Times are off. Article states arrests occurred Saturday, but it was already Sunday in Vatican City when the power went out.
You had me at "trendy new logo".
I work in the broadcast industry and we received no such notices. And for what it's worth, satellite transponders NEVER go down for maint. It just doesn't happen as there's no service-affecting maint to do.
There are occasional sun outages that occur a couple of times a year at most, but these are short lived; about 1-3 minutes max.