data limits

WASHINGTON, May 26, 2026, 12:05 EDT Satellite operators are bumping up against an often-overlooked bottleneck in low Earth orbit: the ground infrastructure that processes spacecraft telemetry can’t always keep pace with rapidly expanding fleets. Ian Clark of InfluxData, writing for SpaceNews, flagged the issue—called the “cardinality wall”—as an increasingly stubborn architecture headache for LEO operations as satellite numbers surge. (Copernical)