On-Demand Shooting Stars, Coming Right Up
A would-be shooting star is ignited in a test in an arc-heated wind tunnel at the ISAS (the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ) in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.
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To catch a falling star, luck might not be a factor any more.
Lena Okajima, an entrepreneur in Japan, wants to get into the business of delivering tiny artificial meteors sent up in rockets, released from a satellite on command and bright enough to illuminate the night over light-flooded cities.