MIT develops space-themed investment portfolio.

Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, assistant director of space policy in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, is responding to the rising demand among commercial, scientific, and security organizations for satellites that can be customized or manufactured quickly and cost-effectively. Setting up orbital factories could dramatically reduce development time and cost for satellites with the ability to sense and monitor natural or human-made disasters. Uzo-Okoro is the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and is the first woman to run civilian space policy for the White House.