Professor Danielle Wood is MIT’s leading anti-colonial celebrity space intellectual. “All countries have a right to benefit from space activity,” she explained in a recent Wired Magazine article attacking greedy capitalist space colonizers like Elon Musk.

How dare one white man operate more than half the satellites orbiting earth today? Are satellites not the common patrimony of all humankind?

Musk’s Starlink network is hogging thousands of orbital slots in a colonial land grab as shameful as King Leopold’s rape of the Congo. How is Rwanda supposed to get its fair share, enabling its world-leading space entrepreneurs to enjoy the riches that come from innovation?

That’s why Professor Wood lauds Rwanda’s efforts to register nearly 330,000 satellites with the ITU, demanding slots of their own before Musk uses them all up. “They don’t want to be the last ones to get access to space, so they’re staking a claim.”

Wood’s space enabled advocacy work is dedicated to advancing justice by “ameliorating the harm caused by long term patterns of social hierarchy so we can move toward liberatory self-determination for intersectional groups that consistently experience oppression, such as Black women, low-income immigrants, Indigenous people impacted by climate change, or transsexual people in the U.S. who speak English as a second language.”

This is how the new MIT with advanced DEIdeology contributes to the modern space race.

How will Rwanda use its hard-won orbital slot licenses? By having its well-connected bureaucrats serve as paid front men for a French company that may or may not actually run a satellite business that doesn’t go defunct. Unless the company’s financiers decide to sell their position once the slots are allocated for a tidy profit to someone who actually knows what they are doing.

Ah, the hoops one has to jump through to deliver space enabled justice.