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Lena Okajima (岡島 礼奈, Okajima Lena) is the founder and chief executive officer of ALE Co., Ltd.
Lena Okajima | |
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| Born | February 19, 1979 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Education | University of Tokyo, Ph.D. in Science |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and CEO of ALE Co,. Ltd |
Career
editLena founded the Japanese space entertainment company, ALE Co., Ltd in 2011. Prior to ALE, she worked in bond investment and private equity at Goldman Sachs Japan.[1]
She is also an entrepreneur who has founded an online gaming company and a business consulting company. She received her Ph.D. in Science from the University of Tokyo in 2008.
ALE Co., Ltd.
editALE stands for Astro Live Experiences.
- 2001: Lena came up with an idea to create artificial shooting star while watching the Leonid meteor shower during her time as an undergraduate student at the University of Tokyo
- 2009: Started working on the artificial shooting star project
- 2011: Lena founded ALE Co., Ltd.
- 2015: Started full-scale commercialization of artificial shooting star technology
- 2019: Launch of first satellite ALE-1 on 18 January 2019 by an Epsilon rocket and launch of second satellite ALE-2 on 6 December 2019 by an Electron rocket.
- 2023: Premiering in Hiroshima[citation needed]
In 2020 it was published that the first artificial meteor shower would be delayed from 2020 to 2023 (to be conducted by the next satellite ALE-3) due to the malfunction of ALE-2 satellite; apparently also ALE-1 had malfunctioned[original research?] (due to not being able to produce an artificial meteor shower).[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Marc Prosser. "Meet The Japanese Entrepreneur-Scientist Planning to Bombard Earth With Artificial Meteors" (May 22, 2016).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Japanese satellite filled with 'shooting star' pellets won't spawn artificial meteor shower after all". Space.com. 15 May 2020.
- ^ "人工衛星2号機の動作不良に伴う、人工流れ星の実現延期（2020年→2023年初期）のお知らせ" [The achievement of an artificial meteor shower has been postponed (2020 → early 2023) due to the malfunction of Satellite No. 2]. Astro Live Experiences (in Japanese). 20 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2020.