Kitekraft
@kiteKRAFT_tech
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Building flying wind turbines. (YC S19)
Munich, Bavaria
Joined March 2019
Hey everybody, we are again livestreaming one of our test flights! Tune if you want to see the the future of wind power in the making. Have any questions about Airborne Wind Energy? Just ask in the chat. ▶️ Link in the thread.
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chairman of Enerwhere, who explains exactly why Kitekraft systems are a match for their customers and endeavours. 💯. 📰 You can also directly go to the blog post: #DER #Sustainability #AirborneWindEnergy.
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In this blog post series, we shed light on Kitekraft's customers. We tell you what they do, what their vision is, and how our technology can help them to achieve it. Once our product is on the market...
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✉ Read our latest newsletter here: ❗❗ Featured in it is the first episode of our new blog post series: Customer Stories! This episode sheds lights on Enerwhere - a microgrid developer from the Middle East. We interviewed Daniel Zywietz, Founder and.
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clearly be seen, with greener figure of eights later into the flight, when the AI controller was doing its magic ✨. The perfect symmetry of our flight path can also be seen in the stunning night shots from the wonderful @JuJuSmally 🤩.
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closer to the power zone in which power generation is optimal:.🤖 AI controller.🎮 Improved AoA and AoS control parameters. 💪 Extended tether force controllers. This can also be seen in the pictures below: During one of our flights the improvement of the trajectory can. .
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One of the things our team was able to lock in the during the latest test campaign is an improved flight path. Thanks to the following updates and additions to our control software, our flight path is now 27% more compact, .
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📰 Want to know the details and how we did it?.Go to our bog and read the full post: #AirborneWindEnergy #Sustainability #Hardtech #AWEurope.
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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...
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🔎 We've already share some insights into our recent flights, but this one could be titles the most exciting one!. 📈 As you can see in the graphs for accumulated flight distance, you can see a steep increase during this year. And this is just the beginning.
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To get notified when we do another live-stream, subscribe to our newsletter ( and to our YouTube channel (!. #AirborneWindEnergy #Sustainability #Hardtech #AWEurope.
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Kitekraft builds flying wind turbines, also known as airborne wind energy systems. Our technology's main component is a tethered electric aircraft, a.k.a. a kite. The kite has 8 onboard (flying) wind...
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Mother nature helped to paint this one, with a spectacular thunderstorm in the safe distance. ⚡. 📺 Video-link:
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Last week, we already teased you with some pictures from our latest flights. In this post we have even more eye-candy for you: The footage from our last flight, which we live-streamed to YouTube!
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This is what happened since:.🌑 Night flights.🕔 Longest flights ever, recently crossing the 5h mark!.💻 New+updated controllers.📈 Improved flight path with 27% higher efficiency.🤖 Real-time optimization thanks to AI. #AirborneWindEnergy #Sustainability #Hardtech #AWEurope
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Additionally, other system upgrades, like the Anti-Collision-Lights, allow us to now fly 24-7 - See them in action in the stunning sunset shot below! 🤩. In our last newsletter we already talked about the complete sensor redundancy of our systems.
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the performance of our systems. Thanks to our simulation software which models reality precisely, we can simulate and pre-tune new controllers before we implement and test them in reality. In the end, this results in much better flight performance and stability.
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📝 In the next couple of posts, we want to give some more insights into our current test campaign, what it is aimed at, and which boxes we've already checked. 👨🔧 👩🔧 Our test engineers have been pumping up flight numbers the past months and we were able to significantly improve. .
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We are still live and going strong in our third flight - tune in! .
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Pssst. we've got something coming for you! 🎁. Make sure to check out See you tomorrow 🚀. #surprise #AWE #NetZero.
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Watch livestreams of our flying wind turbines in operation!
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We'd like to thank our partners at Luftfahrt-Bundesamt and are looking forward to our future collaboration. 📰 Read all the details about it and what our CEO Dr.-Ing. Florian Bauer thinks about it in our latest blog post: #AWES #WindEnergy #NetZero.
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The permit includes authorization to fly at night, fully automatically, and without personnel on site, marking a pivotal moment for the company's path to commercialization.
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👷♂️ without personell at the site (beyond visual line of sight - BVLOS),. 💻 automatically - fly exactly as in the intended commercial operation. This is a huge step for Kitekraft towards commercialization and validation for our approach.
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