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This is the archive of the ACT News. Subscribe to our Newsletter if you want to keep updated with what is happening at the Advanced Concepts Team. Ariadna calls are also announced in the Newsletter. |
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Release of the new Ariadna Call for Proposals 2012/01 |
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Acta Futura: issue 5 published |
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PyGMO, V1.0.0 is released! 28 November 2011 The open source PaGMO/PyGMO scientific library has been released! Version 1.0.0 comes in the form of a c++ library (PaGMO), or Python 2.7 module (PyGMO) and is compatible with all major hardware platforms. PaGMO/PyGMO allows for massively parallel engineering optimization. It has been sucessfully used in the past to design interplanetary low-thrust trajectories, as well as microstructred thermal radiators or to process ionospheric data. A list of optimization algorithms included in version 1.0.0 can be found here. They all are made parallel via PyGMO's generalized island model, a coarse-grained parallelization technology the Advanced Concepts Team developed in past years. |
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Acta Futura: issue 4 published |
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ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011 |
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Ariadna Call for Proposals 2011/01. |
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Ariadna Mini-workshop: Active Space Debris Removal. |
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Advances in Relativistic Positioning Systems. |
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IJCAI 2011 workshop on AI in space |
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World Space Week: The Space Game 23 September 2010 The Advanced Concepts Team is organising in the framework of the World Space Week (Oct. 4-10) an on-line game for interplanetary trajectory design. Compete with other players around the world and find your way to Jupiter!! |
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5th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC5) 01 September 2010 The Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, opened team registration to the fifth edition of the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. |
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Release of the new Ariadna Call for Proposals 2010/01 |
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Google accepts PaGMO in GSoC 2010! |
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Take a glance at the future! |
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Workshop on BMI for Space Applications |
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Release of the new Ariadna Call for Proposals 2009/01 |
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Successful Ariadna study contributed to the EU FP7 HPH.com project 08 May 2009 The Ariadna Study ''Numerical Simulation of the Helicon Double Layer Thruster Concept'' led to a successful project proposal to the European Commission.
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Space Transportation Seminar: To New Frontiers 30 March 2009 In order to help prepare the future of space transportation vehicles by 2030 and far beyond, ESA and CNES have initiated a seminar co-organized by the AAAF and Prospective 2100. |
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Mini-workshop: Studies results of the Ariadna Call for Ideas "Encounter 2029" 18 March 2009 The studies results of the Ariadna Call for Ideas "Preparing for Apophis - Encounter 2029" will be presented during a workshop at ESTEC on 3 April 2009. |
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A new way to test general relativity? |
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The IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space 28 January 2009 The Advanced Concepts Team and the Artificial Intelligence Group of NASA's JPL will be organising a workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space at IJCAI-09 in Pasadena, California, on July 17-18, 2009. |
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4th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC4) 19 January 2009 The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) announced the fourth edition of the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. |
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Understanding plant stems could enhance boom design |
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Student Competition for the 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference
06 November 2008 The Planetary Defence Conference, with a strong focus on student participation, will be held for the first time in Europe the week of April 27, 2009 in Granada, Spain. |
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1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids
29 June 2008 The Planetary Defence Conference, with a strong focus on student participation, will be held for the first time in Europe the week of April 27, 2009 in Granada, Spain. |
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Centrifugal Fragmentation of Asteroids
21 July 2008 What would happen if we placed a spacecraft on an asteroid and increased it's spin rate? Some asteroids could be forced to break up. This may prove to be an effective method of mitigaiting the potential risks of such asteroids... |
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Ariadna: First Call for Proposals in 2008
03 July 2008 The ACT released the first Ariadna Call for Proposals in 2008!! This particular call encompasses some fascinating research ideas on the themes of Biomimetics and Bioengineering. |
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A distributed computing environment at ESA
23 June 2008 The ACT has been working on a project to exploit the idle time computing power of ESA employees' desktop computers. |
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Prospection of Invisibility Devices for Space
13 June 2008 The ACT organizes a one day Workshop to explore the design strategies an options of invisibility devices for space. |
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Encounter 2029, Call for Ideas |
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European SPS NetWorkshop |
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Brain Machine Interface in Zero Gravity |
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Second edition of the ACT Workshop on Innovative Concepts |
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3rd Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC3) 10 October 2007 The Aerospace Propulsion group of the Dipartimento di Energetica - Politecnico di Torino announced the third edition of the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. |
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Ariadna 2007/02 Released!!
20 September 2007: The Ariadna Call for Proposal 2007/02 has been released!! This call encompasses five topics: tethered satellites, metamaterials, gravitational physics, P2P distributed optimisation and machine/animal hybrid controllers. |
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Magic inclinations are real!! 14 September 2007 A new independent research from the US confirmed the existence of a previously unknown feature of the Earth geopotential field postulated by ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. |
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Mini-workshop on Global Trajectory Optimisation 28 August 2007 The ACT organises a one day workshop on global optimisation of spacecraft trajectory design which will take place on the 10th of September, 2007 at ESTEC. |
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Swarm Intelligence for Space Applications 27 June 2007 Swarm Intelligence is an emerging research field that studies the possibility of achieving complex undertaking using multiple agents interacting with simple rules. Can this paradigm be used for space applications? |
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Ariadna 2007/01 Released 07 March 2007 The Ariadna Call for Proposal 2007/01 has been released. In this call: asteroid fragmentation, micro propulsion, bio-controllers, self validated integration and swarm intelligence for orbital formations |
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JPL Announces 2nd Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (GTOC2) 10 October 2006 The Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition will be proposed again this year and organised by the Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), winners of last competition. |
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WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications at IJCAI 07 25 July 2006 The Advanced Concepts Team, together with the Artificial Intelligence group of JPL and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at El Paso... |
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Innovative DSG4 ion thruster enters new test campaign |
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Spider robots climb to new heights |
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Biomimetics: a new approach for space system design |
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Thinking out of the box: how to challenge conventional space systems |
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How to find the orbital needle in the celestial haystack (GTOC1) |
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ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough |
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ESA accelerates towards a new space thruster |
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Spider robots and the space web |
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From Purple Haze Comes Thrust |
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Can we understand gravity? |
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Linking with the future |
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Launch of Ariadna to boost advanced space research in Europe |
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