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Customer Loan Agreement Relating to Launch #1 - CD Radio Inc. and Arianespace Finance SA

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                       ARIANESPACE CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT


                            Dated as of July 22, 1997


                                     between


                                  CD RADIO INC.


                                       and


                            ARIANESPACE FINANCE S.A.



                             Relating to Launch # 1




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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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SECTION 1.     DEFINITIONS......................................................   1
     1.01      Defined Terms....................................................   1
     1.02      Other Definitional Provisions..................................... 44

SECTION 2.  LOAN PROVISIONS...................................................... 45
     2.01      Amounts and Terms of Commitments.................................. 45
     2.02      Manner of Borrowing Tranche A Loans............................... 46
     2.03      Procedure for Conversion to a Tranche B Loan...................... 47
     2.04      Deconversion and Reconversion..................................... 48
     2.05      Prepayments....................................................... 49
     2.06      Repayment......................................................... 52
     2.07      Interest.......................................................... 53
     2.08      Fees.............................................................. 54
     2.09      Computation of Interest and Fees.................................. 54
     2.10      Payments by the Customer.......................................... 54
     2.11      Security.......................................................... 55
     2.12      Note.............................................................. 56
     2.13      ECA Enhancement................................................... 56
     2.14      ECA Additional Terms and Conditions............................... 57

SECTION 3.  TAXES AND YIELD PROTECTION........................................... 57
     3.01      Taxes............................................................. 57
     3.02      Increased Costs and Reduction of Return........................... 61
     3.03      Funding Losses.................................................... 64
     3.04      Inability to Determine Rates...................................... 64

SECTION 4.  CONDITIONS PRECEDENT................................................  65
     4.01      Conditions to Initial Tranche A Loan.............................. 65
     4.02      Conversion Conditions............................................. 68
     4.03      Tranche B Conditions Precedent.................................... 70
     4.04      Conditions to All Loans........................................... 76

SECTION 5.  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES....................................... 76
     5.01      Existence and Power............................................... 76
     5.02      Authorizations; No Contravention.................................. 77
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     5.03      Government Approvals.............................................. 77
     5.04      Binding Effect.................................................... 79
     5.05      Litigation........................................................ 79
     5.06      No Default........................................................ 80
     5.07      Use of Proceeds................................................... 80
     5.08      Title to Assets................................................... 80
     5.09      Taxes............................................................. 80
     5.10      Financial Condition............................................... 80
     5.11      Environmental Matters............................................. 81
     5.12      Subsidiaries...................................................... 82
     5.13      Insurance......................................................... 82
     5.14      Project Compliance................................................ 82
     5.15      Collateral........................................................ 82
     5.16      Collateral Documents.............................................. 83
     5.17      Sufficiency of Loan Documents and Satellite Contracts............. 83
     5.18      Disclosure........................................................ 84
     5.19      Effectiveness of Loan Documents, Satellite Contracts and
               Qualified Lease Agreements........................................ 84
     5.20      Employee Benefit Liabilities...................................... 84
     5.21      Investment Company Act............................................ 84

SECTION 6.  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS................................................ 85
     6.01      Financial Statements.............................................. 85
     6.02      Certificates; Other Information................................... 86
     6.03      Notices........................................................... 87
     6.04      Preservation of Existence, Etc.................................... 88
     6.05      Maintenance of Assets............................................. 89
     6.06      Maintenance of Insurance.......................................... 89
     6.07      Payment of Obligations............................................ 95
     6.08      Compliance with Laws.............................................. 96
     6.09      Inspection of Property and Books and Records...................... 96
     6.10      Environmental Laws................................................ 96
     6.11      Use of Proceeds................................................... 97
     6.12      Project Maintenance............................................... 97
     6.13      Telecommunications Approvals...................................... 97
     6.14      Government Approvals.............................................. 98
     6.15      Rate Contracts.................................................... 98
     6.16      Operational Control and Re Export................................. 98
     6.17      Performance of Loan Documents..................................... 99
     6.18      Performance of Satellite Contracts............................... 100
     6.19      Performance of Qualified Lease Agreements........................ 100
     6.20      Orbital Position.  .............................................. 100
     6.21      Export License................................................... 100
     6.22      In-Orbit Commissioning........................................... 100
     6.23      Satellite Operational Reports.................................... 101
     6.24      Transponder Lease Agreements..................................... 101
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     6.25      Further Assurances............................................... 101
     6.26      Priorities....................................................... 102

SECTION 7.  NEGATIVE COVENANTS.................................................. 103
     7.01      Limitation on Liens.............................................. 103
     7.02      Disposition of Collateral........................................ 104
     7.03      Disposition of Assets Other Than Collateral...................... 104
     7.04      Transactions with Affiliates..................................... 105
     7.05      Notice of Indebtedness........................................... 105
     7.06      Lease Obligations................................................ 105
     7.07      Capital Expenditures............................................. 106
     7.08      Change in Structure; Consolidations and Mergers.................. 106
     7.09      Accounting Changes............................................... 107
     7.10      Business......................................................... 107
     7.11      Military Activities.............................................. 108
     7.12      Loan Documents................................................... 108
     7.13      Satellite Contracts; Qualified Lease Agreements.................. 108
     7.14      Loans, Deposits and Investments.................................. 110
     7.15      Subordinated Indebtedness........................................ 110

SECTION 8.  EVENTS OF DEFAULT................................................... 111
     8.01      Events of Default................................................ 111
     8.02      Remedies......................................................... 118
     8.03      Rights Not Exclusive............................................. 119

SECTION 9.  ADDITIONAL LOAN PROVISIONS.......................................... 119
     9.01      Category 3 Preview............................................... 119
     9.02      Conversion Process  ............................................. 123
     9.03      Additional Collateral............................................ 129
     9.04      Security Interest in Collateral.................................. 129

SECTION 10.  MISCELLANEOUS...................................................... 133
    10.01      Amendments and Waivers........................................... 133
    10.02      Notices.......................................................... 133
    10.03      No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies................................... 134
    10.04      Costs and Expenses; Indemnification.............................. 134
    10.05      Successors and Assigns........................................... 136
    10.06      Assignment....................................................... 136
    10.07      Currency Indemnity............................................... 137
    10.08      Set-off.......................................................... 138
    10.09      Counterparts..................................................... 139
    10.10      Severability..................................................... 139
    10.11      GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION................................... 139
    10.12      WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL............................................. 141
    10.13      Entire Agreement................................................. 141
    10.14      Confidentiality.................................................. 141
    10.15      Headings......................................................... 142
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    10.16      No Third Party Beneficiaries..................................... 142
    10.17      Survival......................................................... 142
    10.18      Language......................................................... 142
    10.19      Determinations by AEF............................................ 142
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ANNEXES

ANNEX 1   CATEGORY 1 CUSTOMER
ANNEX 2   CATEGORY 2 CUSTOMER
ANNEX 3   CATEGORY 3 CUSTOMER
ANNEX 4   LIST OF COUNTRIES
ANNEX 5   ACCEPTABLE CURRENCIES
ANNEX 6   LIST OF PERMITTED LOCATIONS


SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5.03            GOVERNMENT APPROVALS
SCHEDULE 5.05            LITIGATION
SCHEDULE 5.10            BASE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
SCHEDULE 5.11            ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS
SCHEDULE 5.12A           SUBSIDIARIES
SCHEDULE 5.12B           EQUITY INVESTMENTS
SCHEDULE 10.02           ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES

EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT A                FORM OF NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN
EXHIBIT B                FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
EXHIBIT C                FORM OF NOTE




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This CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT is entered into as of July 22, 1997, between CD
RADIO INC., a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware (the "CUSTOMER")
and ARIANESPACE FINANCE S.A., a company organized under the laws of Luxembourg
("AEF").

WHEREAS, AEF has agreed to make available to the Customer certain loans upon the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Lenders are providing loans to AEF for the purpose of funding the
loans contemplated by this Agreement;

WHEREAS, AE and CD Radio Inc., as the LSA Party have entered into the Launch
Services Agreement for the launch of the Satellite; and

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of the Launch Services Agreement and the
Multiparty Agreement related thereto constitute the basis upon which AEF has
agreed to make the loans contemplated by this Agreement; and

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements, provisions and
covenants contained herein, the parties agree as follows:


                             SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS

1.011  DEFINED TERMS. Unless expressly defined otherwise herein, capitalized
       terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.01:

       "ACCEPTABLE CURRENCY" means a freely transferable currency of a country
       listed on ANNEX 5 hereto, the Euro or the ECU, provided that the ECU
       shall cease to be an Acceptable Currency upon the adoption and
       implementation of the Euro and any obligation denominated in the ECU
       shall provide that it is convertible into the Euro upon such
       implementation.

       "ACCOUNT BANK" means Credit Lyonnais as account bank in such capacity,
       together with its successors in such capacity, as designated by AEF.

       "AE" means Arianespace S.A., a company organized under the laws of
       France.

       "AE ACCOUNT" means account number 036122-43, established by AE with the
       Account Bank at its office in Luxembourg as such account may be
       renumbered or any successor account identified by AEF to the Customer
       from time to time.

       "AEF" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Agreement.

