Uno Blog: All posts tagged "Demonstrator"

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.

Technology

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.

Company

First grid-connected flight with power production

Kitekraft has completed a first flight with its recently installed grid connection. Even though wind conditions were not ideal, some power was generated and fed into the German power grid.

Company

Kitekraft Connects Flying Wind Turbine Demonstrator to Public Grid

As a first of its kind, Kitekraft connected its test site to Germany's public electricity grid. This marks a crucial step towards the commercialization of Kitekraft's flying wind turbine technology.

Technology

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.

Technology

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.

Technology

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.

Technology

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.

Company

Kitekraft Completes Flight in Figure-Eights

We hit a major milestone by completing our first figure-eight flight. We are proud that we came to this point in just over one year after company foundation. Below is a video.

Company

Kitekraft Unveils 5kW Kite

Today’s energy generation is dirty. Renewable energy technologies are not yet cost-effective enough and are therefore not deployed fast enough. According to climate scientists, only a few decades are left to reduce global anthropogenic CO2 emissions to zero, so that we achieve the 2°C goal and prevent the tipping of our planet’s climate. This is a short time span for achieving such a goal, which is only possible through improved renewable energy technologies.

Demonstrator

Long Duration Flight Confidence gained

Kitekraft Completes Flights with Full Sensor Redundancy

First grid-connected flight with power production

Kitekraft Connects Flying Wind Turbine Demonstrator to Public Grid

Kitekraft completes wind tunnel test campaign

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

Kitekraft Completes Flight in Figure-Eights

Kitekraft Unveils 5kW Kite

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