ORBIMAGE is Charter Partner for ESRI's Geography Network Website

Dulles, VA - June 26, 2000 - Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE), a leading global provider of Earth imagery products and services, today announced its participation as a charter partner for ESRI's newly introduced Geography Network Internet initiative.

The Geography Network, located at www.geographynetwork.com, is a global marketplace for geographic data and services. ORBIMAGE will offer its OrbView Cities high-resolution digital imagery through GeographyNetwork.com, enabling Geography Network users to immediately access OrbView Cities high-resolution digital imagery of major urban areas around the world, totaling over 125 cities by year-end.

ESRI's Geography Network provides the infrastructure needed to facilitate the exchange of geographic information between data providers, service providers and users around the world. The Internet is used to deliver geographic content to the user's browser and desktop. Content may be provided in the form of raw data, imagery (e.g. OrbView Cities) or maps.

Also, using this data, advanced services will be provided that include lifestyle mapping, population demographics, crime mapping, climate modeling, real-time weather reports, flood risk mapping, address geocoding and network routing.

OrbView Cities imagery is being hosted for the Geography Network at ORBIMAGE's headquarters in Dulles, Virginia. Using ESRI's innovative ArcIMS Internet server software, users are able to immediately access the OrbView Cities imagery archive through the GeographyNetwork.com gateway.

Imagery customers will have the option to either purchase imagery by the square mile and pay per transaction or subscribe to access the OrbView Cities archive remotely at anytime.

ESRI also plans to include a direct link from their GIS software packages, such as ArcView GIS and ArcInfo, to the Geographic Network data sources, allowing users to conveniently access OrbView Cities imagery during GIS work sessions.

According to Mark Pastrone, Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Development for ORBIMAGE, The Geography Network is a very important Internet distribution channel for our imagery products. We have dedicated significant hardware and software resources to this program because it matches our vision of providing immediate access to aerial and satellite imagery for the GIS marketplace.

About ESRI

For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 220,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. In addition to its headquarters in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than ninety countries, and more than 900 resellers and developers.

ESRI's goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. ESRI can be found on the Web at http://www.esri.com.

About ORBIMAGE

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 planned 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, RADARSAT-1 and Russia's SPIN-2 satellite. ORBIMAGE also offers the SeaStar Pro Fisheries Information Service, which provides fish finding maps derived from OrbView-2 Ocean imagery to fishing customers worldwide.