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Building flying wind turbines. (YC S19)

Munich, Bavaria Katılım Mart 2019
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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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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✉ Read our latest newsletter here: lnkd.in/dYrY8ZFr ❗❗ 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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
🔎 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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
Mother nature helped to paint this one, with a spectacular thunderstorm in the safe distance. ⚡ 📺 Video-link: youtube.com/watch?v=pHFr8Q…
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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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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📝 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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
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: kitekraft.de/blog/kitekraft… #AWES #WindEnergy #NetZero
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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
👷‍♂️ 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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Kitekraft@kiteKRAFT_tech·
More great news to share: Kitekraft received a new flight permit from the German Air authorities, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt. The new permit is the first of its kind for rigid wing Hashtag#AWES and allows us to fly 🌘 at night, thanks to our new, shiny anti collision lights,
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