So... restarted without tutorial this morning.
Immediately fought on different maps I had not seen before...

Still struggling with getting engineers enough to get satelites up. I had to prioritize Australia in my fourth mission because their panic level was too high instead of getting the four engineers in the US. At least I get a Sergeant Sniper out of the deal.
Hopefully I should have enough engineers in a few days anyway, but it is annoying.

Now a question: A lot of strategy tips say "sell everything" the first months to buy satelites and interceptors, bt should I really sell nav computers etc?