GTOC 13
13th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition
Updates to Team membership may be emailed to gtoc13@jpl.nasa.gov.
Thank you.
Team 1
Name: NablaZeroLabs
Members: Juan Arrieta, Frank Laipert
Affiliations: Nabla Zero Labs (USA)
Location: Pasadena, California
Team 2
Name: Jena Mission Control
Members: Ingo Althöfer, Dietmar Wolz
Affiliations: Institut für Mathematik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Location: Jena, Germany
Team 3
Name: VidTeam
Members: David Clark, Stephen Clark
Affiliations: Independent
Location: New Zealand
Team 4
Name: ACT&Friends
Members: Dario Izzo, Giacomo Acciarini, Max Bannach, Laurent Beauregard, Leone Costi, Sean Cowan, Jai Grover, Alex Hadjivanov, Harry Holt; Marcus Maertens, Zhong Zhang, Yuri Shimane, Shota Ito, Chit Hong Yam, Tat-Jun Chin
Affiliations: ESA Advanced Concepts Team; Independent
Location: World
Team 5
Name: Matabiau Space Center
Members: Noé Charpigny, Aurélien Félin, Clément Gazzino, Gachet Fabien, Nicolas Delong, Vincent Ruch
Affiliations: Matabiau Space Center
Location: France
Team 6
Name: Heidenberger
Members: Ian Heidenberger
Affiliations: Starfish Space, Georgia Tech Computer Science
Location: USA
Team 7
Name: TheAntipodes
Members: Jack Yarndley, Daniel Clark, Adam Evans, Minduli Wijayatunga (1), Roberto Armellin, Xingyu Zhou (2), Luca Gao, Lee Violet Ong, Cristina Parigini, Alberto Fossà (3), Vishwas Jajpura (4), Nathan Wallace (5), William Zhou (6), Oliver Gwatkin, Marco Moschetta, Emanuele Nasini, Lorenzo Anoè
Affiliations: Te Pūnaha Ātea - Space Institute, University of Auckland; (1) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; (2) Beijing Institute of Technology (3) Vyoma GmbH; (4) KaleidEO Space Systems; (5) Australian Centre for Robotics, University of Sydney; (6) University of Auckland
Location:
Team 8
Name: Univ Tokyo
Members: Yosuke Kawabata, Shunta Oi, Sourav Ghosh; Kazuma Fujimoto
Affiliations: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Tokyo; ArkEdge Space Inc.
Location: Japan
Team 9
Name: The Kobayashi Porkchop Plotters
Members: Stavros Sklavenitis, Francisco Casals Hernández, Paul Coleman, Marita Georganta, Fábio Miguel Pereira Morgado, Jake Randell, Konstantinos Alexandros Sarantopoulos,
Affiliations: Open Cosmos
Location: Europe
Team 10
Name: Team HRI
Members: Nils Einecke, Steffen Limmer
Affiliations: Honda Research Institute Europe
Location: Germany
Team 11
Name: NUAA & Friends
Members: Hongwei Yang, Yu Zhang, Jincheng Hu, Guoliang Liang, Jiajun Zhu, Zongxuan Liu, Zhuofan Yang, Chunran Gao, Chenyu Zhang; Di Wu
Affiliations: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Beihang University
Location: China
Team 12
Name: SJTU_LAD
Members: Yang Pei, Zhicong Wang, Sheng Sun, Wenjun Zhu, Wei Wang
Affiliations: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Location: China
Team 13
Name: Paradiso Celeste
Members: Mr. Amirhossein Kermani, Dr. Amirhossein Khodabakhsh, Mr. Davide Bua, Mr. Ali Moradi, Ms. Maedeh Taherkhany, Ms. Nadia Pasandideh, Mr. Sina Danyali
Affiliations: Politecnico di Milano, Sharif University of Technology
Location: Italy and Iran
Team 14
Name: K2 Space
Members: Paul DeTrempe, Nicholas Rahaim, Max Kolhof, Kabir Cheema
Affiliations: K2 Space
Location: USA
Team 15
Name: Galactic Halo
Members: Lotfi Massarweh
Affiliations: TU Delft
Location: The Netherlands
Team 16
Name: Advanced Space
Members: Jeff Parker et al.
