[GTOC 13 ] Competition Dates Announcement

[Petropoulos, Anastassios E (US 392M)]

Dear GTOC Community,

The moment we have all been patiently [impatiently] waiting for: the start of GTOC13.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is organising the 13th Edition of the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition this year.  The dates for the competition are as follows:

Mid-September :: GTOC13 Website will go live and registrations will open at the website

17 October    :: Registration will close

20 October, 17:00 UTC  :: Competition Start (problem is posted on website)

17 November, 18:00 UTC :: Competition End (submissions close).

Early-Mid [TBD] 2026   ::  Workshop

There will be a leaderboard for the competition, and solutions will be submitted via the website and checked automatically upon submission.

Keep an eye out for the website announcement on this forum, and also other updates on the official ESA GTOC Portal (https://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/?page_id=1099).

Thank you, and hope to 'see' you all in the competion.

-Anastassios Petropoulos, Gregory Lantoine, and the GTOC13 team at JPL