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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Current edition

GTOC7 - Seventh edition: The seventh edition will be organized by the Department of energetic in the Polythechnic of Turin and "Sapienza" University of Rome. The competition timeframe should be the beginning of 2014.

Past Editions

Here you can find the problem statement and the final ranks of past editions together with some pointers to relevant links.

GTOC6 2012 - Sixth Edition: organized by the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group of JPL and won by the Department of energetic in the Polythechnic of Turin and "Sapienza" University of Rome.
problem statement, final ranks

GTOC5 2010 - Fifth Edition: organized by the Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.
problem statement, problem data, final ranks, web site

GTOC4 2009 - Fourth Edition: organized by the The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales.
problem statement, problem data, final ranks, press release, group picture

GTOC3 2007 - Third Edition: organized by the Department of energetic in the Polythechnic of Turin and won by CNES.
problem statement, problem data, final ranks, 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.
problem statement, problem data, final ranks, 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.
problem statement, final ranks, web site, press release