Yang Yang
Senior Lecturer in Space Engineering,
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW Sydney
We turn sparse and noisy space-tracking data into reliable navigation and operational intelligence for safer satellite and cislunar missions.
My group works on optical tracking and observatory automation, orbit determination, satellite manoeuvre detection and pattern of life, and navigation for lunar and cislunar missions. The common thread is estimation: recovering trustworthy state, and honest uncertainty, from data that is sparse, noisy, or both.
I teach space engineering at UNSW (AERO9500 and AERO9610) and am Academic Lead for AUStronauts, a Vertically Integrated Project team developing a 3U CubeSat with an electrodynamic tether for space-weather applications.
I serve as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Space Systems).
Industry, agency and research partners can engage this work through three bounded pilots: a tracking campaign, a manoeuvre and pattern-of-life assessment, or a cislunar PNT trade study.