       "AFFILIATE" means, as to any Person, any other Person, directly or
       indirectly, controlling, controlled by, or under common control with,
       such first-named Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another
       Person if the controlling Person


                                   
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       possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the
       direction of the management and policies of the other Person, whether
       through the ownership of voting stock, by contract or otherwise. Without
       limitation, any Person that owns directly or indirectly twenty percent
       (20%) or more of the voting stock or other equity interests of a Person
       shall, for the purposes of this Agreement and any other Loan Document, be
       deemed to control the other Person.

       "AGREEMENT" means this Customer Loan Agreement.

       "APPLICABLE MARGIN" means (a) during the Tranche A Term, the percentage
       amount as set forth in the Fee Letter and (b) during the Tranche B Term,
       the Customer Tranche B Margin set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, as applicable
       to the Customer on and after the Conversion Date in relation to the
       designation by AEF of the Customer into a Customer Category pursuant to
       Section 9, provided that, if the Customer Tranche B Margin shall be as
       set forth in ANNEX 1 as a result of ECA Enhancement being procured with
       respect to the Customer, pursuant to Section 2.13, and such ECA
       Enhancement shall at any time during the Tranche B Term cease to be in
       full force and effect, the Customer Tranche B Margin shall, from and
       after such date, be the Customer Tranche B Margin set forth in ANNEX 1, 2
       OR 3, as would otherwise be applicable in the absence of such ECA
       Enhancement.

       "APPRAISAL" means a report, dated no earlier than fifteen (15) days prior
       to the date of its delivery to AEF, prepared by the Appraiser, in form
       and substance satisfactory to AEF, as to the matters set forth in Section
       4.02(a).

       "APPRAISER" means an independent appraiser selected by AEF and reasonably
       acceptable to the Customer.

       "ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE" has the meaning specified in Section
       10.06(a).

       "ASSIGNMENT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT" means the assignment and security
       agreement to be entered into between the Customer, any Affiliate thereof
       contemplated by clause (g) of the definition of "Collateral" and the
       Security Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to AEF, whereby the
       Customer and such Affiliate (if any) grants to the Security Agent a Lien
       on the Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof.

       "ASSUMED DISTRESS VALUE" means an amount expressed in Dollars, as
       determined by the Appraiser in the Appraisal, representing the assumed
       proceeds of a sale realizable from an orderly remarketing of the
       Satellite and (if and to the extent included or to be included in the
       Collateral) the TTC&M Facilities, under normal market conditions
       prevailing at the date of appraisal, following an assumed Event of
       Default on the In-Orbit Commissioning Date.

       "AVERAGE LIFE" means, with respect to the Tranche B Loan, an amount,
       expressed in years, equal to: (a) the sum of the products of each Tranche
       B Required Installment Amount multiplied by the number of years
       (calculated to one (1) decimal place) from the Conversion Date to the
       Tranche B Principal Payment Date on which such Tranche


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       B Required Installment Amount is due, DIVIDED BY (b) the aggregate amount
       of the Tranche B Loan outstanding as of the Conversion Date.

       "BASE CASE" means, as the context may require, any Preliminary Base Case,
       the Conversion Base Case or each subsequent base case updated in
       accordance with the annual updated Business Plan to be provided pursuant
       to Section 6.02(c) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer.

       "BASE DATE" means (a) prior to the Conversion Date, the date of the
       latest Base Financial Statements and (b) on and after the Conversion
       Date, the date of the latest Conversion Financial Statements.

       "BASE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" has the meaning specified in Section 5.10(a).

       "BASLE ACCORD" means the proposals for a risk-based capital framework
       described by the Basle Committee on Banking Regulations and Supervisory
       Practices in its paper titled "International Convergence of Capital
       Measurements and Capital Standards" dated July 1988.

       "BREAK FUNDING COSTS" means any amounts required to compensate AEF for
       any losses, costs or expenses (including any loss, cost or expense
       incurred by reason of the liquidation or re-employment of funds acquired
       by AEF to fund or maintain the extensions of credit represented by any
       Loan but excluding any loss of profit or margin) that it incurs and any
       amounts required by AEF to indemnify the Lenders for any of the foregoing
       types of losses, costs or expenses with respect to the amounts made
       available to AEF to fund the Loans and that it incurs, in either case as
       a result of any unscheduled prepayment, repayment or acceleration of any
       Loan on a date that is not the last day of an Interest Period.

       "BUSINESS DAY" means (a) with respect to the provision of notices or the
       lapse of any grace or other period, any day (other than a Saturday or a
       Sunday) on which commercial banks are generally open for business in New
       York City, Luxembourg, London, Paris and The District of Columbia, (b) in
       the context of the definition of "Interest Period" and for purposes of
       setting the date for the making of a Loan, a day that is also a day on
       which dealings in Dollar deposits are carried out in the London interbank
       market and (c) with respect to the making of any payment, any day (other
       than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which commercial banks are generally open
       for business in New York City and The District of Columbia.

       "BUSINESS PLAN" means, as the context may require, the Preliminary
       Business Plan, if one has been submitted pursuant to Section 9.01(a), or,
       if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 2 Customer or
       Category 3 Customer, the Conversion Business Plan prepared by the
       Customer, as in effect from time to time as provided in accordance with
       the terms hereof.


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       "CAPEX BUDGET" means a plan for capital expenditures to be made by the
       Customer Group over the Tranche B Term that a Customer determined to be a
       Category 1C Customer may, at its option (but shall not be obligated to),
       (a) furnish to AEF under Section 9.02(c)(i) and (b) update and furnish to
       AEF within thirty (30) days before the end of any fiscal year of the
       Customer to set forth a revised plan for capital expenditures for the
       remainder of the Tranche B Term, such updated plan to be in form and
       substance satisfactory to AEF.

       "CAPITAL LEASE OBLIGATIONS" means all monetary obligations of a Person
       under any leasing or similar arrangement that, in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, is classified as a capital
       lease.

       "CASH EQUIVALENTS" means the following investments, if and to the extent
       they are denominated in Acceptable Currencies:

             (a) securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured (i) by the
                 government of a country the short-term sovereign debt of which
                 is rated at least A-1 by S&P (or any local affiliate or
                 associated agency thereof) or P-1 by Moody's (or any local
                 affiliate or associated agency thereof) and which is a member
                 of the OECD, or by any agency of any such government, and
                 backed by the full faith and credit of such government, or (ii)
                 by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
                 (the World Bank), in each case having maturities of not more
                 than twelve (12) months from the date of acquisition;

             (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, Eurodollar time
                 deposits, or bankers' acceptances having in each case a tenor
                 of not more than six (6) months, issued by any Lender or by any
                 commercial bank organized under the laws of any country that is
                 a member of the OECD, and whose short term securities are rated
                 at least A-1 by S&P (or any local affiliate or associated
                 agency thereof) or P-1 by Moody's (or any local affiliate or
                 associated agency thereof);

             (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated either at least A-1 by S&P
                 (or any local affiliate or associated agency thereof) or P-1 by
                 Moody's (or any local affiliate or associated agency thereof),
                 and in either case having a tenor of not more than three (3)
                 months; and

             (d) repurchase agreements with any financial institution whose
                 short term securities are rated at least A-1 by S&P (or any
                 local affiliate or associated agency thereof) or P-1 by Moody's
                 (or any local affiliate or associated agency thereof), fully
                 collateralized by securities issued or fully guaranteed or
                 insured by the government of a country the short- term
                 sovereign debt of which is rated at least A-1 by S&P (or any
                 local affiliate or associated agency thereof) or P-1 by Moody's
                 (or any local affiliate or associated agency thereof) and which
                 is a member of the

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                 OECD, or by any agency of any such government, and backed by
                 the full faith and credit of such government.

       "CATEGORY 1 CUSTOMER" means the Customer, if the Customer has satisfied
       the requirements of ANNEX 1, as determined by AEF pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), and to which the terms set forth in ANNEX 1, together with the
       other terms herein applicable to it, shall apply during the Tranche B
       Term.

       "CATEGORY 1A CUSTOMER" means a Category 1 Customer that has been assigned
       to the 1A subcategory of Category 1 pursuant to Section 9.02(e).

       "CATEGORY 1B CUSTOMER" means a Category 1 Customer that has been assigned
       to the 1B subcategory of Category 1 pursuant to Section 9.02(e).

       "CATEGORY 1C CUSTOMER" means a Category 1 Customer that has been assigned
       to the 1C subcategory of Category 1 pursuant to Section 9.02(e).

       "CATEGORY 1C QL LOAN LIFE COVER RATIO" means the ratio, calculated as of
       the Conversion Date (and, subject to Section 7.13(b), at no other time)
       of (a) the aggregate of (i) the net present value (at a discount rate
       reasonably acceptable to AEF) of the aggregate QL Cash Flow for the
       Tranche B Term, LESS (ii) interest (at a rate reasonably acceptable to
       AEF) payable during the Tranche B Term on Indebtedness secured (or
       entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of the Collateral and scheduled
       to be outstanding after the Tranche B Term, PLUS (iii) the aggregate
       total of any funds placed in escrow pursuant to Section 11.09(a) hereof
       to (b) the aggregate of (i) the principal amount of the Tranche B Loan
       then outstanding, PLUS (ii) any other Indebtedness then outstanding
       secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of the Collateral
       and scheduled to be repaid during the Tranche B Term.

