AEROSPACE

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- SGI (NYSE: SGI ), a leading provider of high-performance computing, complex data management and visualization solutions, and Space Imaging, the world's leader in providing Earth imagery and related services to commercial and government markets, announced today that the two companies have signed a teaming agreement. The purpose of this one-year, renewable agreement is to facilitate cooperation between SGI and Space Imaging to expand revenues in the growing geospatial marketplace. As part of the agreement, SGI and Space Imaging have agreed to establish Space Imaging as an Authorized Value-Added Reseller of SGI(TM) hardware and services; establish SGI as an Authorized Reseller of Space Imaging imagery data; establish a collaborative marketing arrangement between the two companies; and establish a Joint Strategic Opportunity Committee. ``This partnership with SGI demonstrates our commitment to working with premier technology providers who offer leading-edge solutions to the geospatial community,'' said John Copple, chairman and CEO, Space Imaging. ``SGI is the only provider of high-performance computing systems powerful enough to provide mission-critical groundstation image processing to the commercial, high-resolution satellite imaging market. In addition, SGI systems provide the bandwidth, throughput and processing power to combine our high-resolution imagery from IKONOS with other geospatial data to produce 3D data sets of the world that can be navigated in real time. This combination of SGI hardware and Space Imaging data is ideal for the visual simulation industry.'' ``The SGI and Space Imaging team will provide best-in-class solutions to help commercial and government customers in the geospatial market solve some of the world's biggest data problems,'' said Anthony Robbins, senior vice president, SGI. ``Space Imaging just celebrated the second anniversary of its IKONOS satellite, which was the first satellite to produce commercial, one- meter high-resolution satellite imagery of the Earth. What makes IKONOS unique is that it is the only satellite that enables its worldwide groundstation customers to directly task the satellite, receive the imagery in real time and process and store the imagery locally.'' Space Imaging's groundstations are powered by SGI servers that process the large files of imagery data transmitted to Earth by the IKONOS satellite. The availability of commercial one-meter high-resolution Earth imagery has opened new geospatial markets valued in the billions of dollars for such applications as urban planning, environmental monitoring, mapping, natural disaster assessment, telecommunications network planning, oil and gas exploration and agricultural monitoring. A Joint Strategic Opportunity Committee, which will meet on a quarterly basis, will determine mutual revenue goals in the geospatial marketplace and create business opportunities where SGI and Space Imaging can develop new solutions and generate incremental revenue. The committee will also help Space Imaging develop enhanced solution offerings that would allow it to capture nontraditional revenue around its Regional Operations Centers. For more information visit www.sgi.com or www.spaceimaging.com