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Long Duration Flight Confidence gained

Kitekraft has reached a technological inflection point through a test campaign completed over the past months. The flight test campaign showed a significant increase in flight duration and distance traveled. This technological proof point was achieved thanks to the various implementations and advancements of this year.

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Kitekraft Completes Flights with Full Sensor Redundancy

Kitekraft has completed several flights with full sensor redundancy and other reliability enhancements. With these new developments, a Kitekraft system is now so robust, that any sensor at the kite or at the ground station can be lost, but the system detects that failure, remains in a safe state, and lands normally in hovering to the ground station for inspection. This capability marks another milestone for Kitekraft and its focus on safety and high reliability.

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Kitekraft completes wind tunnel test campaign

Kitekraft has recently completed another successful test campaign in the wind tunnel. Two aspects of its flying wind turbine design could be veryfied: Hovering in high winds, which is crucial for take-off and landing, and the performance of newly designed carbon fiber reinforced plastic rotors.

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Tech-Deep-Dive: How Kitekraft Solves Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics is an interesting and one of the most challenging fields of science and engineering. You can even win $1 million if you can contribute to the understanding of the underlying math. In this blog post we want to share our take on it!

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Do We Need Flying Wind Turbines? (Spoiler: Absolutely!)

In this blog post we talk about different technologies that play a role in solving the climate crisis, because this is not a one-technology show. However, the differences between the different technologies can be significant and also vary a lot when looking at different metrics. This time, we'll put the focus on material usage - inspired by Bill Gates' new book "How to avoid a climate disaster".

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How to Develop Flying Wind Turbines Quickly and Cost-Efficiently?

In August this year, we celebrated the milestone of flying figure eights for the first time with our kite. In this blog post, we share some of the ingredients that enabled this fast pace development.

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Kitekraft succeeds with autonomous all phase flight of new kite demonstrator

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a major milestone in our development towards our first 100kW product with a successful flight in all phases. The flight was fully autonomous apart from giving high level commands to launch and land.

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Taking over the Baton from Makani

With Makani's discontinuation we make use of their data open-sourcing and reflect on their achievements, possible mistakes, and our interpretation and anticipation of them.

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Digitizing Energy Generation

We are proud to announce that Kitekraft is a winner of the “Gründerwettbewerb Digitale Innovationen” (a startup competition on digital innovations) awarded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

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Which Energy Technology has the Lowest CO2-Footprint?

Renewable energy technologies must take over the global energy generation quickly, so that we achieve the 2 °C goal and prevent the tipping of our planet’s climate. But which energy technology has the lowest CO2-footprint, i.e. which energy technology is the cleanest?

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Long Duration Flight Confidence gained

Kitekraft Completes Flights with Full Sensor Redundancy

Kitekraft completes wind tunnel test campaign

Tech-Deep-Dive: How Kitekraft Solves Aerodynamics

Do We Need Flying Wind Turbines? (Spoiler: Absolutely!)

How to Develop Flying Wind Turbines Quickly and Cost-Efficiently?

Kitekraft succeeds with autonomous all phase flight of new kite demonstrator

Taking over the Baton from Makani

Digitizing Energy Generation

Which Energy Technology has the Lowest CO2-Footprint?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe program under Grant Agreement No. 101084216

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Technology

Long Duration Flight Confidence gained

Kitekraft Completes Flights with Full Sensor Redundancy

Kitekraft completes wind tunnel test campaign

Tech-Deep-Dive: How Kitekraft Solves Aerodynamics

Do We Need Flying Wind Turbines? (Spoiler: Absolutely!)

How to Develop Flying Wind Turbines Quickly and Cost-Efficiently?

Kitekraft succeeds with autonomous all phase flight of new kite demonstrator

Taking over the Baton from Makani

Digitizing Energy Generation

Which Energy Technology has the Lowest CO2-Footprint?

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe program under Grant Agreement No. 101084216

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