# Space & Satellite Futures: Candace Johnson, HoF '26, and the 2025 20 Under 35 Cohort Have More in Common Than You'd Think

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Published: 2026-04-03T16:05:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, Candace Johnson , co-founder of SES, pioneer of direct-to-home broadcasting, and partner at Seraphim Space, is Orbited as she fields questions from SSPI's 2025 20 Under 35 cohort . One of the most consequential figures in commercial space history, Johnson launched her career at 30 with a letter from the Prime Minister of Luxembourg and a conviction that private satellite communications would reshape Europe. Decades later, she helped build the ecosystem that made global connectivity possible and is now raising alarms about the industry she helped create. In this conversation, the 2025 cohort presses Johnson on what it took to break the financial and cultural assumptions holding back commercial satellite operators, how she identified market demand before the language existed to describe it, and what she sees when she looks at the constellation economy today. Her answers are pointed: spectrum is being wasted, emerging space-faring nations are being locked out, and the industry that prided itself on opening access may be quietly closing it again. Orbited is an SSPI series pairing the 2025 20 Under 35 cohort with inductees into the Hall of Fame Class of 2026.

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