UrtheCast Issues RFP to Prospective Industry Partners to Serve the U.S. Government with OptiSAR™ and UrtheDaily™

UrtheCast Corp. is a Vancouver-based technology company with operations in the U.S. and Spain that serves the rapidly evolving geospatial and geoanalytics markets with a wide range of information-rich products and services. The Company currently operates four Earth Observation sensors in space, including two cameras aboard the International Space Station and two satellites, Deimos-1 and Deimos-2. Imagery and video data captured by these sensors is downlinked to ground stations across the planet and displayed on UrtheCast's cloud-based web platform, or distributed directly to partners and customers.

In June 2015, UrtheCast announced its plans to build, launch and operate the world's first fully-integrated, multi-spectral optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) commercial constellation of Earth Observation satellites, which is now known as OptiSAR™. The OptiSAR™ Constellation is expected to comprise 16 satellites (8 optical and 8 SAR) flying in two orbital planes, with each plane consisting of four satellite pairs, equally-spaced around the orbital plane.  Each pair of satellites will consist of a dual-mode, high-resolution optical satellite (video and pushbroom) and a dual-band high-resolution SAR satellite (X-band and L-band), flying in tandem. By employing two orbital planes, the OptiSAR™ Constellation will provide for maximum revisit rates in the mid-latitudes, while providing global coverage extending to the poles. OptiSAR™ will be deployed over multiple launches and is expected to begin operations in 2021. 

In March 2016, UrtheCast announced its UrtheDaily™ Constellation concept, consisting of eight additional electro-optical satellites equiphased in a sun synchronous orbit and designed to provide coverage of the Earth's entire landmasses (excluding Antarctica) in six-band multi-spectral imagery every single day.  UrtheCast believes that, if realized, the 24 satellites of UrtheDaily™ and OptiSAR™ will represent an unprecedented capability for daily global collection, monitoring, change detection, and tipping-and-cueing. Common shares of UrtheCast trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange as ticker 'UR'.

For more information, visit UrtheCast's website at www.urthecast.com.

Forward Looking Information
This release contains certain information which, as presented, constitutes "forward-looking information" or "forward-oriented financial information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking information involves statements that relate to future events and often addresses expected future business and financial performance, containing words such as "anticipate", "believe", "plan", and "expect", statements that an action or event "may", "might", "could" or "will" be taken or occur, or other similar expressions and includes, but is not limited to: its plans for and timing of expansion of its product offering and value-added services; its future growth and operations plans; the success of a strategic partnership between UrtheCast and a U.S. partner to serve U.S. Government customers; the acceptance by its customers and the marketplace of new satellite imaging content, technologies and solutions; and the design, build, completion and operation of the proposed OptiSAR and UrtheDaily constellations. Such statements reflect UrtheCast's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by UrtheCast, are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors could cause UrtheCast's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others, any delays or failures in its ability to finance, design, develop, construct, launch and commission the proposed OptiSAR or UrtheDaily constellations, as well as those factors and assumptions discussed in UrtheCast's annual information form dated March 29, 2016, (the "AIF"), which is available under UrtheCast's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com. Forward-looking information is developed based on assumptions about such risks, uncertainties and other factors set out herein, in the AIF, and as disclosed from time to time on UrtheCast's SEDAR profile. UrtheCast undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by Canadian securities laws. Readers are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.

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