Kitekraft completes first grid-fed autonomous power flight
Kitekraft completed the full flight cycle with its grid-connected demonstrator and fed generated electricity into the German grid.
Evidence notes
- The test covered grid-powered hover launch, transition into figure-eight flight, airborne power generation, return to hover and landing.
- The kite and ground station operated autonomously apart from high-level launch and land commands.
- Kitekraft had also completed more than 100 autonomous docking and undocking cycles at the test site.
Company context
Kitekraft builds flying wind turbines. The Munich company develops autonomous aerial hardware for renewable energy generation.