5th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition

Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Vladimir Vasilievich Beletskij. Beletskij Vladimir Vasilievich (2.05.1930), Soviet and Russian scientist, corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences and professor at Moscow State University, is a prominent expert in celestial mechanics and spaceflight theory.

"Спутник-1" — the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched into an orbit in the USSR on October, 4th, 1957.

Competition details:

1. List of registered teams.

Problem details:

1. Problem description (Revised 14.10.10).
2. List of asteroids.
3. Format of solution file.
4. Favorite asking questions.

Results:

Congratulations to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) team for winning the competition!

1. Ranking.
2. Verification.
3. Teams summary

Workshop

The schedule:
9.00 - 10.00 Meeting and registration of participants (Entrance in MSU);
10.00 - 10.10 Opening of the GTOC5 workshop;
10.10 - 12.45 Teams' reports, award;
13.00 Lunch break, excursion to Moscow State University museum (28 floor);
15.30 - 16.50 Discussion;
17.00 Dinner.

Presentation

• Team-organizer MSU report
• College of Aerospace and Material Engineering, National University Of Defense Technology (China). Team 26 and Team 17: pdf-file, ppt-file.
• VEGA Deutschland (Germany).
• DLR, Institute of Space Systems (Germany).
• ESA-ACT and Global Optimization Laboratory.
• JPL NASA (USA).

Photo

Contact Information:

E-mail:

Maxim Zapletin: zapletin_m@mail.ru

Elena Zapletina: ezaplet@mech.math.msu.su

For more details on the GTOC competition please refer to the ESA web site.

Last updated: 12.09.2011