{"id":490116,"date":"2026-01-03T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:40:10","slug":"spainsat-ng-2-launched-in-oct-suffers-anomaly-ascribed-to-space-particle-on-way-to-geo-orbit-insured-for-400-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490116\/","title":{"rendered":"SpainSat NG 2, launched in Oct, suffers anomaly ascribed to &#8216;space particle&#8217; on way to GEO orbit; insured for $400 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">LA PLATA, Maryland \u2014 The <strong>SpainSat NG 2<\/strong> military telecommunications satellite launched in October has suffered a failure that owner<strong> Indra Group<\/strong> said was caused by \u201cthe impact of a space particle\u201d as the satellite was making its way to\u00a0 its final position in geostationary orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In its Jan. 2 statement, Indra, which as of Jan. 1 is majority-owner of commercial satellite fleet operator <strong>Hispasat<\/strong> and the <strong>Hisdesat<\/strong> military satellite operator, which owns the satellite, said Hisdesat has implemented a contingency plan to assure that . . .<\/p>\n<p>To view the entire article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/subscribe-to-space-intel-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">become a subscriber<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA PLATA, Maryland \u2014 The SpainSat NG 2 military telecommunications satellite launched in October has suffered a failure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[183569,221088,16446,221089,221090,221091,221092,8959,159,783,221093,221094,221095,893,67,132,68,221096],"class_list":{"0":"post-490116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-airbus-defence-and-space","9":"tag-eu-govsatcom-hub","10":"tag-european-commission","11":"tag-european-space-agency-esa","12":"tag-hisdesat","13":"tag-indra-group","14":"tag-inmarsat-6-f2","15":"tag-nato","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-spainsat-ng-2","19":"tag-spainsat-ng-1","20":"tag-spanish-ministry-of-defense","21":"tag-thales-alenia-space","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-viasat-inc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832869675332052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}