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“I am very proud of the team’s hard work, and we are achieving yet another significant milestone in the history of our company,” Kongsberg’s President Martin Wien Fjell said.

“The project has been delivered in record time, and a huge thank you to everybody who has contributed to this success,”

“This is also an excellent way to celebrate our first anniversary as Kongsberg Discovery. The customer is also pleased and genuinely impressed by the work accomplished by Kongsberg Discovery,” he added.

HUGIN Endurance is now ready for delivery

Fjell explains that the HUGIN Endurance program had received significant attention from the defense sector and commercial operators before the latest trials. Completing these critical trials will enable Kongsberg to begin fulfilling its orders.

“Endurance can accommodate whatever kind of payload a customer wants, whether for seabed mapping or inspection, oceanography, continuous surveys of offshore wind parks, or as a surveillance tool for critical subsea infrastructure or changes in ecosystems,” Fjell explained.

“To achieve the first system delivery is a significant milestone, and we will continue to develop additional capabilities. HUGIN Endurance enters the market as a game-changer,” he said.

The HUGIN Endurance is the largest AUV in the family, manufactured by Kongsberg’s subsidiary, Kongsberg Discovery. It was first launched in 2021 and comes equipped with various modular sensors and other gear.

The HUGIN series of drones was first introduced in the 1990s, with the Endurance’s siblings completing more commercial underwater surveys than any other UAVs, according to Kongsberg.

The most advanced of the series

These include a high-resolution synthetic aperture sonar (HISAS 1032 Dual RX) capable of wide-swath imaging, a multibeam echo sounder (EM 2040 MkII), a sub-bottom profiling system, a color camera, and a laser profiler. It also comes with a magnetometer and environmental sensors that collect data on conductivity, temperature, sound speed, methane, CO2, and O2 concentration.

HUGIN Endurance has a spacious and customizable interior that can store various batteries and other payloads as needed. It is designed to operate autonomously from the shore, and with a full set of batteries, it can travel up to 1,200 nautical miles (2,200 km) for up to 15 days at sea.

It can also autonomously map 425 square miles (1,100 km2) of the ocean floor and has a depth rating of 19,685 feet (6,000 meters). HUGIN Endurance includes most of the industry-leading abilities found in previous HUGIN vehicles.

However, new advancements were made to enable long-term unsupported missions. These advancements include greater redundancy, a new autonomous mission management system, increased situational awareness, and the ability to deal with varying water density.

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