       "CATEGORY 2 CF LOAN LIFE COVER RATIO" means, as of the date of
       calculation, the ratio, calculated as of such date under the Conversion
       Base Case or, for purposes of Section 12.04(b)(iv), the Base Case as
       updated from time to time to reflect the updated Business Plan furnished
       under Section 6.02(c)(ii), of (a) the aggregate of (i) the net present
       value of Total Cash Flow for the remaining Tranche B Term (at a discount
       rate reasonably acceptable to AEF, taking into account the Rate Contracts
       entered into in accordance with Section 6.15), LESS (ii) interest (at a
       rate reasonably acceptable to AEF, taking into account the Rate Contracts
       entered into in accordance with Section 6.15) payable during such year
       and each subsequent year during the then remaining Tranche B Term on (A)
       Indebtedness secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of the
       Collateral and (B) the principal amount of all other Indebtedness (other
       than Subordinated Indebtedness and (to the extent agreed by AEF)
       Contingent Obligations) of the Customer then outstanding, and, in each
       case, scheduled to be outstanding after the Tranche B Term, PLUS (iii)
       the aggregate total of any funds placed in escrow pursuant to Section
       12.03(a) to (b) the sum (without duplication) of (i) the then outstanding
       principal amount of the Tranche B Loan, PLUS (ii) the principal amount of
       any Indebtedness then outstanding and secured (or entitled to be secured)
       by a Lien on any of the Collateral and scheduled to be repaid during the

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       Tranche B Term, PLUS (iii) the principal amount of all other Indebtedness
       (other than Subordinated Indebtedness and (to the extent agreed by AEF)
       Contingent Obligations) of the Customer then outstanding and scheduled to
       be repaid during the Tranche B Term.

       "CATEGORY 2 CUSTOMER" means the Customer, if the Customer has satisfied
       the requirements of ANNEX 2, as determined by AEF pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), and to which the terms set forth in ANNEX 2, together with the
       other terms herein applicable to it, shall apply during the Tranche B
       Term.

       "CATEGORY 2 QL LOAN LIFE COVER RATIO" means the ratio, calculated as of
       the Conversion Date (and, subject to Section 7.13(b), at no other time)
       under the Conversion Base Case, prospectively for each year during the
       Tranche B Term, of (a) the aggregate of (i) the net present value (at a
       discount rate equal to the debt interest rate used in the preparation of
       the Conversion Base Case) of the QL Cash Flow for such year and each such
       subsequent year during the then remaining Tranche B Term, LESS (ii)
       interest (at a rate equal to the debt interest rate used in the
       preparation of the Conversion Base Case) payable during such year and
       each such subsequent year during the then remaining Tranche B Term on
       Indebtedness secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of the
       Collateral and scheduled to be outstanding after the Tranche B Term, PLUS
       (iii) the aggregate total of any funds placed in escrow pursuant to
       Section 12.03(a), to (b) the aggregate of (i) the principal amount of the
       Tranche B Loan then outstanding, PLUS (ii) any other Indebtedness then
       outstanding and secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of
       the Collateral and scheduled to be outstanding at the beginning of such
       year and each such subsequent year and scheduled to be repaid during the
       Tranche B Term.

       "CATEGORY 3 CUSTOMER" means the customer, if the Customer has satisfied
       the requirements of ANNEX 3, as determined by AEF pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), and to which the terms set forth in ANNEX 3, together with the
       other terms herein applicable to it, shall apply during the Tranche B
       Term.

       "CATEGORY 3 LOAN LIFE COVER RATIO" means the ratio, calculated as of the
       Conversion Date (and, subject to Section 7.13(b), at no other time) under
       the Conversion Base Case, prospectively for each year during the Tranche
       B Term, of (a) the aggregate of (i) the net present value (at a discount
       rate equal to the debt interest rate used in the preparation of the
       Conversion Base Case) of Total Cash Flow for such year and each such
       subsequent year during the then remaining Tranche B Term, LESS (ii)
       interest (at a rate equal to the debt interest rate used in preparation
       of the Conversion Base Case) payable for such year and each such
       subsequent year during the then remaining Tranche B Term on Indebtedness
       secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of the Collateral
       and scheduled to be outstanding after the Tranche B Term, to (b) the sum
       (without duplication) of (i) the then outstanding principal amount of the
       Tranche B Loan, PLUS (ii) the principal amount of any Indebtedness then
       outstanding and secured (or entitled to be secured) by a Lien on any of
       the Collateral and scheduled to be repaid during the Tranche B Term, PLUS
       (iii) the principal amount of all other Indebtedness (other than
       Subordinated Indebtedness and

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       (to the extent agreed by AEF) Contingent Obligations) of the Customer
       then outstanding and scheduled to be repaid during the Tranche B Term.

       "CATEGORY 3 PREVIEW" means the preview process described in Section 9.01.

       "C-BAND TRANSPONDERS" means transponders operating in the portion of the
       radio-frequency spectrum that covers approximately 4 gigahertz to 8
       gigahertz.

       "CLOSING DATE" means the date on which all conditions precedent set forth
       in Section 4.01 are satisfied by the Customer or waived by AEF as
       evidenced by a certificate to such effect executed and delivered by AEF
       to the Customer.

       "CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

       "COLLATERAL" means all right, title and interest in and to:

             (a) the Satellite;

             (b) the Satellite Purchase Agreement;

             (c) the TTC&M Facilities, if at any time owned by the Customer, or
                 otherwise, the TTC&M Contract;

             (d) any Government Approval relating to the Satellite, and any
                 other Government Approval relating to any other part of the
                 Project owned by the Customer, but excluding any such
                 Government Approval relating solely to the construction of any
                 portion of the Project if such construction has been fully
                 completed;

             (e) any intangible rights necessary to control, operate and
                 transfer ownership of the Satellite;

             (f) the benefits of any indemnity, warranty or guarantee in respect
                 of the Satellite, the TTC&M Facilities or the assets referred
                 to in (g) below (but only if and to the extent that the Project
                 Financing is also secured by a Lien on such assets);

             (g) gateway, ground reception and similar facilities owned by the
                 Customer or any Affiliate thereof or leasehold interests in
                 such facilities leased by the Customer or any Affiliate
                 thereof, each to the extent related to the Satellite where the
                 Project Financing is also secured by a Lien on such gateways,
                 ground reception and similar facilities, and if, at any time
                 after the date hereof, (i) the Customer or any Affiliate
                 thereof acquires title to any of the foregoing items or (ii)
                 any of the foregoing items becomes subject to a Lien for the
                 benefit of the Project Lenders pursuant to any Project
                 Financing, such items shall thereupon form part of the
                 Collateral (it being understood and agreed that until such
                 time, if

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                 any, as either of the conditions referred to in the foregoing
                 subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (g) is satisfied, the
                 items referred to in this paragraph (g) shall not be deemed to
                 be Collateral for purposes of this Agreement);

             (h) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
                 Customer or a Category 2 Customer, the Qualified Lease
                 Agreements;

             (i) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
                 Customer or Category 2 Customer, the Transponder Lease
                 Agreements (other than Qualified Lease Agreements), PROVIDED
                 that the Customer shall not be in breach of its obligations
                 under this Agreement to the extent that the Customer has
                 diligently sought to effect an assignment of such agreements by
                 eliciting the lessee's consent to such assignment and is unable
                 to achieve the same;

             (j) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 3
                 Customer that is a Leased Satellite Customer, the Transponder
                 Lease Agreements, PROVIDED that the Customer shall not be in
                 breach of its obligations under this Agreement to the extent
                 that the Customer has diligently sought to effect an assignment
                 of such agreements by eliciting the lessee's consent to such
                 assignment and is unable to achieve the same, PROVIDED that
                 such agreements constituting at least fifty percent (50%) of
                 aggregate projected revenues reflected in the Business Plan
                 shall have been assigned to the Security Agent with all
                 required consents thereto obtained;

             (k) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 3
                 Customer that is not a Leased Satellite Customer, the
                 Transponder Lease Agreements;

             (l) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
                 Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, the
                 Revenue Accounts and all cash balances and investments held
                 therein;

             (m) in relation to a Customer offering an equity pledge in
                 accordance with Section 9.04(c)(i), one hundred percent (100%)
                 of its stock certificates or other equity interests in such
                 Customer or the special purpose vehicle, as the case may be;

             (n) in relation to all Customer Categories, all proceeds deriving
                 from the above-specified Collateral in subsections (a) through
                 (m) above, as the same may be supplemented pursuant to Section
                 9.03;

             (o) rights to receive certain payments under the Launch Services
                 Agreement provided or to be provided for in the Multiparty
                 Agreement as a "delegation" under French law;

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             (p) the proceeds of insurance maintained pursuant to Section 6.06
                 in respect of which the Security Agent is required by Section
                 6.06(c) to be named as loss payee;

             (q) any other rights or assets constituting additional Collateral
                 pursuant to Section 9.03; and

             (r) any collateral provided by the Customer or an Affiliate thereof
                 to secure a loan by AEF to the Customer or such Affiliate
                 pursuant to another customer loan agreement, provided that the
                 Customer or such Affiliate shall have been determined to be in
                 the same "Customer Category" in such other customer loan
                 agreement as hereunder.

       It is acknowledged and agreed that, solely for purposes of determining
       whether the items referred to in the foregoing clauses (f) and (g)
       constitute Collateral, the term "Project Financing" as used in said
       clauses shall be deemed not to include any financing that is not secured
       by any of the items referred to in any of the other clauses of this
       definition.

