Thanks to Mr. Carl Reinemann, notification was received that the NOAA GOES-17 satellite had moved into a Safe Hold Mode due to an anomaly that affected all satellite operations…
Thankfully, on July 23 at 2:51 p.m., the agency issued the following statement…
NOAA’s GOES-17 is out of safe-hold mode and engineers expect its six instruments to return to normal operations soon. The probable cause of yesterday’s anomaly appears to be a memory bit error in the spacecraft computer. The engineering team says the computer has been responding correctly to commands.
Earlier this morning, the Advanced Baseline Imager and Magnetometer were restored and data are flowing. The remaining four instruments are expected to come online later this morning. The team expects some minor, short-term data quality issues while the instruments are being recalibrated, but GOES-17 is on track for a full recovery with no lasting effects to the satellite.
