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Asteroid billiard: most asteroid flybys before a rendezvous (GTOC4)

Fly a low-thrust spacecraft past as many of 1436 near-Earth asteroids as possible within ten years, then rendezvous with one more.

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	1	+{
	2	+ "domain": "engineering-energy",
	3	+ "topics": [
	4	+ "aerospace-trajectory"
	5	+ ],
	6	+ "type": "design",
	7	+ "benchmark": {
	8	+ "task": "Maximize the number of asteroid flybys before a final rendezvous",
	9	+ "metric": {
	10	+ "name": "Asteroids flown by (ties: higher final mass)",
	11	+ "better": "higher"
	12	+ },
	13	+ "baseline": {
	14	+ "name": "Winning score, Moscow State University (GTOC4, 2009)",
	15	+ "score": 44
	16	+ }
	17	+ },
	18	+ "source": {
	19	+ "key": "gtoc",
	20	+ "name": "Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition",
	21	+ "url": "https://sophia.estec.esa.int/gtoc_portal/?page_id=23",
	22	+ "id": "GTOC4",
	23	+ "curator": "ESA Advanced Concepts Team",
	24	+ "poser": "Régis Bertrand, Richard Epenoy and Benoît Meyssignac (CNES)",
	25	+ "status": "past edition, closed March 2009",
	26	+ "as_of": "2026-10-20",
	27	+ "catalog": "0521c19bbd38"
	28	+ }
	29	+}