       "COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS" means the Assignment and Security Agreement, the
       TTC&M Mortgage (if applicable), the Consents to Assignment, and other
       documents to be entered into in order that a Lien is granted and
       perfected on or in the Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof and
       all financing statements, registrations and other filings (or comparable
       documents) now or hereafter filed or to be filed in connection therewith
       and (without prejudice to the provisos contained in clauses (i) and (j)
       of the definition of "Collateral" in this Section 1.01) any consents
       required from any Person in connection therewith.

       "COMMITMENT" means, during the Tranche A Term, the Tranche A Commitment,
       and, during the Tranche B Term, the Conversion Commitment.

       "COMMITMENT FEE" means the fee payable quarterly in arrears by the
       Customer to AEF calculated as a percentage per annum of the daily average
       unused portion of the Tranche A Commitment Amount for each day during the
       preceding quarterly period, in the amount and as set forth in the Fee
       Letter.

       "COMPARABLE FINANCING TRANSACTION" means the Customer's most recent
       long-term, asset-based financing of comparable term, with comparable
       security and on comparable conditions funded with debt from international
       banks, if such financing was entered into not earlier than the date
       falling two (2) years prior to the date hereof and not later than the
       date hereof.

       "CONSENTS TO ASSIGNMENT" mean the acknowledgments and consents to
       assignment to be given by Lessees of Qualified Lease Agreements in
       accordance with the terms hereof.

       "CONSOLIDATED NET WORTH" means the aggregate, on any date of
       determination, of:

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             (a) the amount paid up or credited as paid up on the issued
                 ordinary and preference share capital of the Customer Group
                 (excluding any Disqualified Capital Stock); and

             (b) the amount standing to the credit of the capital and revenue
                 reserves of the Customer Group;

       but adjusted (to the extent that the following items have not already
       been added, deducted or excluded in calculating (a) or (b) above) by:

             (i) adding any amount standing to the credit of the profit and loss
                 account for members of the Customer Group since the Base Date
                 to the extent the amount is not attributable to any dividend or
                 other distribution declared, recommended or made by any member
                 of the Customer Group (other than to another member of the
                 Customer Group);

            (ii) deducting any amount standing to the debit of the profit and
                 loss account for members of the Customer Group since the Base
                 Date;

           (iii) deducting the sum of the following: cost of treasury shares
                 and the book value of all assets that should be classified as
                 intangibles (without duplication of deductions in respect of
                 items already deducted in arriving at surplus and retained
                 earnings) but in any event including licenses, goodwill,
                 minority interests, research and development costs, trademarks,
                 trade names, copyrights and patents and franchises;

            (iv) reflecting any variation in the amount of the Customer's
                 issued share capital and capital and revenue reserves after the
                 Base Date; and

             (v) reflecting any variation in the interest of the Customer in any
                 other member of the Customer Group since the Base Date.

       "CONSTRUCTION AND PAYMENT SCHEDULE" means the construction and payment
       schedule prepared and certified by a Responsible Officer of the SPA Party
       setting forth the specific dates for payments to be made under the
       Satellite Purchase Agreement and the TTC&M Contract, and the maximum
       amount of each such payment, as such specific dates and payment amounts
       may be adjusted pursuant to the terms of the Satellite Purchase Agreement
       and the TTC&M Contract (as the case may be).

       "CONSTRUCTIVE TOTAL FAILURE" has the meaning ascribed to that term or a
       term substantially similar to such term in the launch and initial
       operations insurance or in the in-orbit insurance (whichever is then in
       effect) procured or caused to be procured by the Customer as required by
       Section 6.06(b).

       "CONTINGENT OBLIGATION" means, as applied to any Person, any direct or
       indirect liability of that Person with respect to any Indebtedness,
       lease, dividend, letter of credit or other obligation (for purposes of
       this definition, the "PRIMARY OBLIGATIONS")

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       of another Person (for purposes of this definition, the "PRIMARY
       OBLIGOR"), including any obligation of that Person, whether or not
       contingent (a) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such primary
       obligations or any property constituting direct or indirect security
       therefor, (b) to advance or provide funds (i) for the payment or
       discharge of any such primary obligation or (ii) to maintain working
       capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain
       the net worth or solvency or any balance sheet item, level of income or
       financial condition of the primary obligor, (c) to purchase property,
       securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of
       any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make
       payment of such primary obligation, (d) otherwise to assure or hold
       harmless the holder of any such primary obligation against loss in
       respect thereof or (e) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to
       assure a creditor against loss in respect of, any Indebtedness. For
       purposes of this definition, the amount of any Contingent Obligation
       shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the maximum reasonably
       anticipated liability in respect thereof, as reasonably determined by
       such Person's independent auditors.

       "CONTRACT" means (a) any agreement (whether bilateral, unilateral,
       executory or non-executory, and whether a Person entitled to rights
       thereunder is so entitled directly or as a third party beneficiary),
       including an indenture, lease or license or (b) any deed or other
       instrument of conveyance.

       "CONVERSION" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).

       "CONVERSION AMOUNT" means the amount of Tranche A Outstandings actually
       converted to the Tranche B Loan on the Conversion Date, the aggregate of
       such amounts not to exceed the Conversion Commitment Amount.

       "CONVERSION BASE CASE" means the Base Case for the Customer as described
       in Section 9.02.

       "CONVERSION BUSINESS PLAN" means the Business Plan of the Customer
       submitted to AEF as described in Section 9.02, which shall be sufficient
       to enable AEF to determine whether the applicable Conversion Conditions
       will have been satisfied as of the Conversion Commitment Date in
       accordance with Section 9.02(e), and containing at a minimum, and without
       limitation, the following information with respect to the Project:

             (a) details of the Project sponsor or Project sponsors, a general
                 description of the Customer's business and organization, the
                 then-current equity holdings therein and general biographical
                 information as to key management team members;

             (b) projections of all capital and operating costs (including
                 material taxes) and revenues the Project is projected to
                 generate with sufficient information (including the details of
                 assumptions underlying such projections) in each case for AEF
                 and the Lenders to assess the Project;

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             (c) a general description of the target market for the Project,
                 which shall include a statement of the percentage of such
                 target market that the Customer proposes to capture;

             (d) a technical description of the Project;

             (e) an overview of the laws and regulations applicable to the
                 Project and the status of requisite governmental approvals for
                 the construction, launch and operation thereof;

             (f) a description of the Collateral that is expected to be
                 available for the benefit of AEF and the Lenders and whether a
                 first priority, perfected Lien will and can be granted and
                 perfected thereon;

             (g) a general description of the proposed sources of finance for
                 the Project, along with a description of the manner in which
                 such financing will be secured;

             (h) a general description of risks material to the core business of
                 the Project to the extent not otherwise described in this
                 definition of Conversion Business Plan or covered by insurance;
                 and

             (i) details of underlying economic assumptions and factors,
                 including inflation, interest and exchange rates.

       "CONVERSION COMMITMENT" means the commitment by AEF to the Customer
       issued on the Conversion Commitment Date for the Conversion (or
       Reconversion, as the case may be) of the Conversion Commitment Amount
       upon the terms and subject to the conditions of this Agreement, relating
       to a Launch (or Reflight, as the case may be) to occur on the
       then-scheduled date of Launch and extending up to ninety (90) days after
       such date (to accommodate possible launch postponements).

       "CONVERSION COMMITMENT AMOUNT" means the amount of Tranche A Outstandings
       (including Tranche A Loans, the proceeds of which have been or will be
       applied to the payment of Finance Costs) that may be converted to a
       Tranche B Loan on the Conversion Date, such amount being equal to the
       product of the Tranche B Advance Rate and the Launch Costs (which product
       in any event shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of (a) sixty
       percent (60%) of the Launch Costs and (b) fifty-two million eight hundred
       thousand Dollars ($52,800,000)).

       "CONVERSION COMMITMENT DATE" means the date, if any, on which AEF shall
       deliver the Conversion Commitment Letter following the determination set
       forth in Section 9.02(e).

       "CONVERSION COMMITMENT LETTER" means the notice given by AEF to the
       Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, identifying the applicable
       Customer Category and setting forth the terms and conditions of the
       Conversion Commitment.

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       "CONVERSION CONDITIONS" means the conditions set forth in Section 4.02.

       "CONVERSION DATE" means the date on which Conversion occurs.

       "CONVERSION FEE" means the fee payable by the Customer on the Conversion
       Date to AEF calculated as a percentage of the Conversion Amount as set
       forth in the Fee Letter.

       "CONVERSION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" has the meaning specified in Section
       5.10(b).

       "CONVERSION REQUEST DATE" means the date that the Customer delivers to
       AEF the items referred to in Section 9.02(d).

       "CONVERT" means the occurrence of Conversion with respect to the Tranche
       A Loans.

       "COVERED PERSON" has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).

       "COVERED PROPERTY" has the meaning specified in Section 6.06(a).

       "COVERED TAXES" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(d).

