GTOC13 Workshop --- July 22

The GTOC13 Workshop will take place as follows:

• Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
• Location: Caltech Campus, Pasadena, California, USA.
  
• Contact: gtoc13@jpl.nasa.gov
• Website: https://gtoc.jpl.net/gtoc13/announcements/
• Expression of interest: as soon as practicable.
• Registration: by May 22nd, please (as practicable).
• There is no registration fee.
• Attendance is open to all interested researchers.

We invite all teams to attend the workshop to present their work and interact with the other teams. Please email gtoc13@jpl.nasa.gov to register your interest in attending the workshop, and whether you would like to present your work. There will be oral presentations as well as poster presentations possible. More details will be forthcoming.

Also in July around the time of the GTOC13 Workshop, and also at Caltech, there will be two separate exoplanet workshops that will surely be of interest:

• Shifting Landscapes in Astrophysics: New Frontiers to Explore with Roman (July 13 - 16, 2026)
• 2026 Sagan Summer Workshop: Exoplanets with Roman Surveys: Microlensing and Transits, (July 20-24, 2026)

Please register for these workshops separately, at their respective websites if you would like to participate in them.

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GTOC 13 Winners :: THU-LAD

Congratulations to the School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Astrodynamics for securing the best solution for GTOC 13 by the close of the intense competition!

Well-done to the Team Leads, Professor Hexi Baoyin and Professor Fanghua Jiang, along with their full team of Jialong Song, Yuming Tao, Rundao Li, Yi Zhou, Yiyang Qin, Kinthong Lee, Yixuan Wu, Nan Zhang, Fanghua Jiang, and Hexi Baoyin.

A great thank you to all the teams, including many newcomers both to GTOC and to astrodynamics, who dedicated their non-trivial efforts to make this competition a very exciting one to follow.

An interactive trajectory plot of the winning trajectory is presented here. And below is a "wheel plot" representation of the trajectory. A legend for the plot and results from other Leaderboard solutions are shown on the Results page.