ALE CO. Ltd. is a Japan-based space technology company that wants to provide artificial shooting stars “any time, any place as you like.”
According to Lena Okajima, head of ALE in Tokyo, her group is working with experts in various Japanese universities to develop a spacecraft that can toss out tiny balls from Earth orbit to create on-demand shooting stars.
“A particle will be released from the platform of our artificial satellite that is circulating the globe in a circular orbit utilizing a mass driver to penetrate the atmosphere,” notes the ALE website.
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The released ball would plow through the Earth’s atmosphere at high-speed, blazing to brilliance and observable from the ground.
In fact, depending on your pre-disposed idea of how colorful you want your shooting stars, you can have ingredients introduced that alter the tint of the incoming object or objects.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lena-okajima/1a/915/243