       "CREDIT RATING" means, at any time, the credit rating most recently
       established by a Major Rating Agency for the Customer's Relevant Debt (as
       defined in the following sentence). For purposes of the preceding
       sentence, "CUSTOMER'S RELEVANT DEBT" means money borrowed by the Customer
       (a) the repayment of which is secured by, and only by, a satellite
       comparable to the Satellite (including in respect of the intended use of
       the Satellite) and other collateral comparable to the Collateral, and is
       not supported by any other type of credit-enhancement, (b) on terms and
       conditions comparable to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the
       Note and the Collateral Documents that are applicable after the
       Conversion Date and (c) where the ratio of (i) the amount, as reasonably
       determined by a qualified appraiser in a written appraisal prepared prior
       to the establishment of such credit rating, representing the assumed
       proceeds of a sale realizable from an orderly remarketing of such
       satellite under normal market conditions prevailing at the date of
       appraisal to (ii) all Indebtedness of the Customer secured by a Lien on
       such satellite on the date of the establishment of such credit rating
       does not exceed the ratio of (x) the Assumed Distress Value to (y) Total
       Senior Debt Outstanding on the date of the establishment of such Credit
       Rating; provided that if no such borrowed money of the Customer exists,
       "CUSTOMER'S RELEVANT DEBT" means the Customer's senior, long-term debt
       that is not secured or otherwise credit-enhanced, if any.

       "CURRENCY OF OBLIGATION" has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(a).

       "CURRENCY OF PAYMENT" has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(a).

       "CUSTOMER" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Agreement.


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       "CUSTOMER CATEGORY" means the category designated for the Customer with
       respect to this Agreement by AEF on the Conversion Commitment Date
       pursuant to Section 9.02(e) and in accordance with the criteria set forth
       in the Annexes attached hereto.

       "CUSTOMER GROUP" means the Customer and, if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1 Customer, the consolidated Subsidiaries of
       the Customer. All financial calculations hereunder to be made for the
       Customer Group shall, if the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1 Customer, be made on a consolidated basis in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

       "DECONVERSION" has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).

       "DEFAULT" means any event which, with the giving of notice or the lapse
       of time or both of the foregoing, would constitute an Event of Default.

       "DEFAULT RATE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(c)(ii).

       "DETERMINATION" has the meaning specified in Section 10.19.

       "DISQUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK" means capital stock of the Customer that may
       be redeemed, purchased or repurchased, or in respect of which sinking
       fund payments may be made, other than solely at the option of the
       Customer.

       "DISTRESS RECOVERY VALUE" means the product of the Assumed Distress Value
       multiplied by the ratio of the Conversion Amount to the Total Senior Debt
       Outstanding as of the Conversion Date.

       "DOLLARS" and "$" means lawful money of the United States of America.

       "DOMICILED" with respect to any Person means each jurisdiction:

             (a) in which such Person is incorporated or organized;

             (b) that is the primary jurisdiction in which such Person is
                 domiciled for the purposes of calculating corporation or other
                 taxes on its revenues or capital; or

             (c) in which, in accordance with the determination of any Lender,
                 consistently applied, pursuant to the policies or any decision
                 of a Governmental Authority or any court having jurisdiction
                 over such Lender, or another authority with which such Lender
                 customarily complies, such Person is domiciled.

       "EBITDA" ("earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization")
       means, for any period, the net income or net loss (or the equivalent) for
       the Customer Group for such period, determined in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

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       as follows (without duplication), using items reflected in the financial
       statements of the Customer Group, to the extent applicable:

             (a) after adding back (to the extent otherwise deducted) any
                 depreciation and amortization;

             (b) after adding back (if negative and to the extent otherwise
                 deducted) or after deducting (if positive and to the extent
                 otherwise added) any extraordinary items, including without
                 limitation those that would be treated as "exceptional items"
                 under generally accepted accounting principles in the United
                 Kingdom in cases where such generally accepted accounting
                 principles are the Specified GAAP for purposes hereof;

             (c) after adding back (to the extent otherwise deducted) corporate
                 taxes and the equivalents in any relevant jurisdiction;

             (d) after adding back (if negative and to the extent otherwise
                 deducted) or after deducting (if positive and to the extent
                 otherwise added) interest expense and interest income, whether
                 or not paid, deferred or capitalized;

             (e) before taking into account, to the extent not received by the
                 Customer Group in cash during such period, any income of the
                 Customer Group from any Affiliate or other investments (or any
                 such income accrued in respect of any prior period which has
                 not previously been paid), and before taking into account, to
                 the extent not received by the Customer Group in cash during
                 such period, any share of the profit of any Affiliate or other
                 investments and after taking into account dividends received in
                 cash during such period from any Affiliate or other
                 investments;

             (f) after adding back (to the extent otherwise deducted) the amount
                 of pension contributions and vacation and health benefits
                 provided by the Customer Group in respect of such period but
                 not paid in cash, to the extent only that they are not actually
                 paid in cash (and, for this purpose, if such amount for any
                 annual accounting period is not allocated on the basis of
                 quarterly accounting periods, it shall be deemed allocated
                 equally to each of the four (4) quarters comprised in such
                 annual accounting period);

             (g) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
                 Customer, after deducting (to the extent otherwise included)
                 any gain over book value arising in favor of the Customer Group
                 on the sale, lease or other disposal of any asset (other than
                 the sale of trading stock) during such period and any gain
                 arising on any revaluation of any asset during such period;

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             (h) after adding back (to the extent otherwise deducted) any loss
                 against book value incurred by the Customer Group on the sale,
                 lease or other disposal of any asset (other than the sale of
                 trading stock) during such period, or any loss on any
                 revaluation of any asset during such period; and

             (i) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1
                 Customer, after deducting (to the extent otherwise included)
                 the amount of profit (or adding back the amount of any loss) of
                 the Customer Group for such period which is attributable to
                 minority interests in any Subsidiary of the Customer.

       "ECA" means any one or more than one export credit agency as AEF may
       approve that, at the request of the Customer, AEF, AE or any Lender,
       provides ECA Country Risk Coverage or ECA Enhancement.

       "ECA COUNTRY RISK COVERAGE" means political risk coverage, in accordance
       with the statutory limitations in effect on the date hereof on such
       coverage (together with changes thereto as may be acceptable to AEF)
       available from the applicable ECA in an amount and on terms and
       conditions satisfactory to AEF, provided by one or more ECAs in support
       of the Tranche B Loan.

       "ECA ENHANCEMENT" means commercial risk coverage, in accordance with the
       statutory limitations in effect on the date hereof on such coverage
       (together with changes thereto as may be acceptable to AEF) available
       from the applicable ECA in an amount and on terms and conditions
       satisfactory to AEF, provided by one or more ECAs in support of the
       Tranche B Loan.

       "ECA GUARANTY FEE" means the fees payable by the Customer to AEF or any
       ECA in connection with ECA Country Risk Coverage or ECA Enhancement as
       advised by the relevant ECAs.

       "ECA PERCENTAGE" means the percentage of the Tranche B Loan guaranteed by
       ECA Enhancement, expressed as a percentage of the aggregate total amount
       of the Tranche B Loan then outstanding.

       "ECU" means the European Currency Unit being the unit of account used by
       the European Monetary System, the composition of which may from time to
       time be varied by the European Union.

       "ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" means (a) any Lender for itself or on behalf of any
       other Lender or Lenders or AEF, (b) a Subsidiary of any Person described
       in clause (a) above (for purposes of this definition, such Person being
       herein referred to as a "PERMITTED INSTITUTION") if such Permitted
       Institution enters into a legal, valid, binding and enforceable written
       guaranty, providing that such Permitted Institution shall be primarily
       and unconditionally liable to the Customer for all obligations of its
       Subsidiary, (c) any Affiliate of AEF or (d) any private or public holder
       or holders of

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       any Indebtedness of AEF pursuant to any private or public offering or any
       trustee or institution acting on their behalf.

       "ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIM" means all claims, however asserted, by any
       Governmental Authority or other Person alleging potential liability or
       responsibility for violation of any Environmental Law or for release or
       injury to the environment or threat to public health, personal injury
       (including sickness, disease or death), property damage, natural
       resources damage or otherwise alleging liability or responsibility for
       damage (punitive or otherwise), cleanup, removal, remedial or response
       costs, restitution, civil or criminal penalties, injunctive relief or
       other type of relief, resulting from or based upon (a) the presence,
       placement, discharge, emission or release (including intentional and
       unintentional, negligent and non-negligent, sudden or non-sudden,
       accidental or non-accidental placement, spills, leaks, discharges,
       emissions or releases) of any Hazardous Material at, in or from property,
       whether or not owned by the Customer or (b) any other circumstances
       forming the basis of any violation, or alleged violation, of any
       Environmental Law.

       "ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means all national, local or foreign laws, statutes,
       common law duties, rules, regulations, ordinances and codes, together
       with all administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses,
       authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental
       Authorities that are binding on, or are customarily complied with by, the
       Customer, in each case relating to environment, health and safety.

       "ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS" has the meaning specified in Section 5.11.

       "EQUIPMENT COST" means the aggregate of the costs for the construction
       and launch of the Satellite, the insurance procured and maintained for
       the Satellite and the construction of the TTC&M Facilities.

       "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
       amended.

       "ERISA AFFILIATE" means any Person that for purposes of Title IV of ERISA
       is a member of the controlled group of the Customer, or under common
       control with the Customer, within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code.

       "EURO" means the unit of currency used or to be used in the European
       monetary system following implementation of the European monetary union.

       "EVENT OF DEFAULT" means any of the events specified in Section 8.01.

