http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/cooling-failure-threatens-noaa-s-newest-weather-satellite

A cooling problem on GOES-17, NOAA’s newest weather satellite, is imperiling the agency’s future weather forecasts.

A balky cooling system in the chill of space is throwing the future of the United States’s most recent multibillion-dollar weather satellite, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-17 (GOES-17), in doubt, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported today. Technicians are now scrambling to understand the problem, which first arose several weeks ago on the satellite’s primary instrument.