Kinesix Expands Support of Aerospace Corporation’s

Spacelift Telemetry Program

- Engagement is latest in a long list of aerospace deployments -

HOUSTON – (October 9, 2006) – Kinesix Software has sold several new licenses for its Sammi® graphical-interface software to the Aerospace Corporation – which is already using the software as an integral component of its STARS program.

 STARS – which is short for Spacelift Telemetry Acquisition and Reporting System – remotely analyzes rocket-launch data in real-time. Before STARS, such data analysis was delayed for days or weeks. Kinesix’s Sammi software is a crucial component of the STARS system, which has been used to monitor every national-security launch since 1998.

More specifically, Sammi serves as the user interface that allows Aerospace Corporation’s mission-control workers to visualize streaming telemetry data through complex graphical displays, instead of relying on the simple numeric readings or rudimentary visuals traditionally used for data analysis.  

Sammi also ensures that these complex graphics can be shared across dozens of synchronized workstations in near real-time. It does this through its unique Runtime Environment, a data management tool that coordinates high volumes of commands, events and data between networked users and back-end data sources. As a result, a range of workers can all look at the same complex data at the same time – using the same exact displays. 

“STARS is one of the most dramatic examples you could find of Sammi in action,” says Kinesix CEO Russ Jamerson. “Not only does the software present users with high-volumes of streaming data from multiple sources, but it does so in a time effective manner using graphics that are second to none.” 

Aerospace Corporation first started using Sammi as an integral elemement of its STARS system in 1995. It is purchasing the new licenses as part of the program’s ongoing growth. 

Engagement complements numerous other

 aerospace deployments

The STARS engagement is just one of a long list of aerospace implementations for Kinesix. These include major deployments with NASA at the Johnson Space Center and at NASA’s main training facility for flight controllers and astronauts. The software has also been used at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center and Goddard Space Flight Center.

 In addition, the Canadian Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Mission Control – as well as nine of the world’s 10 largest aerospace companies – have used Sammi. Plus, two major European aerospace companies – Astrium/EADS of Germany and Alenia Espazio of Italy – are in the midst of new Kinesix deployment as part of their work on the International Space Station.  

About Kinesix Software

Kinesix Software is the developer of Sammi, an enterprise and control-room graphics tool used by more than 20,000 mission-command and process-control workers. The Sammi product, which was first launched in 1990, allows users to build custom graphical displays that animate and manage massive volumes of streaming data across dozens – or even hundreds – of workstations.  

With Sammi, users see full-color dashboards, instead of rudimentary numeric readings or basic, conventional GUIs. While Sammi is often categorized as a graphics product, its real value lies in its proven ability to display live data across a network of command and control systems. Kinesix offers Sammi for a variety of platforms, including Unix, Microsoft NT/2000/XP and Linux. In addition, Kinesix recently released KX EDGE, its next-generation human-machine interface, based on Microsoft’s .Net platform. Kinesix is based in Houston, Texas. To learn more visit www.kinesix.com.