[GTOC12] - Announcement

[Dario Izzo]

Dear GTOC followers,

in a mixture of excitment and fear, the time has come again! 

We had quite some rest since the last endeavour and it is time again to advance together the interplanetary trajectory design field and understand where we are at.

Find the official announcement of GTOC12, from  Professor Hexi Baoyin

"The 12th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, GTOC 12, is being hosted in 2023 by Tsinghua University. GTOC was started in 2005 by Dario Izzo, the leader of the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency. The competition was always a way to promote innovation and exchanges in spacecraft trajectory optimization and astrodynamics for complex space missions. 

We invite all interested researchers or teams of researchers to register to compete in GTOC 12. 

Timeline

• 20 March, 2 AM UTC - Registration opens on this website
• 28 May, 2 AM UTC - Registration closes
• 29 May, 2 AM UTC - Problem is posted on this website
• 5 June, 2 AM UTC - Solution submission opens
• 26 June, 2 AM UTC - Solution submission closes. The rankings will be announced soon
• Around October (TBC) - The GTOC 12 Workshop 

The competition will have a leaderboard. All submitted solutions will be verified and scored automatically and posted to the leaderboard. Email submissions are permitted only as a backup in case of technical difficulties."

Official GTOC12 website: https://gtoc12.tsinghua.edu.cn

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

Any query about the competition should be addressed to Dr. Zhong Zhang (zhong-zh19 _AT_ mails.tsinghua.edu.cn) and Prof. Hexi Baoyin (baoyin _AT_ tsinghua.edu.cn>).

Best Regards,

Dario Izzo