Affiliations: Advanced Space
Location: USA
Team 17
Name: Team Orbital Wilds
Members: Vikram Srikanth
Affiliations: Independent
Location: India
Team 18
Name: KAIST
Members: Jinsung Lee, Jaemyung Ahn, Jaewoo Kim, Hangyeol Kim, Gunhee Yi
Affiliations: KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Location: Korea
Team 19
Name: The Yellowhammers
Members: Rohan Sood, Matthew Dow, Aaron Houin, Matthew Dow, Hunjoon (Daniel) Lee, Aidan Moran, David Rammel; Davide Guzzetti, Ehsan Taheri, Daniel Tauritz, Pedro Vasconcelos, Joseph Ivarson, Nick Nurre, Zack Fizell, Jeremy Wang, Eirik Mulder, Joe Lin, Luis Postigo Paredes; William B. Stein, Alisha M. Crawley, Terri L. Schmitt, Seth B. Thompson, Megan C. Estrada, Grant A. Arndt, Roger J. Hooper, Adam Harden
Affiliations: University of Alabama; Auburn University; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Location: USA
Team 20
Name: NUDT+XSCC
Members: Ya-Zhong Luo, Yue-He Zhu, Jia-Cheng Zhang, Xiang Guo, Zhen Yang, Yu Zhang, Yue-Long Luo, Han-Wei Wang, Ke Jin, Zhe-Yi Hao, Ling-Yue Kong, Jia-Zhe Zhu, Mei-Xi Shen, Yu-Yang Huang, Meng Zhao, Hai-Yi Wang; Hong-Xin Shen, An-Yi Huang, Zhao Li, Jian-Hui Li, Pei-Yu Li, Chao Sheng, Cong Sun, Jian-Jun Shi
Affiliations: College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology; State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics, Xi'an Satellite Control Center
Location: China
Team 21
Name: the True Anomalies
Members: Romain Serra, Carlos Ortega, Ivan Sumelzo, Marino Benassai, Max Cerf, Davide Martire, Vicenzo Saladino Samy Nait Slimane
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 22
Name: The Perihellions
Members: Gabe McDonald, Frederic Borries IV, and Ben Keosheyan-Cole
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 23
Name: Wolverines
Members: Prof. James Cutler, Prof. Oliver Jia-Richards, Prof. Giusy Falcone, Dr. Felix Biertümpfel, Dr. Eric Gustafson, Kuang Sun, Junpeng Zhou, Jimin Choi, Saikrishna Swaminathan, Sukhyeon Lim, Zihao Zuo
Affiliations: University of Michigan
Location: USA
Team 24
Name: KaiXi8
Members: Kai Xi
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 25
Name: Yume Space
Members: Florian Calatayud; Remy Chevrier
Affiliations: Yume Space; Independent
Location: France
Team 26
Name: Tilion
Members: Henning Wacker
Affiliations: Tilion
Location: Europe
Team 27
Name: PDRM
Members: Pablo Dalda; Diego Robledo Díaz; Rodrigo Mora López, Marco Mellado Zarco
Affiliations: Independent; GMV; Alcalá de Henares University
Location: Europe
Team 28
Name: Catgirl_Chocola_Sama
Members: TBA
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 29
Name: OptimiCS
Members: Vincent Debout, Sébastien Goulet, Vincent Cucchietti, Thibault Sadones, Jérôme Tabeaud, Maxime Journot, Patrice Mathieu
Affiliations: CS Group
Location: France
Team 30
Name: NTUA
Members: Andreas Vatistas, Nikolaos Lappas
Affiliations: NTUA (National Technical University of Athens Greece)
Location: Athens, Greece
Team 31
Name: I.F.S.S.T.
