doom. Apparently even space has become a smart speaker.

Tom's Hardware reported on 10 November 2026 that Oslo amateur radio operators, working with Tanagra Space, got the European Space Agency's OPS-SAT PRETTY satellite to launch the 1993 game by voice in late July 2026. ESA supplied the experimental platform; the radio team ran the test.

Software aboard the satellite recovered speech from radio noise and turned it into text. A matcher checked that text for the command and triggered Doom.

According to Tom's Hardware, the onboard speech model occupied 27 MB, small enough for the satellite's limited computer. No enormous chatbot required.

Hell apparently accepts compact bookings.

Tom's Hardware reports 7 attempts, with successful commands on the last 2. Tanagra Space says the morning success used a recorded synthetic voice; the evening success used a person speaking live.

Doom already ran on OPS-SAT-1 in 2023. The new trick was launching it by voice, not putting Doom in space for the first time.

Nor does this establish somebody steering a player from Earth.

The useful result is a demonstration of onboard speech recognition triggering software over a noisy radio link. The game was the test payload, not the mission statement.

Repost this for the kitchen speaker still pretending it didn't hear you.

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