Plan to artificially make shooting stars 3 years postponed due to satellite failure 22:29 on April 20
A venture company in Tokyo, which was planning an event to artificially create a shooting star using a microsatellite, announced that it would postpone the event it planned to do three years later due to a malfunction of the satellite device. .
Venture company "ALE" in Minato-ku, Tokyo plans to hold an event in which a metal ball is ejected from a micro satellite to enter the atmosphere and artificially make a shooting star fall.
The company was launching a satellite from New Zealand in December last year with a rocket, and planned to hold the first event during this year, but after the launch there was a problem with the device that ejects a metal ball, It means that I gave up on using the event.
The company is currently developing the next satellite and wants to launch it again next year, three years later, to run its first event in 2023.