Many applications running for long periods of time eventually transition to broken states, and cannot recover except by being restarted. - HN

the Voyagers relied on a once in a 175 year planetary alignment. - HN

• Kubernetes provides liveness probes to detect and remedy such situations.

Most spacecraft have more than one Command Loss Timer Reset for subsystem level safety reasons, with the Voyager craft using at least 7 of these timers. - wikipedia

“Practically all of Voyager’s redundancy is gone now, either because something broke along the way or it was turned off to conserve power. Of the 11 original instruments on Voyager 1, only five remain” - wired

• 17/11/2024 - Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
• 13/12/2023 - Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
• 12/09/2013 - Voyager leaves Solar System