She's too busy trying to stop a space debris calamity from ever happening. The European Space Agency says for many missions, space debris impact represents the third highest risk of losing a spacecraft behind risks associated with launch and deployment in orbit. A close-up photograph showing damage sustained by the Solar Max experiment from a tiny piece of orbital debris. To her network she added the coordinates of space debris available to the public online (accessible via Space-Track . A screenshot of Yang's software, which predicts the flight path of space debris via an artificial neural network.

Source: CNN January 15, 2018 10:39 UTC