       "EVENT OF LOSS" means, with respect to the Satellite, any loss of,
       destruction of or damage to the Satellite resulting in a failure to
       achieve its performance specifications and meet its intended purpose, any
       condemnation, seizure or taking, by exercise of the power of eminent
       domain by any Governmental Authority or other Person, thereof or the
       requisition of the use thereof pursuant to any final judgment, order,
       decree or proclamation remaining unvacated, undischarged, unstayed or
       unbonded pending

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       appeal for a period of ninety (90) days after the entry thereof, in all
       events including any Total Failure, Constructive Total Failure or Partial
       Failure.

       "EXCESS CASH FLOW" means, for any period, the excess of (a) the sum of
       (i) EBITDA for such period and (ii) the decrease, if any, in Non-Cash
       Working Capital during such period, over (b) the sum of (i) Total
       Interest for such period, (ii) income taxes of the Customer Group paid in
       cash during such period, (iii) capital expenditures of the Customer Group
       during such period, (iv) scheduled payments of principal of Indebtedness
       made by any member of the Customer Group during such period other than
       payments of Indebtedness owing to any member of the Customer Group, (v)
       voluntary prepayments of principal of the Tranche B Loan made during such
       period pursuant to Section 2.05(a) and (vi) the increase, if any, in
       Non-Cash Working Capital during such period.

       "EXPERT STUDIES" means technical, feasibility and marketing studies,
       prepared in respect of a Customer that may be or has been determined to
       be a Category 3 Customer, dated no earlier than fifteen (15) days prior
       to the date of delivery thereof to AEF, if appropriate to the Business
       Plan and required pursuant to the applicable Conversion Conditions, in
       form and substance acceptable to AEF, prepared by an expert or experts
       selected by AEF and acceptable to the Customer.

       "EXPORT LICENSE" means any license required to be granted to the Customer
       or the Satellite Manufacturer, by the government of the country of
       manufacture of the Satellite and the country of any component thereof or
       any other asset necessary to the Project requiring an export license,
       approving the export of the Satellite and any such component or asset.

       "FAIR MARKET VALUE" means the cash price in Dollars that would be
       obtained for the Satellite (together with the launch services for the
       Satellite, the supply of tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring
       facilities, and related insurance), in an arm's length sale transaction
       between an informed and willing seller and an informed and willing
       purchaser or user, each unrelated to the Customer or any Affiliate
       thereof and under no compulsion to effectuate the transaction and each
       having knowledge of all relevant facts, as determined by the Appraiser in
       the Appraisal.

       "FEE LETTER" means the letter dated as of the date hereof by AEF and
       acknowledged and agreed to by the Customer, specifying the fees referred
       to therein, as described in Section 2.08, and the Applicable Margin
       during the Tranche A Term.

       "FINANCE COSTS" means any one or more of, as determined by AEF, the ECA
       Guaranty Fee, the Upfront Fee and interest on the Tranche A Loans, in
       each case, to the extent capitalized pursuant to Section 2.07(d), as
       permitted by AEF.

       "FUNDED DEBT" means, for any Person, Indebtedness of such Person having a
       final maturity date more than one (1) year after the date of issuance,
       incurrence or assumption thereof by such Person, including the current
       portion of any such Indebtedness and including Indebtedness that is
       renewable or extendable, at the option


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       of the obligor, to a date more than one (1) year after the date of
       issuance, incurrence or assumption thereof.

       "FUNDING-RELATED TAXES" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(c).

       "GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES" means (a) at any time prior to
       the Conversion Date (for all purposes hereof other than a Category 3
       Preview, the determination of whether the Customer is to be a Category 1A
       Customer, a Category 1B Customer, a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2
       Customer or a Category 3 Customer, and the establishment of Conversion
       Conditions), generally accepted accounting principles in effect at such
       time in a jurisdiction in respect of which an internationally recognized
       independent public accounting firm has furnished an opinion (containing
       solely qualifications acceptable to AEF) in connection with its auditing
       of the Customer's financial statements, (b) at any time on or after the
       Conversion Date (solely for the purpose of defining the preparation and
       presentation of financial statements to be delivered under Section 6.01),
       generally accepted accounting principles in effect at such time in a
       country listed in ANNEX 4 hereto or (c) at all times and for all purposes
       not covered by the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), Specified GAAP, in each
       case referred to in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) and (c), consistently
       applied.

       "GOVERNMENT APPROVALS" means all Telecommunications Approvals, all Export
       Licenses, all foreign exchange control approvals, all Environmental
       Permits and any other authorizations, consents, approvals, licenses,
       rulings, permits, certifications, exemptions, filings or registrations by
       or with any Telecommunications Authority or other Governmental Authority
       required by applicable Requirements of Law to be obtained or held by the
       Customer in connection with (a) the due execution, delivery and
       performance by the Customer of its obligations, and the exercise of its
       rights, under the Loan Documents, the Satellite Contracts and any other
       agreement or instrument entered into from time to time relating to the
       Project, (b) the construction and completion of the Project and operation
       of the Project as contemplated by the Satellite Contracts and, if
       applicable, the Business Plan, (c) the export of the Satellite or any of
       its components and (d) the grant of the Liens created by the Collateral
       Documents and the validity, enforceability and perfection thereof and the
       exercise by the Security Agent of its rights and remedies thereunder.

       "GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any international body or any nation or
       government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central
       bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any entity
       exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative
       functions of or pertaining to government and any corporation or other
       entity owned or controlled, through stock or capital ownership or
       otherwise, by any of the foregoing.

       "GUARANTOR" or "GUARANTORS" has the meaning specified in ANNEX 1 hereto.

       "HAZARDOUS MATERIAL" means all those substances that are regulated by, or
       which may form the basis of liability under, any Environmental Law,
       including all

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       substances identified under any Environmental Law as a pollutant,
       contaminant, waste, solid waste, hazardous waste, hazardous constituent,
       special waste, hazardous substance, hazardous material or toxic
       substance, or petroleum or petroleum derived substance or waste.

       "INDEBTEDNESS" means, without duplication, any indebtedness of any Person
       for or in respect of:

             (a) borrowed money and any other amount raised under any other
                 transaction having the commercial effect of borrowing;

             (b) the amount of any liability in respect of the purchase price
                 for any assets or services, the payment of which is deferred
                 (including any deferred amount payable under the Satellite
                 Contracts);

             (c) all reimbursement obligations with respect to surety bonds,
                 letters of credit, bankers' acceptances and similar instruments
                 (in each case, whether or not matured);

             (d) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or
                 similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced
                 incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets
                 or businesses;

             (e) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale
                 or other title retention agreement, or incurred as financing,
                 in either case with respect to property acquired by the Person
                 (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank
                 under such agreement in the event of a default are limited to
                 repossession or sale of such property);

             (f) all Capital Lease Obligations;

             (g) the aggregate amount that would be payable by such Person under
                 all Rate Contracts to which it is a party if such Rate
                 Contracts were terminated at the time of determination minus
                 (to the extent such aggregate amount is subject to reduction
                 pursuant to valid and enforceable netting arrangements (either
                 within such Rate Contracts or in separate agreements) with the
                 respective counterparties) the amounts payable by the
                 respective counterparties under such Rate Contracts upon such
                 termination at such time;

             (h) indebtedness created pursuant to leveraged lease or sale and
                 leaseback financings intended to be repaid from the rentals
                 payable by the Person under such leveraged lease or sale and
                 leaseback financing;

             (i) all Contingent Obligations;


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             (j) any lease which, in accordance with any applicable tax law, is
                 classified as a loan or finance lease; and

             (k) all Indebtedness referred to in clauses (a) through (k) above
                 secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an
                 existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any
                 Lien upon or in property (including accounts and contract
                 rights) owned by such Person, even though such Person has not
                 assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness.

       In calculating the amount of any Indebtedness for all purposes hereof,
       there shall be excluded any amount thereof that has been irrevocably and
       unconditionally defeased by the deposit of cash or securities with the
       holder or holders, or an agent or trustee for the holder or holders, of
       such Indebtedness in accordance with the indenture, lease or other
       agreement governing the terms and conditions of such Indebtedness.

       "IN-ORBIT COMMISSIONING DATE" means the date on which initial in-orbit
       tests on the Satellite have been successfully completed and the Satellite
       enters commercial service, as evidenced by a certificate of a Responsible
       Officer of the SPA Party bearing such date and certifying that the
       results of the initial in-orbit tests either (a) comply with the required
       Satellite performance specifications as set forth in the Satellite
       Purchase Agreement or (b) are otherwise acceptable to the SPA Party.

       "INSOLVENCY PROCEEDING" means, with respect to any Person (a) any case,
       action, petition or proceeding before any court relating to bankruptcy,
       reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution,
       winding-up or relief of debtors or similar proceeding; or (b) any general
       assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshalling of
       assets for creditors or other similar arrangement, which in each case
       shall include any analogous proceeding or arrangement under the laws of
       the jurisdiction in which such Person is incorporated or any jurisdiction
       in which such Person carries on business that is recognized by a
       Governmental Authority of competent jurisdiction in the jurisdiction of
       incorporation of such Person.

       "INSURED PARTIES" means AEF, the Security Agent, the Lenders, the Project
       Agent and the Project Lenders.

