ALE - Meteor
Showers
on Demand
Demand
Meter
Showers On
Artificial shooting stars
• Controlled reentry for precise appearance of shooting stars
when and where you want them
•Burn brighter, burn longer, and travel slower across the sky
than natural shooting stars
•Particle release at 350km, below other satellites
•Complete ablation before 60km, well above the upper limits of
aircraft and weather balloons

The Sky is Your Canvas
Paint it with
Shooting Stars
http://star-ale.com/
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Bright enough to be seen within major
cities like Tokyo

 ALE - Meteor Showers on Demand
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We launch satellites with 300-400 of our 1cm diameter shooting star
particles.

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The particles are released at a rate of 1 particle every 10-15 seconds

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We have a 60 min window for release that ensures our shooting
stars appear in the sky above our target area.
Visibility area of 200km diameter.

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We can release 15-20 particles per satellite passing overhead for a
given event

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The particles take around 15-60 min after release to reenter the
atmosphere and travel around 1/3-2/3 of an orbit

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/artificialmeteor-showers-japan-satellite-space-science/

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The particles reenter the atmosphere at around 7.5km/s and burn up
just like natural shooting stars, but BETTER!

More info on http://star-ale.com/

 ALE - Meteor Showers on Demand
Founder, CEO
Lena founded ALE in September 2011 and serves as its
CEO. Prior to ALE, Lena worked in bond investment and
private equity at Goldman Sachs. She is also a serial
entrepreneur , having founded two companies in the
past in the mobile gaming and consulting industries.
During her time heading the mobile gaming company,
she was selected as a member of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) open lab. Lena received
her Ph.D. in Astronomy at the University of Tokyo.

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Two satellites in production slated for
launch in Q4 2018 and Q2 2019

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First event is the Hiroshima Shooting Star Challenge in
Summer of 2019

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Ongoing research into atmospheric reentry, material
ablation and “ignoro-sphere”
one of the hardest places to reach

More info on http://star-ale.com/

• Continuously growing constellation to
provide longer more spectacular shows
• Multiple launches per year