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ORBIMAGE AWARDED NEW CONTRACT BY U.S. NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY

Maximum Contract Award for Company's High-Resolution Earth Imagery Valued at $100 Million Over Three Years

(Dulles, VA 31 January 2001) -- Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), a leading global provider of Earth imagery products and services, today announced that it signed the NIMA Production Prototype (NPP) contract with the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Under the NPP, which is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ)-type contract, NIMA may order products and services for one base year and two optional years. The maximum value of the contract to ORBIMAGE is $100 million over the three-year period.

The primary objective of the NPP program is to develop, prototype and demonstrate new or improved geospatial and intelligence products and data sets derived from commercial satellite and/or U.S. Government imagery sources. Under the contract, ORBIMAGE has proposed the development of various multispectral and hyperspectral products from its satellite and aerial imagery sources to demonstrate the value of these products for national security customers and to expand the availability and applicability of basic "foundation" data for urban applications.

According to Paul Weise, Director of NIMA's Commercial Partnerships Branch, "We looked to a variety of commercial and government data providers and selected ORBIMAGE after a competitive process. We are pleased to award one of the NPP contracts to ORBIMAGE because of their ability to provide high quality commercial imagery, their innovative perspectives as a commercial company, and their strong history of providing geospatial information products to NIMA."

Mr. Gilbert D. Rye, President and Chief Executive Officer of ORBIMAGE, said, "This contract award reflects a growing recognition on the part of NIMA of the unique attributes of commercial imagery. It will allow ORBIMAGE to work with NIMA to integrate commercial imagery in existing products and explore possible additional product enhancements. In addition, this contract strengthens and broadens ORBIMAGE's relationship with NIMA, an anchor customer for our imagery products."

ORBIMAGE is a leading global provider of Earth imagery products and services, with a planned constellation of five digital remote sensing satellites. The company currently operates the OrbView-1 atmospheric imaging satellite (launched in 1995), the OrbView-2 ocean and land multispectral imaging satellite (launched in 1997), and a worldwide integrated image receiving, processing and distribution network. Currently under development, ORBIMAGE's OrbView-3 and OrbView-4 high-resolution satellites will offer one-meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral digital imagery. OrbView-4 will also offer the world's first commercial hyperspectral satellite imagery. ORBIMAGE is also the exclusive, worldwide distributor of imagery from the Canadian RADARSAT-2 satellite.

ORBIMAGE currently offers one-meter high-resolution panchromatic imagery of major U.S. and non-U.S. urban areas through its OrbView Cities catalog, available at http://www.orbimage.com . In addition, ORBIMAGE distributes imagery from SPOT Image, Canada's RADARSAT-1 satellite and Russia's SPIN-2 satellite. ORBIMAGE also offers the SeaStar Pro Fisheries Information Service, which provides fish finding maps derived from OrbView-2 satellite imagery of the world's oceans to fishing customers worldwide.

Contact: Barron Beneski, 7034065000, beneski.barron@orbital.com