We continue to use SpaceWire where it's appropriate, and it was one of many options considered in the initial trade-study [1] that led to the creation of SatCat5. Among other things, many Aerospace-built cubesats have a laser communication downlink [2][3] that can reach 250 Mbps and up. It's not hard for raw sensor or video data to saturate a 1 Gbps link, and future missions may even need 10 GbE.
I had no idea that laser downlinks were even remotely possible from a cubesat - that's really kinda astonishing. Regarding the other high bandwidth stuff I imagined that "a communication satellite" was more or less a life support machine for a box made by Nokia.
CAN is actually kinda cool, should you ever feel like going down a rabbit hole.
