It's unclear whether the meteor shower will be visible in Canada but media reports suggest it could occur sometime within the next couple of years.
"Our aim is to contribute to the sustainable development of humankind and to bring space closer to all of us, by expanding the area of human activity beyond Earth to discover, collect and apply essential data from space," Lena Okajima, founder and CEO of ALE,"As a first step, I founded ALE to create the world's first human-made shooting star, to inspire wonder and to spark scientific curiosity.
The company plans to launch meteor-replicating particles from its satellite and then study their path and light emissions. Meteorites create light from the extreme aerodynamic heating of small dust particles as they travel through the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, ALE says, creating the phenomenon known as shooting stars., one of the four primary layers of the Earth's atmosphere just above the stratosphere, in part because it is too high for balloons to reach.