Amateur Radio Launches Doom on ESA Satellite

An Oslo radio amateur group successfully launched the 1993 game Doom on an ESA satellite named OPS-SAT PRETTY after seven attempts. The team, working with Tanagra Space, sent voice commands over the 23 cm band on the same day in late July. A 27 MB onboard speech model transcribed the audio to trigger the launch, costing about 7,200 NOK.