Members: İbrahim Selçuk Öztürk
Affiliations: Turkish Aeronautical Association University
Location: Turkey
Team 32
Name: Bery&Stock
Members: Enrico Bertolazzi, Davide Stocco
Affiliations: University of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering
Location: Trento, Italy
Team 33
Name: Purdue Space Program
Members: Travis Hastreiter, Teresa Wan, Sam Midkiff, Honuanaluikeawaula Kaye, Atharva Awasthi, Ishan Goel, Finn O'Brien, Chloe Johnson, Hyunmin Kim, Jack Hulbert, Chakravarthy Mallarapu, Chance Sullivan, Shaw Siegel
Affiliations: Purdue University
Location: Indiana
Team 34
Name: BIT&Friends
Members: Changxuan Wen, Rui Qi, Yangyuxi Sun, Zhaohang Li, Haojing Zhai, Lvzheng He, Yuzhou Chai, Zihan Jin, Run Luo, Zhuoling Liu, Junxiao Lin, Yuxiang Liu, Shengmao He, Chao Peng, Meng Lu, Zhengfan Zhu, Yang Zhang, Xiaokang Wang, Demeng Xiao, Yong Liu, Qi Ouyang, Lei Liu
Affiliations: Beijing Institute of Technology; Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai; Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization; Chinese Academy of Sciences; DFH Satellite Co., Ltd.; Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Aerospace Control Center
Location: China
Team 35
Name: THU-LAD
Members: Jialong Song, Yuming Tao, Rundao Li, Yi Zhou, Yiyang Qin, Yilin Zou, Jintang Li, Nan Zhang, Fanghua Jiang, and Hexi Baoyin
Affiliations: School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Astrodynamics
Location: China
Team 36
Name: The Vibe Optimizers
Members: Pankaj Saini, Yeshaswini Emmi, Giacomo Moresco, Daniel Ranuschio, Javier Herrera Montojo, Bernard Godard, Benjamin Mayer, Federico Toso
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 37
Name: Local Minima
Members: Arya Das, Pranav Advani, Sudhansu Sahu
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Location: Kanpur, India
Team 38
Name: Cal Poly
Members: Madhusudan Vijayakumar, Kira Abercromby, Juliet Jaeren, Jorge Ayala, Kayla Wong, Drew Stockton, Cliodhna McGugain, Daniella Luciani, Isai Villanueva, Perry Crowe, Cian Trinen, Caleb Arberton, Paige Jewell, Sydney Walsh
Affiliations: Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, Cal Poly - SLO
Location: California
Team 39
Name: HUNTL/CS
Members: Sung Jun Kim, Minchae Kim, Dong-Woo Han, Han-Lim Choi
Affiliations: KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Location: Korea
Team 40
Name: WORHP for Space
Members: Matthias Knauer
Affiliations: Univ. of Bremen
Location: Germany
Team 41
Name: IMUT-LAD
Members: Zicong An, Haiyang Li, Yunfeng Gao, Zhong Xue, Zhijie Li, Ou Li, Tianming Ren, Ze Li, Shengjie Zhang, Yuxi Zhao
Affiliations: Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Deep Space Exploration Laboratoy
Location: China
Team 42
Name: DLR
Members: Marcus Hallmann, Markus Schlotterer, Livia Ionescu, Ansgar Heidecker
Affiliations: DLR
Location: Germany
Team 43
Name: 10dimensions
Members: Vishal
Affiliations: Independent
Location: Bangalore
Team 44
Name: Pink Elephants Group
Members: Alexander Samokhin, Marina Samokhina, Andrey Galyaev; Ludmila Samokhina
Affiliations: V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences (ICS RAS); Central University
Location: Russia
Team 45
Name: Smelly Kat
Members: Prajwal Avhad
Affiliations: Independent
Location: India
Team 46
Name: The Aerospace Corporation
Members: Devin Bunce, James Pezent, Jordan Smiroldo, Tim Sullivan, Jerry Varghese, Brian Patrick, Jason Anderson, Jordan Frederiksen, Adam Trask, George Vardaxis, Tyler Doogan, Pallavi Ravada, Robert Potter, Gregory Fruth, Jared Sikes, Matthew Stockard, Eric Xue, Quinton Dombrowski, Marc DiPrinzio, Patrick Wittick, Daniel Engel, Petra Chow, Matt Werner, Anna Hagen, Benjamin Ford, Aaron Berkoff
Affiliations: The Aerospace Corporation
Location: USA
Team 47
Name: STELLARIS
Members: Subramanian Arumugam, Abhinav Krishnan, Ananthu Krishna, Rachit Bhatia
Affiliations: Independent
Location: World
Team 48
Name: NASA GRC and Friends
Members: Steve McCarty, Rob Falck; Stephanie Y. Zhu
Affiliations: NASA GRC; NASA MSFC
Location: USA
Team 49
Name: Optimus
Members: Anusuya Ghosh
Affiliations: iBS Software Pvt. Ltd.
