UrtheCast's US$65M Contract Amended so that Entire Amount now for Engineering Services

VANCOUVER, April 28, 2016 — (PRNewswire) — UrtheCast Corp. (TSX: UR) ("UrtheCast" or the "Company") today announces that it has reached an agreement with its customer on the previously announced US$65 million contract to re-allocate all of the funds previously earmarked for future data purchases, to engineering services. With the amendment, the entire US$65 million contract is now for engineering services.  This amendment will increase the monthly revenues of the Company beginning in mid-2016 to early-2018.

"This amendment confirms both our previously announced guidance and the main aspects of UrtheCast's story today," explains UrtheCast President and Chief Executive Officer, Wade Larson. "We have a solid, rapidly growing, and profitable core business in Earth Observation and Engineering Services, with a strong cash position. Also, as this contract is with an OptiSAR Constellation MOU partner, we feel that it signifies strong customer validation for the future of the technology that we are developing and, we strongly believe, the global commercial potential of the Constellation itself."

ABOUT URTHECAST CORP.

UrtheCast Corp. is a Vancouver-based technology company 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. UrtheCast is also developing and anticipates launching the world's first fully-integrated constellation of multispectral optical and SAR satellites, called UrtheDaily™ and OptiSAR™, which the Company believes will revolutionize monitoring of our planet with high-quality, medium and high-resolution, and high-coverage and high-revisit imagery in all weather conditions, any time of day. 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 financial guidance and its plans for the OptiSAR Constellation. 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 the design, development, construction, launch and operational commissioning of the proposed OptiSAR™ Constellation; the Company being unable to convert the Memoranda of Understanding in respect of funding of the OptiSAR™ Constellation into binding, definitive agreements; interruptions to or failures of UrtheCast's infrastructure; legal and regulatory changes, 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.

SOURCE UrtheCast Corp.

Contact:
UrtheCast Corp.
Jeff Rath, EVP, Corporate Finance and Strategy
Phone: +1 (604) 669-1788
Web: www.urthecast.com




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