This edition was organised by Gregory Whiffen, Mark Wallace, Damon Landau, Etienne Pellegrini, Gregory Lantoine, Anastassios Petropoulos, Sungmoon Choi, Brian Anderson, Zubin Olikara, Jon Sims of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Outer Planets Mission Analysis Group. The official competition web site can be found here.
In a nutshell
The theme of GTOC13 was “The Altaira System” — humanity’s first robotic exploration of a fictional exoplanetary system designed by JPL. Centered around Altaira, a star slightly brighter and more massive than the Sun, the system features multiple habitable-zone planets and others with no solar system analogues, including the hot Jupiter Vulcan. The challenge envisioned a 200-year solar-sailing mission to explore and map the system’s diverse worlds.
The files sent by JPL to describe the problem are:
- Problem statement
- Problem data: comets.csv, asteroids.csv, planets.csv
- Submission format
The winners
Led by Fanghua Jiang and Hexi Baoyin, together with their team Jialong Song, Yuming Tao, Rundao Li, Yi Zhou, Yiyang Qin, Kinthong Lee, Yixuan Wu, Nan Zhang, the THU-LAD team from Tsinghua University’s School of Aerospace Engineering won the competition.
The Workshop
TBA, questions may be addressed to gtoc13@jpl.nasa.gov.
The solutions
You can have a peak to the various solutions submitted from JPL website … soon some more analysis will be also posted here.