Who are the people behind the success of the different teams? While it is fair to credit the institutions as winners of the various editions, it is, at the end of the day, people that put their brains to accomplish the impossible. We list here the names of the people associated to the various teams:
GTOC12:
Organizers: Zhong Zhang, Fanghua Jiang and Hexi Baoyin
Winners: Anastassios Petropoulos and Gregory Lantoine, Austin Nicholas, Tim McElrath, Zubin Olikara, Sungmoon Choi, Etienne Pellegrini, Damon Landau, Drew Jones, Vishala Arya, Try Lam, Thomas Pavlak, Yuji Takubo, Quinn Kostelecky, CK Venigalla, Brian Anderson, Kenza Boudad, Mark Wallace, Dimitri Gerasimatos, and Jon Sims.
2nd ranked: Shengmao He, Chao Peng, Yang Gao, Changxuan Wen, Zhengfan Zhu and Yang Zhang
3rd ranked: Sébastien Goulet, Vincent Debout, Patrice Mathieu, Vincent Cucchietti, Maxime Journot, Julien Asquier, Romain Garmier, Laurène Beauvalet, Thierry Ceolin, Laurent Chausson, Pascal Parraud.
GTOC11:
Organizers: Ya-Zhong Luo and Hong-Xin Shen
Winners: Zhong Zhang,Nan Zhang,Xiang Guo,Di Wu,Xuan Xie,Jinyuan Li,Jia Yang,Shiyu Chen,Fanghua Jiang,Hexi Baoyin;Haiyang Li,Huixin Zheng,Xiaowen Duan
2nd ranked: Dario Izzo, Marcus Märtens, Anne Mergy, Emmanuel Blazquez, Moritz van Looz, Pablo Gomez, Giacomo Acciarini, Chit Hong Yam,Javier Hernando Ayuso,Yuri Shimane
3rd ranked: Roberto Armellin, Laura Pirovano,Minduli Wijayatunga, Adam Evans, Alberto Fossa, Andrea Bellome, Thomas Caleb, Xiaoyu Fu, Danny Owen, Laurent Beauregard, Alex Wittig, Cristina Parigini, Joan-Pau Sanchez Cuartielles
GTOCX:
Organizers: Anastassios Petropoulos, Eric Gustafson, Gregory Whiffen, Brian Anderson
Winners:
Ya-Zhong Luo, An-Yi Huang, Yue-He Zhu, Peng Shu, Zhen-Jiang Sun, Zhen-Yu Li, Jian-Jun Shi, Bing Yan, Xiang-Nan Du, Zhen Yang, Jin Zhang – College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology
Hong-Xin Shen, Tian-Jiao Zhang, Zhao Li, Jian-Hui Li, Zheng-Zhong Kuai, Heng-Nian Li – State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center
2nd ranked: Haiyang Li, Shiyu Chen, Zhibo E, Yu Song, Yazhe Meng, Di Wu, Fanghua Jiang and Hexi Baoyin; Zheng Che and Songjie Hu – Tsinghua University, School of Aerospace Engineering; XINGYI SPACE
3d ranked: Dario Izzo, Marcus Märtens, Ekin Öztürk, Mate Kisantal, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Luís Felismino Simões, Chit Hong Yam, Javier Hernando Ayuso – ESA, Advanced Concepts Team
GTOC9:
Organizers: Dario Izzo
Winners: Anastassios Petropoulos, Daniel Grebow, Drew Jones,
Gregory Lantoine, Austin Nicholas, Javier Roa, Juan Senent, Jeffrey
Stuart, Nitin Arora, Thomas Pavlak, Try Lam, Timothy McElrath,
Ralph Roncoli, David Garza, Nicholas Bradley, Damon Landau, Zahi
Tarzi, Frank Laipert, Eugene Bonfiglio, Mark Wallace, Jon Sims – Jet Propulsion Laboratories
2nd ranked: Liang Jun, Zhu Hai, Mu Shuai, Yue-He Zhu, Ya-Zhong Luo,
Zhang Jin – College of Aerospace Science and Technology, National
University of Defense Technology
3d ranked: Hong-Xin Shen, An-Yi Huang, Tian-Jiao Zhang, Zhao Li – State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi’an Satellite Control Center
GTOC8:
Organizers: Anastassios E. Petropoulos
Winners: Dario Izzo, Daniel Hennes, Marcus Märtens, Ingmar Getzner, Krzysztof Nowak, Anna Heffernan, Stefano Campagnola, Chit Hong Yam, Naoya Ozaki, and Yoshihide Sugimoto – ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
2nd ranked: Fanghua Jiang, Hongwei Yang, Gao Tang – School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University
3d ranked : Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone, Guido Colasurdo, Alessandro Zavoli, Christian Abbate, Andrea Manno,
Simone Sagratella, Alessandra Barco, Marco Berga, Valeria Catullo, Giorgio Fasano, Andrea D’Ottavio , Ludovico Garin, Davide Grana, Francesco Simeoni
GTOC7:
Organizers: Lorenzo Casalino and Guido Colasurdo
