[Bman]

If in your empire settings you have it set for your ships to clear their movement orders when entering a system with an enemy presence, then your ship would have stopped moving once it entered the system and found the satellites. Then as it sat there, more combats would occur, since in simultaneous mode, the turn is broken up into days and combat occurs every 5? days if there are enemies in the same sector.

I think that setting is truly evil and it is the first thing I clear when I start a new game.