A COMPANY is creating artificial shooting stars to wow the world’s mega-rich with dazzling light displays that are out of this world.
Calling itself a “space entertainment” company, Tokyo-based Astro Live Experiences (ALE) has spent the last seven years perfecting the satellite technology needed for the heavenly man-made shows.
Its website says: “Sky Canvas, the world’s first artificial shooting star project, aims to bring people all over the world together to witness an unprecedented, collective experience.
“Using space as our stage, we will constantly strive to bring to life new levels of entertainment.”
On Thursday, the Epsilon-4 rocket — a project that allows students and businesses to try out experiments in space — launched from the JAXA Uchinoura Space Center in Japan to test ALE’s small-scale version of the project.
To create the meteor show, a satellite is filled with up to 400 “particles.”
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These tiny pellets measure less than an inch across and are designed to fall super slow and glow extra bright.
Once the satellite reaches low Earth orbit, about 250 miles above the ground, the device will spit out the particles at around four miles per second.
The particles will partially travel around Earth and once they re-enter the atmosphere the capsules will heat up and dissolve – making for an eight-second-long stream that mimics a shooting star.
Expected costs per shower are expected to exceed several millions of pounds – making them only available for large events or for the world’s super-wealthy.
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Hiroki Kajihara of ALE told Wired: “Compared to natural ones, our meteors are more massive and travel through the atmosphere more slowly, which allows them to be observed for a longer time.”
The company ensures that the capsules will fully burn up between 37 and 50 miles from the ground – safely above the six-mile flight range of commercial planes.
Regardless of Thursday’s test results, the first official artificial meteor shower isn’t scheduled to take place until 2020.
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But if all goes well, artificial meteor showers could become as common as fireworks – with ALE selling its satellite services to theme parks, music festival and cities around the world.
Lena Okajima, the founder of ALE, told Wired: “I hope that our man-made meteors will help reveal new discoveries in science.
“And that they will gather and entertain people under the night sky.”
Parts of this article originally appeared on The New York Post
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