It’s the OPS-SAT experiment that keeps on giving. My co-researcher Ólafur Waage followed up on running DOOM onboard the OPS-SAT satellite with another presentation at Ubuntu Summit 2025:
This time around we received even more media attention. Here’s a roundup of articles and social media coverage.
Articles
Zuckerman, Gregory. “Doom Runs on an ESA Satellite During Live Orbit Operations.” FindArticles, 26 Oct. 2025.
Vaughan-Nichols, Steven. “How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite — and what happened next.” ZDNet, 23 Oct. 2025.
BeauHD. “Programmer Gets Doom Running On a Space Satellite.” Slashdot, 23 Oct. 2025.
Proven, Liam. “This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite.” The Register, 28 Oct. 2025.
Schestowitz, Rianne. “This is Doom, running headless, on Ubuntu Arm… on a satellite.” Tux Machines, 29 Oct. 2025.
Wilkins, Joe. “Hacker Gets ‘Doom’ Running on Satellite in Outer Space.” Futurism, 31 Oct. 2025.
“Hacker Gets “Doom” Running on Satellite in Outer Space.” Yahoo Tech, 31 Oct. 2025.
Marshall, John. “Icelandic Developer Runs Doom on ESA’s OPS-SAT Satellite.” WebProNews, 31 Oct. 2025.
Jeffrey, Cal. “They got Doom running on a satellite orbiting Earth, because of course they did.” TechSpot, Oct. 2025.
“Doom on a satellite? Classic shooter now running on European space satellite.” News9live, Oct. 2025.
Hrinko, Ivan. “ESA engineers used the OP-SAT satellite to play Doom.” Universe Magazine, Oct. 2025.
Ferreira, Bruno. “Doom can run just about anywhere, including space — Hacker recounts tale of running the game on an orbiting satellite.” Tom’s Hardware, 1 Nov. 2025.
Jackson, Claire. “Some Super Clever Folks Got Doom Running On A Goddamn Satellite.” Kotaku, 3 Nov. 2025.
“DOOM on a Satellite.” Adafruit Blog, 3 Nov. 2025.
Frank, Edward. “Classic Game Goes Orbital: DOOM Runs on OPS-SAT, a Satellite of European Space Agency.” Gadget Voize, 3 Nov. 2025.
Sattler, Valentin. “Doom: Retro-Ego-Shooter lief auf einem ESA-Satelliten.” PC Games Hardware, 3 Nov. 2025.
Evanson, Nick. “The 25th anniversary of the ISS operationally in orbit reminded me the ESA once challenged an Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry dev to get DOOM running on a satellite.” PC Gamer, 4 Nov. 2025.
Neviriah. “DOOM Just Ran in Space, and It Used Real Earth Photos.” Icy Veins, 7 Nov. 2025.
Social Media
Explore the project on GitHub and, as Ólafur would say, “Never stop learning.”