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Ariadna
Mission Analysis and Design
GTOC1 results: Alcatel Alenia Space

The trajectory is a direct transfer from the Earth to the asteroid TW229. The optimisation method used is mainly Pontryagin maximum principle. The authors did not state how the initial guess was obtained. A trial and error strategy might have been implemented. The final solution is not globally otimal as the trajectory found by Lomonosov's Moscow State University showed.


Team members Mr. Vincent Martinot
Mr. Thierry Dargent

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