UrtheCast Corp. (TSX: UR) (“UrtheCast” or the “Company”) announced today that it has filed a management information circular (the “Circular”) for its annual and special shareholder meeting (the “Meeting”) scheduled for 10:30 a.m. (Vancouver time) on June 25, 2018 at the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver at 300-999 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC. The purpose of the Meeting is, among other things, to elect directors to the board of directors of UrtheCast (the “Board”). The Company also announced that Tye Burt resigned as Chair of the Board and a director of UrtheCast effective as of May 30, 2018 and will not be continuing until June 25, 2018, as announced on May 30, 2018. The Board has appointed Adam M. Vore as Interim Chair until the Meeting after which point the reconstituted Board will appoint a Chair.
Details on the matters to be considered at the Meeting are described in full in the Circular. An electronic copy of the Circular is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com under UrtheCast’s issuer profile and on the Company’s website at www.urthecast.com.
About UrtheCast
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 operates Earth Observation (EO) sensors in space, through its subsidiary Deimos Imaging, S.L.U., including two satellites, Deimos-1 and Deimos-2, to produce imagery data for partners and customers in multiple markets. UrtheCast processes and distributes imagery data and value-added products on behalf of the PanGeo Alliance, a network of seven satellite operators with a combined 13 medium- and high-resolution EO sensors. UrtheCast is developing a satellite constellation designed to capture high-quality, medium resolution optical imagery of the Earth’s entire landmass (excluding Antarctica) every day, called UrtheDaily™. UrtheCast is also developing the world’s first fully-integrated constellation of sixteen multispectral optical and SAR satellites, called OptiSAR™. Common shares of UrtheCast trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange as ticker “UR”.
For more information, visit UrtheCast’s website at www.urthecast.com.