Press Release

Johnson Space Center Chooses Excalibur To Manage Space Missions Video Content

By SpaceRef Editor
June 13, 2000
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Excalibur Media Services Group, a division of Excalibur
Technologies Corporation and a leading provider of
video content management enabling technologies, today announced that
the Johnson Space Center has selected Excalibur Screening Room® to
manage video content originating with Space Shuttle and International
Space Station missions.

Under the agreement, Excalibur Screening Room will be used to
ingest, archive and manage Space Shuttle and International Space
Station video content to provide real-time and post mission analysis
and re-purposing of the video over the NASA intranet. Excalibur
software will be deployed at Johnson Space Center where it will
receive television downlink initiated from the Space Shuttle
and the International Space Station as part of the advanced technology
that provides essential mission support for the U.S. space effort.

About Excalibur

Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies is the world’s leading
developer of advanced, search-powered, multimedia solutions for
intelligently accessing and utilizing content via interconnected
computer networks. The Excalibur Media Services Group provides leading
video content management enabling technologies for the Internet and
corporate intranets. The Excalibur Applications Group provides a suite
of intelligent search solutions for Intranet portals and Internet
eCommerce applications. The Excalibur product family includes
RetrievalWare® for text-centric searching, WebExpress for online
applications, Excalibur Spider for multimedia web crawling, CDExpress
for CD information publishing, Screening Room® for video content
management and the Visual RetrievalWare Toolkit for developing
image-based search applications. Excalibur Technologies is
headquartered in Vienna, VA with offices, distributors and
subsidiaries located throughout the world.

Contact Excalibur in North America at 800-788-7758 or
703-761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, via e-mail at
info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com.

The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered
trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corporation: Excalibur
Technologies Corp®, Excalibur Screening Room®, RetrievalWare®,
EFS®, and APRP®. Excalibur Internet Spider(TM), The Excalibur
Edge(TM) partners program, and their respective logos are trademarks
of Excalibur Technologies Corporation.

Contact: Excalibur Media Services Group, Robbin Hunt, 760/438-7900
rhunt@excalib.com

SpaceRef staff editor.