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[b]Final Update and Full Refund[/b] When we announced plans for our crowdfunding campaign, "ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone," the support from the Kickstarter community was (and still is) amazing! Our goal was lofty, and with your support, we raised a record-setting US$1.5 million in funds to support it. Thank you so much for the constant encouragement. You've provided us the support to try out a bold new idea with the potential for huge impact both on and off this planet. So far, we have fulfilled the many T-shirt, sticker, and poster Rewards. We've provided scores of memberships to The Planetary Society, codes for the video game Planetary Annihilation, and developed an educational rocket science board game in partnership with Xtronaut Enterprises. In addition to these Kickstarter-funded activities, we've also progressed on our company roadmap and built and launched two Arkyd-3 test spacecraft (the first didn't make it very far off the ground!), and our two follow-on Arkyd-6 test satellites are finished and waiting for their next launch into space this summer. All this leads to the Arkyd 100 Space Telescope capability. When we closed the campaign in June of 2013, we were confident that the tremendous enthusiasm from around the world would translate into continued financial support outside of the Kickstarter community to move our idea forward... but, what we discovered was unfortunate. Aside from all the progress we made in the underlying technology, the follow-on interest from the business and educational sectors to expand the ARKYD campaign into a fully-supported mission did not exist as we had anticipated. We have explored and exhausted a variety of opportunities big and small for the financial backing necessary to complete the project. Due to the lack of necessary follow-on support, we are saddened to announce that we are unable to fulfill the "ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone" campaign. While we regret we must wind-down the project, we are pleased that we can offer each of our 17,614 backers an immediate and full refund, with our sincere thanks for your longstanding support.
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