the “auto-vetting” is very rudimentary today, only happening if and when a data file is uploaded. Your case and Mark’s are both correct in that they are not “good” at all (I would also propose that until the CW decoder is improved we shouldn’t be trusting those at all)
I disagree. It did fail, but you are correct in that “upload” automatically means “good”. This is the very scenario I’ve talked about here. In our docs, it is technically a “bad” observation against NOAA 15, but how helpful is that to us in tracking the health of that satellite?