Winners: Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Daniel Grebow, Try Lam, Eric Gustafson, Mark Wallace, Nitin Arora, Damon Landau, Aline Zimmer, Mar Vaquero – Jet Propulsion Laboratories
2nd ranked: Dario Izzo, Daniel Hennes, Luis Felismino Simoes, Marcus Maartens, Chit Hong Yam, Stefano Campagnola, Hermani Heimonen – ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team and JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
3d ranked: Ryan P. Russell and team members – University of Texas at Austin
GTOC6:
Organizers: Anastassios E. Petropoulos
Winners: Lorenzo Casalino, Guido Colasurdo, Dario Pastrone, Francesco Simeoni, Francesca Letizia, Stefano Federici, Alessandro Longo, Alessandro Zavoli – Politecnico di Torino and Universita` di Roma “Sapienza”, Dipertimenti di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale
2nd ranked: Dario Izzo, Luis Felismino Simoes , Aurelie Heritier, Guido de Croon, Marcus Marteens, Chit Hong Yam, Tsz Yan So, Kin Chiu Chu, Kai Yin Leung , Hermanni J. E. Heimonen, Kwing Lam Chan, Kwok Yee Michael Wong – European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
3d ranked: Ryan P. Russell and team members – University of Texas at Austin
GTOC5:
Organizers: Ilia S. Grigoriev and Maxim P. Zapletin
Winners: Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Eugene P. Bonfiglio, Daniel J. Grebow, Try Lam, Jeffrey S. Parker, Juan Arrieta, Damon F. Landau, Rodney L. Anderson, Eric D. Gustafson, Gregory J. Whiffen, Paul A. Finlayson, Jon A. Sims – Jet Propulsion Laboratories
2nd ranked: Lorenzo Casalino, Dario Pastrone, Francesco Simeoni, Guido Colasurdo, Alessandro Zavoli – Politecnico di Torino, Universita’ di Roma
3d ranked: Junfeng Li, Hexi Baoyin, Fanghua Jiang, Yang Chen, Yuechong Liu – Tsinghua University
GTOC4:
Organizer: Regis Bertrand
Winners: Maxim Zapletin, Elena Zapletina, Ilia Grigoriev, Julia Plotnikova – Moscow State University – Department of Mechanics and Mathematics
2nd ranked: – Aerospace Corporation
3d ranked: Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani, Chit Hong Yam and Joris Olympio – European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team
GTOC3:
Organizer: Lorenzo Casalino
Winners: Jean-Paul Berthias, Regis Bertrand, Richard Epenoy, Jacques Foliard, Flavien Mercier, Benoıt Meyssignac- Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
2nd ranked: Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Jon Sims, Gregory Whiffen, Theresa Kowalkowski, Daniel Parcher, Paul Finlayson, Try Lam, Damon Landau, Brent Buffington – Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Guidance, Navigation and Control Section
3d ranked: Ryan Russell, Robert Braun, Richard Otero, Kristina Alemany, Gregory Lantoine, Nitin Arora, Benjamin A. Stahl, Bradley Steinfeldt, Robert Thompson, Ep Pravitra, Sean Blackman, Sachin Jain, Tamil Periasamy, Matthew Miller, Daniel Garmendia, Brandon Smith, Grant Wells – Georgia Institute of Technology – Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
GTOC2:
Organizer: Anastassios E. Petropoulos
Winners: Lorenzo Casalino, Guido Colasurdo, Matteo Rosa Sentinella, Francesco Cacciatore – Turin Polytechnic, Department of Energetic
2nd ranked: Michael S.Konstantinov, Gennady G. Fedotov, Viacheslav G. Petukhov- Moscow Aviation Institute, Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
3d ranked: Dario Izzo, Tamas Vinko, Claudio Bombardelli, Stefan Brendelberger, Simone Centuori – European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team
GTOC1:
Organizer: Dario Izzo
Winners: Anastassios E. Petropoulos, Gregory J. Whiffen, Jon A. Sims, Carl G. Sauer, Chen-Wan L. Yen, Paul A. Finlayson, Edward A. Rinderle, Ryan P. Russell, Daniel W. Parcher, Theresa D. Kowalkowski, Try Lam, Seungwon Lee, Nathan J. Strange, Jennie R. Johannesen, Steven N. Williams – Jet Propulsion Laboratories
2nd ranked: Miguel Belló, Juan L. Cano – Deimos Space
3d ranked: Mariella Graziano, Tomas Prieto, Jesus Gil, Carlos Corral, Raul Cadenas – GMV