Location: Trivandrum, India
Team 50
Name: Helios@21
Members: Sawvranu Dey
Affiliations: Independent
Location: India
Team 51
Name: Astron_Dynamics
Members: Jason Pandian & Team
Affiliations: Astron Dynamics, India
Location: India
Team 52
Name: Smooth Manoeuvers
Members: William Polycarpe
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 53
Name: TASTo
Members: Andrea Musacchio, Simone Castello, Carolina Molteni, Michele Pio Savino
Affiliations: Thales Alenia Space - Turin
Location: Torino, Italy
Team 54
Name: Cloud Wings
Members: Han Hongwei, Huang Zhenlei, Li Zhenyu, Tang Rui, Li Qian, Hu Changsu, Guo Guangzheng; Wan Gang, Wu Yitian, Peng Siqing, Zhang Sai, and Duan Jiayu
Affiliations: Beijing Institute of Technology; Space Engineering University
Location: China
Team 55
Name: Kaus Australis
Members: Chen Li
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 56
Name: London Calling
Members: Pablo Gómez Pérez
Affiliations: Independent
Location: UK
Team 57
Name: Gravity Leap
Members: Qi Yi, Ding Ying
Affiliations: Beijing Institute of Technology
Location: China
Team 58
Name: Team Sooraj
Members: Sooraj Suresh
Affiliations: University of Glasgow
Location: UK
Team 59
Name: Zephyr Orbits
Members: Y E Yogapriya, Vijaya Raghavan, Rishab Upadhyay
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 60
Name: Cosmic Duo
Members: Jaga Behera, Merapala Thanuja
Affiliations: Independent
Location: India
Team 61
Name: WPI-LSPE
Members: Ye Lu, Aleksandr Hakobyan, Matthew Di Giovanni, William Scheirey, Jacob Donovan, Jensen Gilbert, Sean Okamoto, Miguel Mejia, Maxwell Jacobson
Affiliations: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Location: USA
Team 62
Name: Team Mehrdad
Members: Mehrdad Mirzaei
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 63
Name: Ctrl+ΔV
Members: Jose Carlos Garcia Mateas, Giovanni Guerriero, Andrea Bellome, Joan Pau Sanchez, Yago Castilla-Lamas
Affiliations: ISAE-SUPAERO
Location: Toulouse, France
Team 64
Name: The Retrogrades
Members: Javier Urrios, Ana Sánchez, Antonio Malaver, Joaquín González, José Antonio Rebollo, José Manuel Montilla, Julio Sánchez, Rafael Vázquez; Gonzalo Zamora
Affiliations: ETSI, Universidad de Sevilla; Sener (Madrid)
Location: Spain
Team 65
Name: Yanqi_6
Members: Yasheng Zhang, Xuefeng Tao, Yakun Zhang, Bin Wang, Zhongtao Zhang, Hongxiang Luo, Xinli Zhu, Xueshuang Shi, Yawen Jiang, Yuke Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Xuyao Wang, Rui Zhou, Qixiang Shen, Zhanyong Feng, Shuailong Zhao, Jinyan Xue, Biao Wang, Haihong Fang
Affiliations: Space Engineering University
Location: China
Team 66
Name: Outer Wilds
Members: Xiaoming Li, Yu Lin, Zijie Shen, Wenyu Zhong
Affiliations: Jinan University
Location: China
Team 67
Name: Dead Sails Tell No Tales
Members: Grant Hevia
Affiliations: Independent
Location: USA
Team 68
Name: Boilernauts
Members: Shalin Sinha, Nivan Gujral, Shreyas Tripathy, Derek Larson; Ezra Dennis
Affiliations: Purdue University; University of Wisconsin - Madison
Location: USA
Team 69
Name: LightCruisers
Members: Aditya Nambiar, Rajat Chakraborty, Hemang Gole, Luke Pereira, Pranav Bavale, Abhijit Mitra
Affiliations: Department of Mechanical Engineering, VJTI
Location: Mumbai, India
Team 70
Name: KeplerianHitchhikers
Members: Vishesh Vatsal, Atharva Dehadraya, Kiran Kadiyala, Chhavi Sahu, C Barath, Vasu Paliwal
Affiliations: Independent
Location: India
Team 71
Name: Swiss astronomy Olympiads
Members: Elouan Massatsch, Lukasz Szeliga, Luis Gördes, Valentine Thürler
Affiliations: Swiss astronomy Olympiads
Location: Switzerland
Team 72
Name: IIST
Members: Devendra Ghate, Ramkumar, Srihari Sajeeva Pillai, Aditya Lakhotia, Adithye Santhosh, Yarroju Rithvik
Affiliations: Institute of Space Science and Technology
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 73
Name: Wanderer Not Lost
Members: Federico Spada
Affiliations: University of Catania
Location: Italy
Team 74
Name: IndoOrbit
Members: Sakshi Sharma, Pranamya Deepak Menaria
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 75
Name: Shunya
Members: Prasad Vilas Arlulkar, Dhanraj Sitaram Warjurkar
Affiliations:
Location:
Team 76
Name: SpatiaLions
Members: Matteo Matrone; Lorenzo Francini, Michele Santarpia
