{"id":350338,"date":"2026-01-03T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:02:06","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.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350338\/","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 SpainSat NG 2 military telecommunications satellite launched in October has suffered a failure that owner Indra Group 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 Hispasat and the Hisdesat 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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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":2,"featured_media":350339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24981,135217,16776,135218,135219,135220,135221,3105,90,416,135222,135223,135224,24983,56,54,55,135225],"class_list":["post-350338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-airbus-defence-and-space","tag-eu-govsatcom-hub","tag-european-commission","tag-european-space-agency-esa","tag-hisdesat","tag-indra-group","tag-inmarsat-6-f2","tag-nato","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spainsat-ng-2","tag-spainsat-ng-1","tag-spanish-ministry-of-defense","tag-thales-alenia-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-viasat-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}