Amazon, Starlink Tangle in New Space Race—But Data Access Is the Real Prize
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2026, 13:17 EDT Low Earth orbit satellite operators are bumping up against a subtler bottleneck as their fleets scale up: ground systems and databases are straining under the task of processing streams of telemetry from thousands of satellites zipping overhead. SpaceNews, in a piece published this week, called it a “cardinality wall”—a traffic jam of data caused