Bottlenecks for the New Space Race Start Here on Earth
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2026, 15:00 EDT On Tuesday, SpaceX launched 24 additional Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base, following a 29-satellite mission out of Cape Canaveral the previous day. The pace is turning up the spotlight on a less discussed choke point for the expanding satellite fleet: handling the torrent of data each unit beams down to Earth. (Spaceflight
