Interest Costs

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Interest Costs	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2012
Interest Costs Disclosure [Abstract]
Interest Costs	Interest Costs We capitalized a portion of the interest on funds borrowed to finance the construction costs of our FM-6 satellite and related launch vehicle. We will continue to capitalize the interest until the launch of our FM-6 satellite. We also incur interest costs on all of our debt instruments and on our satellite incentive agreements. The following is a summary of our interest costs:   For the Three Months Ended September 30,   For the Nine Months Ended September 30,   2012   2011   2012    2011 Interest costs charged to expense $ 70,035   $ 75,316   $ 219,777    $ 229,730 Interest costs capitalized 8,005   8,906   24,087    24,224 Total interest costs incurred $ 78,040   $ 84,222   $ 243,864    $ 253,954 Included in interest costs incurred is non-cash interest expense, consisting of amortization related to original issue discounts, premiums and deferred financing fees of $9,755 and $9,977 for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and $30,786 and $29,211 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.