Country Lead - Germany

Power lines, gas pipelines and railways are still inspected the way they were 50 years ago: by helicopter.

Expensive, noisy, and up to a tonne of CO₂ per flight hour.

We built the alternative.

The HyLighter is a 12-metre autonomous airship running on hydrogen.

It flies for up to 10 hours, almost silently, and spots a 1 mm defect from 25 metres up.

But the airship is only half the story.

Every flight brings back massive amounts of LiDAR, imagery and methane data, and that’s where the value is.

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