[GTOC 11] - Schedule Announcement

[Dario Izzo]

Dear GTOC followers,

It has been quite some time and a lot has happened since the galaxy has been colonized. Its now time to start again and fire our propulsion system, to quote Tennyson's  Ulysses:

"How dull is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished and not to shine in use"

Find the official announcement of GTOC11, from  Ya-Zhong Luo and Hong-Xin Shen, below.

Schedule:

• 12 September, 12 PM UTC - Registration opens
• 9 October, 12 PM UTC - Registration closes
• 10 October, 12 PM UTC - Problem is posted on this website
• 17 October, 12 PM UTC - Solution submission opens
• 7 November, 12 PM UTC - Solution submission closes
• 18 December, 2 PM UTC - The GTOC 11 Workshop will be held online through Microsoft Teams (Room ID will be released later) and a number of teams will be invited to present their solving method
• January, 2022 –This competition plans to organize a special issue on the journal of Acta Astronautica for the topic of GTOC 11. Participators are welcomed to submit papers to share their solving method. Excellent papers will be selected for publication.

Solutions are to be submitted by teams through this website. The competition will have a leaderboard – submitted solutions will be verified and scored automatically and posted to it.

Official GTOC11 website: https://gtoc11.nudt.edu.cn/GTOC

Official GTOC website: https://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/

Any query about the competition should be addressed to  Ya-Zhong Luo (luoyz _AT_ nudt.edu.cn) and Hong-Xin Shen (hongxin.shen _AT_ gmail.com).

Best Regards,

Dario Izzo

[Dario Izzo]

Some teams cannot access the GTOC11 website because of company policies or other firewall/networking issues. In this case, please note that team registrations and solution submissions by email are welcome. Just send the team information and future solutions to the email (hongxin.shen _AT_ gmail.com).