Technology

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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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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The Kitekraft Master Plan

Find out about the idea behind Kitekraft's approach: Enabled by our efficient design we want to start with smaller systems. Then scale up. Then scale up again. And continue to do so until we reach the MW range.