Space Has a Plumbing Problem, and It’s Getting Expensive

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Rockets function reliably. Satellites roll off assembly lines at scale. Yet the buzz at SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View can’t mask a sobering reality: data gets stuck on the way down.

Source: https://news.satnews.com/2026/02/10/space-has-a-plumbing-problem-and-its-getting-expensive/