Audacy is a space communications service provider that aimed to deliver continuous connectivity and real-time data to spacecraft operators. The company was developing a space-based data relay system using Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites and ground stations. Although founded in 2015, the team disbanded around May 2019 and the company shut down.
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Rice Robotics received $7,000,000 in a pre-Series A funding round from SoftBank, Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund, Soul Capital, Audacy Ventures, Sun Hung Kai & Company, and Cyberport HK.
Electro Optic Systems acquired Silicon Valley startup Audacy and established SpaceLink in 2020 to develop a constellation of communications satellites in medium-Earth orbit to relay data between the ground and low-Earth orbit.
Electro Optic Systems Holdings is the parent company of SpaceLink and acquired Silicon Valley startup Audacy in 2020, gaining approximately 21 GHz of radio frequency spectrum.
Electro Optic Systems Holdings Ltd. completed its acquisition of Audacy on 2020-05-28.
Electro Optic Systems purchased EM Solutions prior to acquiring Audacy.
EOS Defense Systems USA plans to create a communications network using the spectrum license originally obtained by Audacy and to offer service from satellites in orbit by 2024 if it wins approvals from the Federal Communications Commission and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Audacy closed in 2019 after failing to raise enough money to pursue its plan to send three communications-relay satellites into medium Earth orbit.
Audacy closed in 2019 after failing to obtain additional financing for its plan to establish a three-satellite relay network.
The spectrum licenses granted to Audacy Corporation include a requirement to build and launch satellites that will achieve a capability in space by June 2024.
EOS Holdings Ltd. is opting to enter the regulated microwave communications domain by acquiring Audacy with the goal of deploying its microwave, optical, and hybrid microwave-optical technologies.
EOS Defense Systems USA plans to establish a space-based communications relay network using Audacy’s spectrum license.
EOS Defense Systems plans to pay approximately $10,000,000 Australian dollars (about $6.76 U.S. dollars) to acquire Audacy’s business, assets and license.
Audacy was founded in 2015 and obtained an FCC spectrum license in 2018.
Audacy obtained a Federal Communications Commission license to provide fixed and inter-satellite communications services from a constellation of medium Earth orbit satellites.
The technology demonstration satellite that Audacy failed to contact was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission in December 2018.
Customers signed memoranda of understanding to spend more than $100,000,000 annually on Audacy’s proposed network.
Audacy failed to attract the funding necessary to build an inter-satellite communications relay network and closed in 2019.
Ralph Ewig worked for Andrews Space, SpaceX and Aerojet Rocketdyne before founding Audacy in 2015 to build a commercial space data relay network.
Audacy plans to begin serving customers in 2019 with a network of ground stations as it builds its constellation.
Audacy plans to begin offering global communications services through a network of satellites weighing hundreds of kilograms in medium Earth orbit in 2021.