Elena Malz  will present and defend her PhD dissertation "Airborne Wind Energy - To fly or not to fly?" on 29 September 2020, 13:00 -- 16:00 CET, online. Elena started in 2016 as AWESCO PhD researcher at Chalmers University of Technology under the supervision of Sebastien Gros. Her work was part of the work package 2 on "System Design and Optimization" of airborne wind energy systems.  The presentation will be public. More details, including the PDF of the dissertation, can be...

Makani is sharing 13 years of technical development and insights with the world via The Energy Kite Collection — a three-part technical report written by members of our team accompanied by resources including Makani’s open source Makani’s entire avionics, flight controls and simulation code repositories, flight logs for every crosswind flight of the M600 prototype, technical videos, and a non-assertion pledge for the free use of Makani’s worldwide patent portfolio.Also a feature length film to share Makani's journey from soft...

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. https://medium.com/kitekraft/kitekraft-completes-flight-in-figure-eights-c84d787f3715 https://youtu.be/F9gq9Bp3-Jg ...