{"id":3608,"date":"2016-05-21T15:19:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishwark6.sg-host.com\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2016-05-21T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T09:49:30","slug":"startup-star-ale-create-meteor-shower-olympics-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=3608","title":{"rendered":"Startup Star-ALE to create meteor shower for Olympics 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tokyo-based Startup, Star-ALE creates the unimaginable man-made meteor shower.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Star-ALE is a Tokyo-based startup that is currently designing an artificial meteor shower for the 2020 Olympics. A microsatellite armed with 1-5k combustible pellets that will be ignited above 56-80 km of Earth, it would be visible from an area of over 190 kms. The combustible pellets are made from different metals and elements so that they bring out a variety of colors, when burned. Potassium, for instance, burns purple, cesium burns blue and copper lets off a green glow. Moreover, the gases are designed to simulate the friction between the pellets that would be subjected to as they fell to Earth from space.<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHvyz3h-rRo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The meteor shower will act as a replacement of fireworks. With this, the Olympics opening ceremony in Japan will be outstanding. Star-Ale aims to recreate the natural process of star shooting. Currently, the startup is testing the pellets in a vacuum chamber that exposes them to supersonic hot gases. If everything is in place, the show could been seen all over Tokyo and have a huge audience of 30,000,000 people. The area occupied by the meteor shower will be 400 times wider than the fireworks bursting at an altitude of 500 metres.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the cost of manufacturing each pellet is over $8,000. The company is aiming to launch its first satellite in the latter half of 2017 and commercialise the project in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A microsatellite armed with 1-5k combustible pellets that will be ignited above 56-80 km of Earth, it would be visible from an area of over 190 kms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The combustible pellets are made from different metals and elements so that they bring out a variety of colors, when burned.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo-based Startup, Star-ALE creates the unimaginable man-made meteor shower.\u00a0 Star-ALE is a Tokyo-based startup that is currently designing an artificial meteor shower for the 2020 Olympics. A microsatellite armed with 1-5k combustible pellets that will be ignited above 56-80 km of Earth, it would be visible from an area of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[856,855,70],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-start-up","category-technology","tag-meteor-shower","tag-star-ale","tag-startup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/metior.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}