Satellites plug-in: Mark satellites with out-of-date orbital elements

Registered by Bogdan Marinov

Display in the Satellites configuration window and/or in the upper-left corner information field a warning that the orbital elements for a given satellite have not been updated during the last update. This can happen:
- if the satellite has been defined by the user and its designation is not in the update lists,
- the satellite has decayed and is no longer in the update lists,
- the update lists have been re-structured and use new designations that don't match the ones in the embedded file.

See the attached bug report for an example why this is necessary.

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There are lots of reasons that the elements are not updated - not all of them are problematic:

1. There just aren't any updated elements available (the update URL still has the previous data). This is not a problem.

2. The elements are missing from the update sources. This could be a temporary problem because one or more of the update URLs, like website maintenance.

3. The elements are missing from the update sources because the designation (ID) has changed. This is a huge pain in the butt.

4. The elements are missing from the update sources because the elements have been removed from the update source.

I suggest adding some new values to each satellite entry in the json file:
- lastUpdated - datestamp of the last update
- numNonUpdates - how many times the update has run but there was nothing for this satellire
- lastUpdateStaus - values: updated, notUpdated, notFound

Then we can have some rules to try to catch problematic satellites, like: "mark as a problem if the last three update attempts failed to update the satellite and the last update was more than 2 months ago OR mark as a problem if the elements were not found in the update data".

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