       "INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT" means, if applicable, the Intercreditor
       Agreement to be negotiated in good faith and entered into on the date
       specified in Section 2.11 among AEF, the Lenders (or an agent acting on
       their behalf), the Project Agent (on behalf of the Project Lenders), the
       Security Agent and the applicable ECAs (if relevant), providing for,
       among other things, the sharing among such parties of the Liens on the
       Collateral and the proceeds thereof.

       "INTEREST BASIS" means, with respect to any Loan or unpaid amount for any
       specified period:


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             (a) the rate of interest per annum that appears on page 3750 or any
                 successor page of the Telerate screen which displays British
                 Bankers Association Settlement Rates for deposits in Dollars,
                 of the offered quotation for deposits in Dollars for such
                 specified period, without rounding, at or about 11:00 a.m.
                 (London time) on the Quotation Date; or

             (b) if the rate described in clause (a) does not so appear, the
                 rate per annum at which Dollar deposits are offered in the
                 London interbank market at such time for such specified period
                 as evidenced on another financial information service
                 publishing such rates as agreed by the Customer and AEF; or

             (c) if the rates described in clauses (a) and (b) above do not
                 appear (including, in the case of said clause (b), by reason of
                 the Customer and AEF failing to agree on an alternative
                 financial information service), the arithmetic mean (rounded
                 upwards, if not already such a multiple, to the nearest whole
                 multiple of one-sixteenth of one percent (1/16%)) of the rates
                 (as notified to AEF) at which each of the Reference Banks was
                 offering to prime banks in the London interbank market deposits
                 in Dollars for the specified period at or about 11:00 a.m.
                 (London time) on the Quotation Date for such specified period.

       For the purposes of this definition "specified period" shall mean the
       Interest Period of such Loan or, as the case may be, the period in
       respect of which the Interest Basis falls to be determined in relation to
       such unpaid amount.

       "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(b).

       "INTEREST PERIOD" means, with respect to any Loan, (a) the three (3)
       month period commencing on the Business Day such Loan is disbursed and
       each three (3) month period thereafter ending on the Interest Payment
       Date of the final whole three (3) month period immediately preceding the
       Conversion Commitment Date, (b) the one (1) month period commencing on
       the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the Conversion Commitment
       Date and each one (1) month period thereafter ending on the Interest
       Payment Date immediately following the In-Orbit Commissioning Date, and
       (c) the period from the end of the immediately preceding one (1) month
       period to the date that is three (3) months after the In-Orbit
       Commissioning Date and each three (3) month period thereafter ending on
       the date that such Loan is repaid or prepaid in full, in each case,
       subject to the following:

             (i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is
                 not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding
                 Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to
                 carry such Interest Period into another calendar month, in
                 which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately
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            (ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a
                 calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
                 corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such
                 Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the
                 calendar month at the end of such Interest Period;

           (iii) if any Interest Period would otherwise end after any Tranche
                 B Principal Payment Date, such Interest Period shall end on
                 such Tranche B Principal Payment Date; and

            (iv) if a new Loan is disbursed on a day that falls during an
                 Interest Period for another Loan, the first Interest Period for
                 such new Loan shall end on the last day of the Interest Period
                 for such other Loan.

       "ITU" means the International Telecommunication Union, or any successor
       agency thereto.

       "KU-BAND TRANSPONDERS" means transponders operating in the portion of the
       radio- frequency spectrum that covers approximately 12 gigahertz to 18
       gigahertz.

       "L" means, as of any date of determination, the then-scheduled date of
       Launch as determined pursuant to the Launch Services Agreement or, if the
       Launch is then so scheduled to occur on an unspecified date during a
       period that includes more than one day, the first day of such period.

       "LAUNCH" means "Launch # 1", as such term is defined in paragraph 6.1 of
       the Launch Services Agreement.

       "LAUNCH COSTS" means all amounts payable by the LSA Party to AE for
       launch and related services in respect of the Satellite pursuant to the
       terms of the Launch Services Agreement.

       "LAUNCH FAILURE" has the meaning ascribed to that term in the Launch
       Services Agreement.

       "LAUNCH SERVICES AGREEMENT" means that certain agreement, dated July 22,
       1997, between AE and the LSA Party, and any attachments related thereto,
       for the launching into orbit of the Satellite by a Launch Vehicle.

       "LAUNCH SERVICES PRICE" means the reference price used to calculate
       progress payments to AE for launch and associated services in respect of
       the Satellite, as agreed on the date of the execution and delivery of the
       Launch Services Agreement and provided for therein.

       "LAUNCH VEHICLE" means the vehicle belonging to the Ariane family (Ariane
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       "LEASED SATELLITE CUSTOMER" means any Category 3 Customer whose Project
       involves one or more geostationary communications satellites with ninety
       percent (90%) or more of the total bandwidth capacity thereon comprising
       C-Band Transponders, Ku-Band Transponders or a combination thereof being
       intended, pursuant to its Business Plan, to be leased to commercial
       companies or governmental agencies for communications services or
       broadcasting services.

       "LENDERS" means the Persons providing financing to AEF for the purpose of
       funding the Loans to the Customer, including any agent appointed by such
       Persons to act for and on behalf of them.

       "LENDING OFFICE" means, with respect to any Lender, the office or offices
       of such Lender as it may from time to time specify to AEF as such.

       "LESSEE" means the party (other than the Customer) to any Qualified Lease
       Agreement, which party (a) either (i) shall be a governmental or
       inter-governmental agency, or a bona fide third party commercial
       customer, in each case with a long-term senior unsecured debt credit
       rating of at least Baa3 by Moody's or BBB- by S&P (or the equivalent
       rating by another Major Rating Agency) or (ii) shall be a Person
       acceptable to AEF following its good faith assessment of the risks
       associated with such Person's ability to fulfill its obligations under
       such Qualified Lease Agreement, (b) neither AEF nor any Lender would be
       prohibited by any applicable Requirement of Law or by a Governmental
       Authority with jurisdiction over AEF or such Lender, as the case may be,
       or by another authority with which such Lender customarily complies, from
       making loans to by reason of such Lessee's connection with a Prohibited
       Country and (c) shall not be a Prohibited Person.

       "LICENSED" means the primary jurisdiction in which the Customer obtained
       or will obtain its licenses, permits, authorizations and consents in
       connection with the operation of the Satellite.

       "LIEN" means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, charge or
       deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other) or
       preference, priority or other security interest or preferential
       arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether fixed or floating
       (whether over present or future revenues or assets and including those
       created by, arising under or evidenced by any conditional sale or other
       title retention agreement, the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease
       Obligation, any financing lease having substantially the same economic
       effect as any of the foregoing, or the filing of any financing statement
       naming the owner of the asset to which such lien relates as debtor, under
       any applicable law) and any contingent or other agreement to provide any
       of the foregoing.

       "LOAN" or "LOANS" means any or all of the Tranche A Loans, the Tranche B
       Loans or both.

       "LOAN DOCUMENTS" means, collectively, this Agreement, the Note, the
       Multiparty Agreement, the Fee Letter, the Collateral Documents and the
       Intercreditor Agreement

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       and all executed agreements, instruments and documents delivered to AEF,
       AE or by the Customer or any Affiliate of the Customer in connection
       herewith and therewith.

       "LONG TERM DEBT TO CAPITALIZATION" means the sum for the Customer Group
       on the last day of the Relevant Period, determined without duplication in
       accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, of (a) the
       aggregate amount of all Funded Debt (excluding, for purposes of this
       definition, Contingent Obligations) PLUS (b) the aggregate amount of all
       Disqualified Capital Stock (excluding, for purposes of this definition,
       any portion thereof that has been irrevocably and unconditionally
       defeased by the deposit of cash or securities with the holder or holders,
       or an agent or trustee for the holder or holders, of such Disqualified
       Capital Stock in accordance with the instrument governing the terms and
       conditions of such Disqualified Capital Stock), such sum to be expressed
       as a percentage of the sum on such date for the Customer Group of (i) the
       aggregate amount of Funded Debt (excluding, for purposes of this
       definition, Contingent Obligations) PLUS (ii) the aggregate amount of all
       Disqualified Capital Stock (excluding, for purposes of this definition,
       any portion thereof that has been irrevocably and unconditionally
       defeased by the deposit of cash or securities with the holder or holders,
       or an agent or trustee for the holder or holders, of such Disqualified
       Capital Stock in accordance with the instrument governing the terms and
       conditions of such Disqualified Capital Stock) PLUS (iii) Consolidated
       Net Worth.

       "LOSSES" has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).

       "LSA PARTY" means the party (other than AE) to the Launch Services
       Agreement which may be the Customer (or any Affiliate thereof) or the
       Satellite Manufacturer (or any Affiliate thereof) if the Satellite is to
       be delivered to the Customer in-orbit.

       "MAJOR RATING AGENCY" means S&P, Moody's, any other internationally
       recognized credit rating agency acceptable to AEF, or any of their
       respective local affiliates or associated agencies.

       "MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means a material adverse change in, or a
       material adverse effect upon, any of:

             (a) the operation, business, assets or financial condition of the
                 Customer Group;

             (b) the ability of the Customer to perform its obligations or
                 enforce its rights under any Loan Document;

             (c) the value of the Collateral (including the revenues to be
                 generated therefrom);

             (d) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any
                 or all of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the
                 Satellite Contracts; or


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             (e) the perfection or priority of any Lien granted to the Security
                 Agent or any Lender, as the case may be, with respect to any
                 Collateral under any of the Collateral Documents.

