We had astrophotography session , DSLR camera handling session.
We also had night sky observation session.
No significant work was done.
This year's Problem Statement was released today.
We read the problem description and tried to realize the intricacies of the problem.
We had a Club-Level evaluation of our projects, where we explained our progress and future plans for the project.
We read the Lecture Notes of a course provided by MIT Open Course Ware - Astrodynamics (16.346 Fall 2008)<http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-346-astrodynamics-fall-2008/index.htm>
We read the Lecture Notes of a course provided by MIT Open Course Ware - Astrodynamics (16.346 Fall 2008)<http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-346-astrodynamics-fall-2008/index.htm>
We had a look on the fifth problem of GTOC and saw its answer as a simulation in a Youtube Video.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDkCSbbmTU>
Again, we switched back to discussing the intricacies of the first GTOC problem.
We tried the same problem as yesterday (Save the Earth). We read about the technical terms used in the problem.
-> Had no clue how to proceed.
-> Researched about many technical terms used in the problem
-> Saw the solution and simulations related to the problem.
-> Started reading the lecture notes of MIT OpenCousreWare 16.346 (Astrodynamics, Fall 2008)
-> Registered for the contest by sending an e-mail to the concerned person.
-> Had a look on Problem Statemen t5 and its solution simultaneously following the course.
What we plan to do next: Try to solve some smaller, beginner level problems on trajectory optimization, before proceeding to harder ones