As reported on Reddit, there is a planned GOES outage on the 23rd March (today) between 1400 and 2000 UTC for GOES 16 and GOES 17 which are impacted from software patching with system upgrades to Oracle (assuming database) and…
As reported on space.com, the decommissioned US weather satellite NOAA 17 has broken up into at least 16 pieces. This is a similar fate to what happened to NOAA 16 in 2015. NOAA 15 / 18 / 19 are still…