Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC)

This yearly competition aims at advancing the automation of the trajectory design process. The competition has been taken up by the community after its first edition organized by the Advanced Concepts Team.

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08-10-2009 Moscow State University agreed to organize GTOC5!!! The new competition will be in September 2010 and the final workshop will take place in Moscow in February 2011.

02-06-2009 The summary of team solutions to GTOC4 problem is available here.

15-04-2009 Moscow State University won the Fourth edition of GTOC. Congratulations!!!

Past Editions Web-Sites

Here you can find the web sites that were put in place during the previous editions. In each web site you can find the problem description, the final rankings, info on the different teams methods and the raw data of the solutions.

GTOC4 2009 - Fourth Edition: organized by the The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales. (web site) (press release) (group picture)

GTOC3 2007 - Third Edition: organized by the Department of energetic in the Polythechnic of Turin and won by CNES. (web site) (press release)

GTOC2 2006 - Second Edition: organized by the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group of JPL and won by the Department of energetic in the Polythechnic of Turin. (web site) (press release)

GTOC1 2005 - First Edition: organized by the European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team and won by the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group of JPL. (web site) (press release)

A small forum on the GTOC2 competition: link