“Space systems were the major focus for a long time. The ground segment was just the afterthought.” @NorthwoodSpace CEO @bridgitmendler explains why the space industry is now facing a ground infrastructure bottleneck: “For a government customer segment, they tend to procure their spacecraft & their ground systems separately..  people think about the thing you're putting up in space, & for a number of programs, the ground was just not really contemplated. So they started running into issues…