NOAA engineers had made some progress in restoring the performance of the Advanced Baseline Imager on the GOES-17 satellite as of 2019-07-24, but had not fully corrected the problem or determined its root cause.
The GOES-17 cooling system problem could delay the planned 2020 launch of the next satellite in the series, GOES-T, pending decisions on instrument modifications and additional testing.
GOES-17 was originally designated GOES-S and launched in March 2019.
By September 2019, only 10 of the Advanced Baseline Imager’s 16 channels on GOES-17 will be available 24 hours a day, with the other six available most of the day due to seasonal sunlight effects.
GOES-17 launched on an Atlas 5 on 2018-03-01.