{"id":7,"date":"2012-11-13T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:53:52","slug":"the-americas-cup-of-engineers-and-mathematicians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/","title":{"rendered":"The America&#8217;s cup of rocket science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Global Trajectory Optimization Competition is an event taking place every one-two years over roughly one month during which the best aerospace&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;and mathematicians world wide challenge themselves to solve a &#8220;nearly-impossible&#8221; problem of interplanetary trajectory design. The problem is released by the winning team of the previous edition who, also, is free to define entirely the competition rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">The problem needs to be related to interplanetary trajectory design and its complexity high &nbsp;enough to ensure a clear competition winner. Over the years, the various problem&nbsp;statements&nbsp;and solutions returned, collected in this website, will form a&nbsp;formidable&nbsp;database of experiences, solutions and challenges&nbsp;for the scientific community.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"77\" src=\"http:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Laurelin21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\" title=\"Laurelin2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Laurelin21.png 472w, https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Laurelin21-300x48.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GTOC competitions are opened to everybody, to participate to the next edition, join the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/gtoc_competition\">GTOC Google Group<\/a> and you will receive the next call for participation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignleft is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" src=\"http:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/esa_logo-300x148.png\" alt=\"European Space Agency\" class=\"wp-image-284\" title=\"esa_logo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/esa_logo-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/esa_logo.png 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Any suggestions for improving the content of these pages should be mailed to dario_dot_izzo_at_esa_dot_int.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Trajectory Optimization Competition is an event taking place every one-two years over roughly one month during which the best aerospace&nbsp;engineers&nbsp;and mathematicians world wide challenge themselves to solve a &#8220;nearly-impossible&#8221; problem of interplanetary trajectory design. The problem is released by the winning team of the previous edition who, also, is free to define entirely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The America&#8217;s cup of rocket science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophia.estec.esa.int\/gtoc_portal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}