Interest Costs

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Interest Costs	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 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 June 30,   For the Six Months Ended June 30,   2012   2011   2012    2011 Interest costs charged to expense $ 72,770   $ 76,196   $ 149,742    $ 154,414 Interest costs capitalized 8,128   8,068   16,082    15,318 Total interest costs incurred $ 80,898   $ 84,264   $ 165,824    $ 169,732 Included in interest costs incurred is non-cash interest expense, consisting of amortization related to original issue discounts, premiums and deferred financing fees of $10,384 and $9,661 for the three months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and $21,031 and $19,234 for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively.