Sat-Based Underground Mapping Is A Go For Failure Analysis

Failure Analysis has been contacted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to start work on the Defense Underground Mapping Satellite Tracking and Ranging (DUMSTR) system that the Company proposed to the National Reconnaissance Office, Washington, DC. Failure Analysis submitted a $100,000,000.00/year proposal to the NRO in February, 2008 to develop a low-earth-orbiting, satellite-based, underground mapping matrix using existing Air Force satellite technology from the Defense Mapping Satellite Program (DMSP) and the Global Positioning System (GPS). DUMSTR uses a 10×10 satellite matrix consisting of over 100 satellites with in-orbit spares in a DMSP sun-synchronous orbit and GPS position location technology to yield the location of underground civil and military facilities around the world.

“This is the first satellite-based underground mapping system that will get the DOD where they need to be” said Dr. Len Losik, founder of Failure Analysis and designer of the DUMSTR matrix, payload and ground system. In addition to civil and military underground facilities location, DUMSTR will provide geological science information for plate tectonics, underground volcano structure and growth of lava chambers promising to increase the likelihood of future earthquake prediction capability—Salinas, California