Failure Analysis Takes Mapping Underground

Failure Analysis has submitted a proposal to the CIA/Air Force/National Reconnaissance Office to provide a civil and military satellite-based, underground 3-D mapping system called DUMSTR. DUMSTR stands for “defense underground mapping satellite tracking and ranging”. DUMSTR can provide locations and size of small and large underground facilities as well as large geological plate tectonic movement. DUMSTR is derived from the CIA/U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Mapping Program (DMSP) and the Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) and doesn’t require development of new technology.

DUMSTR consists of a matrix of 100, 3-axis controlled satellites to provide 2-D and 3-D underground topology to a depth of over 5,000 ft. Failure Analysis is experienced with satellite constellations such as GLOBALSTAR, GPS, INTELSAT and DMSP. “As international military and civil facilities are being located deeper and deeper underground to improve their survivability, the U.S. military wanted a system to identify them”, said Dr. Len Losik, President of Failure Analysis. DUMSTR was developed from telemetry prognostic signal intelligence technology developed and used on Air Force GPS 28 satellite constellation of satellites. Telemetry prognostics stops satellite infant mortality failures in the first year of in-orbit satellite operations and launch failures. More info here…