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31 May
posted 6 days, 13 hours ago by Kartikeya Srivastava

We had astrophotography session , DSLR camera handling session.
We also had night sky observation session.
No significant work was done.

30 May
posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Kartikeya Srivastava

We realized that this year's problem was much higher than the level we could work out. So we decided that we must contain ourselves to the first Problem Statement ...

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29 May
posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Kartikeya Srivastava

Nothing of much importance was done in context of this project.

28 May
posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Kartikeya Srivastava

We tried to understand the problem statement of GTOC 8.

27 May
posted 1 week, 6 days ago by Kartikeya Srivastava

This year's Problem Statement was released today.
We read the problem description and tried to realize the intricacies of the problem.

26 May
posted 2 weeks ago by Vagish Choudhary

We had a Club-Level evaluation of our projects, where we explained our progress and future plans for the project.

25 May
posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Vagish Choudhary

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>

24 May
posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Vagish Choudhary

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>

23 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

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>

22 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

All the people gave presentations on topics of their choice.

21 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

Again, we switched back to discussing the intricacies of the first GTOC problem.

20 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

We researched some more topics related to interplanetary travel.

19 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

We tried the same problem as yesterday (Save the Earth). We read about the technical terms used in the problem.

18 May
posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Vagish Choudhary

Glanced over the first problem of GTOC (Problem 1 : Save the Earth). Thought of some possible scenarios for which the problem could be worked out, but couldn't reach a ...

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Where we are standing right now.
added 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Vagish Choudhary
-> Saw the first problem statement (Save the Earth)

-> 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