Establishing a sustainable mining expedition for the asteroids of the main belt over the 2035–2050 horizon is the visionary problem of the 12th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition. A fleet of mining ships must...
supported by the Space Debris and Near-Earth Asteroid Defense Research Project(KJSP2023020303);Youliang Wang is grateful to the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2022146).
Asteroid mining is a potentially lucrative method for extracting resources from space. Water resources found on asteroids can serve as fuel supplies for spacecrafts in deep space, and some asteroids are rich in precio...
The 12th Global Trajectory Optimization Competition challenged teams to design trajectories for mining asteroids and transporting extracted resources back to the Earth. This paper outlines the methods and results of t...
This paper presents the solutions and results of the 12th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC12) of the National University of Defense and Technology. To address the complex interstellar mi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12022214,U21B2050,and 12302058);the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program of CAST(Grant No.2023QNRC001).
Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering organized the 12th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC12) on June 19, 2023. The problem for GTOC12, entitled “Sustai...
In 2023, the 12th edition of Global Trajectory Competition was organized around the problem referred to as “Sustainable Asteroid Mining”. This paper reports the developments that led to the solution proposed by ESA...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12372046 and 12102177);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20220130).
This paper presents the results and design methods of team Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the 12th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. To address the problem of sustainabl...
We present the solution approach developed by the team“TheAntipodes”during the 12th edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition(GTOC12).An overview of the approach is as follows:(1)generate asteroid su...