Interest Costs

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Interest Costs	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 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 March 31,   2012    2011 Interest costs charged to expense $ 76,971    $ 78,218 Interest costs capitalized 7,954    7,250 Total interest costs incurred $ 84,925    $ 85,468 Included in interest costs incurred is non-cash interest expense, consisting of amortization related to original issue discounts, premiums and deferred financing fees of $10,647 and $9,573 for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.