[Verse 1] Talk flight computer, cosmic ray come knockin', Silicon get flipped, a bit start rockin', Single event upset, latch-up creepin' low, Radiation-hardened chips built to shrug the blow, Run it triple, three lanes chase one command, Voter box compares, tosses out the contraband, Two agree, majority calls the vote, One glitch overruled, kept the bird afloat, That's triple-modular redundancy, no single point can fail, Three brains reasoning parallel down an unbroken rail. [Chorus] Vote it, count it, TMR keep us sound, Two of three call the shot when the static come around, FDIR watching — fault, then isolate, Detect it, contain it, recover, don't hesitate, Dish is turning slow, catching whispers cross the black, One-point-three seconds till the signal comes back. [Verse 2] Data bus humming, dual redundant line, Command and telemetry laced on twisted-pair design, Sensors sip the pressure, the vibration, and the heat, Guidance drift recorded so no glitch repeats, Downlink budget's tight, every bit's a bill, Compress the housekeeping, prioritize what's real, Packetize the heartbeat, tag it, stamp the time, Ground crew reads the pulse of a machine that climbs. [Verse 3] Link budget arithmetic, signal against the noise, Crank the gain up, hush the static's poise, High-gain dish locked steady, aimed back at the Earth, Omni antenna backup, humble in its worth, Networks deep as space, dishes wide and grand, Reading whispers faint across a quarter-million-mile strand, Patience in the protocol, light is never quick — Wait out the delay before you make the fix. [Verse 4] Solar wings unfold and harvest photon rain, Battery bank sits quiescent — dormant, held in reign, Power distribution slices amps to every load, Regulated voltage keeps the circuits on the road, Eclipse behind the moon, the panels lose their sun, Batteries snap awake, the mission still gets run. [Bridge] State machine architecture, modes stacked like a ladder, Boost, coast, then burn — every state's gotta matter, Transition on a trigger, guard condition checked, Fault gets found, isolated, then it's rerouted, correct, Apollo coders wrote it lean, priorities ran deep, Restarted mid-descent, no data lost to sleep, Verification discipline — test the code to death, Simulate the failure modes before you waste a breath, Formal proof, static checks, sangfroid fills the room, Composed under pressure, steady past the boom. [Outro] Termination package armed along the spine, Autonomous flight safety draws the boundary line, Cross the corridor, the shutdown signal's clean, Guarding every coastline, every witnessed scene, Every vote, every byte, every dish that scans the dark — Flight software carries the whole ascent to mark.
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