Astro Live Experiences (ALE) is launching a satellite intended to help create the first ever artificial meteor shower next year over Hiroshima, which will be visible over a 200 km radius. Spectacular view: Ultimately, ALE hopes to create an artificial meteor shower over Hiroshima next year, where it will be visible for up to six million people within a 124-mile (200-kilometer) radius. The Japanese company has been working on it for seven years, and has used the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Epsilon Rocket to help take it up to gather further required data. ALE, as it’s called, was launched in December 2016 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center with an aim of creating the world’s largest natural meteor shower. ALE believes it will be visible even in light-pollution heavy areas.
Astro Live Experiences (ALE) is launching a satellite intended to help create the first ever artificial meteor shower next year over Hiroshima, which will be visible over a 200 km radius. The Japanese company has been working on it for seven years, and has used the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Epsilon Rocket to help take it up to gather further required data. ALE, as it’s called, was launched in December 2016 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center with an aim of creating the world’s largest natural meteor shower. ALE believes it will be visible even in light-pollution heavy areas.