Affiliations: University of Naples Federico II; Independent
Location: Naples, Italy
Team 77
Name: Politecnico di Torino + former students
Members: Lorenzo Casalino, Andrea Forestieri, Alessio Improta, Kemao Wang; Francesco Simeoni, Michele Sannino
Affiliations: Politecnico di Torino; Independent
Location: Italy
Team 78
Name: Gurgentus AS
Members: Gurgen Hayrapetyan
Affiliations: Independent
Location: USA
Team 79
Name: spaceberry
Members: Victor Rodriguez-Fernandez (1), Alejandro Carrasco (2), Iñaki del Campo Sánchez (1), Brandon Ismael Escamilla Estrada (1), Giovanni Lavezzi (2), Miguel Leiva Vélez (1), Richard Linares (2), Miguel Sabater (1), Sergio Sanchez Hurtado (2), Di Wu (3)
Affiliations: (1) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (3) Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Location: Spain and USA
Team 80
Name: DIAG
Members: Andrea Brilli, Edoardo Cesaroni, Lorenzo Ciarpaglini, Ilaria Ciocci, Giulio Scarponi
Affiliations: DIAG (Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome)
Location: Rome, Italy
Team 81
Name: Unidentified Orbiting Objects
Members: Mehmet Fatih Ertürk, Şahin Ulaş Köprücü, Kürşat Yenidoğan, Enes Dağ, Yasin Güngör
Affiliations: Independent
Location: Turkey
Team 82
Name: Patavina Sidera
Members: Riggio Alessandro, Micol Avigliano, Gusso Davide, Giulia Fortuna, Gesuen Cosmin Manole, Gaspari Francesco, Miriana Caporaso, Jirapathiran Hiranpakorn, Ebenaimine Omar Hakim, Giovanni colonello, Mateo Loshi, Giacomo Porcarelli, Carlo Bettanini
Affiliations: Università degli Studi di Padova
Location: Italy
Team 83
Name: Stellar-IV Space
Members: Sanandhu Santhosh, Surendhran P, Yog PravinKumar Saliya, Sumwon Russell A V, Lavanya
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 84
Name: Flying Pandas
Members: Rameshwar S, Mamidala Rushikesh, Chethan B N, Kanishk G
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 85
Name: MG
Members: Matěj Gryc
Affiliations: Brno University of Technology
Location: Czechia
Team 86
Name: Boreal Orbitician
Members: Niklas Zanghellini
Affiliations: Luleå University of Technology
Location: Kiruna, Sweden
Team 87
Name: Trópicos
Members: Gilberto Reynoso Meza, Victor Henrique Alves Ribeiro
Affiliations: Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, PUC-PR
Location: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Team 88
Name: Sunjammers
Members: Ryan P. Russell, Billy Brandenburg, Bryn Fanger, James Leith, Noah Lifset, Chun-Yi Wu
Affiliations: University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Team 89
Name: ThisIsNotAFlyBy
Members: Frank de Veld
Affiliations: INRIA
Location: Nice, France
Team 90
Name: Local Maxima
Members: Samridh Patial, Aman Kumar Rai, Dr. Aravind Vaidyanathan, Dr. Priyadarshnam Hari, Dr. Geethu N, Akansha Varma (1), Rishikesh Anjankar, Sumati Kulkarni
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST); (1) Agnikul
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 91
Name: USyd_Space
Members: Andrian Yasintus, Andrew Tang, Xueliang Bai, Xiaofeng Wu
Affiliations: School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney
Location: Sydney, Australia
Team 92
Name: Team Alone
Members: TBA
Affiliations: Independent
Location: Bengaluru, India
Team 93
Name: Royal Tempest
Members: Akira Tempest
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 94
Name: FlowBadger
Members: Francesco Ferrari
Affiliations: Independent
Location: Italy
Team 95
Name: PIXEL
Members: Adam Saglam
Affiliations: PIXEL
Location: Bonn, Germany
Team 96
Name: AMA
Members: Adam Boylston, Alex Pensado, Bella Shaffer, Sean Greenhalge, Min Qu
Affiliations: Analytical Mechanics Associates
Location: USA
Team 97
Name: DSJ
Members: Shujun Dong
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 98
Name: HAMMERHEAD
Members: Jordan Murphy
Affiliations: Independent
Location: USA
Team 99
Name: Quasarya
Members: Nikta Forouzandeh, Benyamin Ebrahimi, Mahdi Jafari-Nadoushan, Ali Momen, Reza Movazziri, Hannah Aslami
Affiliations: Independent
Location:
Team 100
Name: GradientAscent
Members: Skanda Sundaresan
Affiliations: Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
Location: Thiruvananthapuram, India
Team 101
Name: TM
Members: Tarlan Mammadzada
Affiliations: Independent
Location: Azerbaijan