       "MATERIAL SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person on any date (the
       "DETERMINATION DATE"), any Subsidiary of such Person (each, a "PRIMARY
       MATERIAL SUBSIDIARY") that (for the relevant period or date referred to
       below) accounted or accounts for ten percent (10%) or more of any of the
       following items (each, a "FINANCIAL CATEGORY") for such Person and its
       consolidated Subsidiaries: (a) gross revenues for the period of four (4)
       fiscal quarters of such Person ending on or most recently ended prior to
       the Determination Date, (b) operating profits for the period of four (4)
       fiscal quarters of such Person ending on or most recently ended prior to
       the Determination Date or (c) gross assets on the Determination Date;
       PROVIDED that if the Subsidiaries of such Person (other than the Primary
       Material Subsidiaries) that accounted or account, in the aggregate, for
       more than twenty percent (20%) of any of the Financial Categories for
       such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries, then the Material
       Subsidiaries of such Person shall also include each Subsidiary of such
       Person that accounted or accounts for a higher percentage of a Financial
       Category than any other Subsidiary of such Person (excluding Primary
       Material Subsidiaries) as at the Determination Date, together with each
       other Subsidiary of such Person designated from time to time by AEF,
       provided that there shall not be more than five (5) Material Subsidiaries
       that are not Primary Material Subsidiaries.

       "MATURITY DATE" means the date being the last day of the Tranche B Term,
       as set forth in the Conversion Commitment Letter in accordance with the
       conditions set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, as applicable, which in no event
       shall be later than April 14, 2009.

       "MAXIMUM TRANCHE B TERM" means the period set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3,
       as may be applicable to the Customer on and after the Conversion Date in
       relation to the designation by AEF of the Customer into a Customer
       Category, which shall end, in any case, no later than the Maturity Date.

       "MEASURING DATE" means, (a) so long as the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1 Customer or a Category 2 Customer for which
       quarterly financial statements are not required to be delivered pursuant
       to Section 6.01, the last day of every semi-annual fiscal period of the
       Customer for which financial statements are required to be delivered
       pursuant to Section 6.01, commencing with the first such fiscal
       period-end following the Conversion Date and (b) so long as the Customer
       shall have been determined to be a Category 2 Customer for which
       quarterly financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to
       Section 6.01 or a Category 3 Customer, the date of the last day of each
       fiscal quarter of the Customer, commencing with the first fiscal
       quarter-end following the Conversion Date.

       "MODELLING LENDER" means a Lender identified by AEF to act pursuant to
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       "MOODY'S" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

       "MULTIPARTY AGREEMENT" means the agreement dated as of the date hereof,
       among the Customer, AEF, AE and the LSA Party, relating, among other
       things, to payment instructions and reimbursement obligations among the
       parties thereto.

       "NON-CASH WORKING CAPITAL" means, at any time, (a) accounts receivable
       and inventory of the Customer Group at such time MINUS (b) the accounts
       payable of the Customer Group at such time.

       "NOTE" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12.

       "NOTICE OF CONVERSION" means a notice from AEF to the Customer stating
       that the Tranche A Loans have Converted to the Tranche B Loan.

       "NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN" means a written notice given by the Customer to AEF,
       requesting the making of a Tranche A Loan, substantially in the form of
       Exhibit A hereto, pursuant to Section 2.02.

       "NOTICE OF LIEN" means any "notice of lien" or similar document intended
       to be filed or recorded with any court, registry, recorder's office,
       central filing office or Governmental Authority for the purpose of
       evidencing, creating, perfecting or preserving the priority of a Lien
       securing obligations owing to a Governmental Authority.

       "OECD" means the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
       or any successor agency thereto.

       "OTHER INDEBTEDNESS FOR BORROWED MONEY" means Indebtedness of the
       Customer and its Subsidiaries that is not a Loan or a Project Loan and
       represents Indebtedness for borrowed money.

       "OTHER TAXES" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(b).

       "P&I DEBT SERVICE" means, for any period, the sum of (a) Total Interest
       with respect to P&I Indebtedness for such period PLUS (b) the aggregate
       amount of principal payments of P&I Indebtedness scheduled to have been
       made by the Customer Group during such period.

       "P&I INDEBTEDNESS" means, without duplication, the following items for
       the Customer Group, determined in accordance with Generally Accepted
       Accounting Principles: (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) all
       obligations issued, undertaken or assumed as the deferred purchase price
       of capital assets, (c) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds,
       debentures or similar instruments, including obligations so evidenced
       incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or
       businesses, excluding performance bonds, letters of credit and similar
       undertakings in connection with the construction, development or
       operation of any

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       business of the Customer Group to the extent that such undertakings do
       not secure an obligation for borrowed money or the deferred purchase
       price of a capital asset, (d) all indebtedness created or arising under
       any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or incurred as
       financing, in either case with respect to property acquired by the
       Customer Group (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or bank
       under such agreement in the event of a default are limited to
       repossession or sale of such property) and (e) all Indebtedness referred
       to in clauses (a) through (d) above (whether or not incurred by the
       Customer Group) secured by (or for which the holder of such P&I
       Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be
       secured by) any Lien upon or in property (including accounts and contract
       rights) owned by any member of the Customer Group even though such member
       has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness.

       "PARTIAL FAILURE" has the meaning ascribed to that term or a term
       substantially similar to such term in the launch and initial operations
       insurance the Customer is required to obtain pursuant to Section 6.06(b)
       or in the in-orbit insurance the Customer is required to obtain pursuant
       to Section 6.06(b), whichever is then in effect.

       "PERMITTED INVESTMENTS" has the meaning specified in Section 7.14.

       "PERMITTED LIENS" has the meaning specified in Section 7.01.

       "PERMITTED LOCATION" means any country listed on ANNEX 6 hereto.

       "PERSON" means an individual, partnership, corporation, business trust,
       joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
       voluntary organization or Governmental Authority.

       "PRELIMINARY BASE CASE" means the Base Case for the Customer as described
       in Section 9.01.

       "PRELIMINARY BUSINESS PLAN" means the Business Plan of the Customer
       submitted to AEF as described in Section 9.01 or submitted to AEF prior
       to the execution and delivery of this Agreement, which shall be in form
       sufficient to allow the AEF or the Lenders to make the determinations
       contemplated in Section 9.01 and containing at a minimum, and without
       limitation, the following information with respect to the Project:

             (a) details of the Project sponsor or Project sponsors, a general
                 description of the Customer's business and organization, the
                 then-current equity holdings therein and, if such information
                 is available, general biographical information as to key
                 management team members;

             (b) projections of all capital and operating costs (including
                 material taxes) and revenues the Project is projected to
                 generate with sufficient information (including the details of
                 assumptions underlying such projections) in each case for AEF
                 and the Lenders to assess the Project;

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             (c) a general description of the target market for the Project,
                 which shall include a statement of the percentage of such
                 target market that the Customer proposes to capture;

             (d) a technical description of the Project;

             (e) an overview of the laws and regulations applicable to the
                 Project and the status of requisite governmental approvals for
                 the construction, launch and operation thereof;

             (f) if such information is available, a description of the
                 Collateral that is expected to be available for the benefit of
                 AEF and the Lenders and whether a first priority, perfected
                 Lien will and can be granted and perfected thereon;

             (g) a general description of the proposed sources of finance for
                 the Project, along with a description of the manner in which
                 such financing will be secured; and

             (h) details of underlying economic assumptions and factors,
                 including inflation, interest and exchange rate.

       "PRE-TAX CASH INTEREST COVERAGE" means, for any Person, the lower of (a)
       the arithmetic mean of the Pre-Tax Cash Interest Coverage Components for
       such Person for the three (3) Relevant Sub-Periods and (b) the Pre-Tax
       Cash Interest Coverage Component for such Person for the last Relevant
       Sub-Period. For purposes of this definition, the "PRE-TAX CASH INTEREST
       COVERAGE COMPONENT" for any Person for any period means the ratio of
       EBITDA for such period to Total Interest for such Person for such period.

       "PROHIBITED COUNTRY" means, as to any Lender or AEF, any country into
       which bank or other financial institution lending activity is prohibited,
       declared unlawful or restricted by any authority (international, national
       or regional, including any regulatory authority, the regulations of which
       are customarily complied with by such Lender or AEF), having jurisdiction
       therefor in Luxembourg, the jurisdiction of incorporation of such Lender,
       the jurisdiction of the head office of such Lender, the jurisdiction
       where such Lender primarily conducts its business or the jurisdiction of
       such Lender's Lending Office.

       "PROHIBITED PERSON" means, as to any Lender or AEF, any Person that
       appears from time to time on the listing of Specially Designated
       Nationals and Blocked Persons issued by the Office of Foreign Assets
       Control, United States Department of the Treasury or any list of similar
       nature prohibiting, restricting or declaring unlawful lending activity to
       any Person (other than any list identifying Governmental Authorities)
       issued by any Governmental Authority in Luxembourg, any jurisdiction of
       incorporation of such Lender, the jurisdiction of the head office of such
       Lender, the jurisdiction in which such Lender primarily conducts its
       business or the

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       jurisdiction of such Lender's Lending Office or by any supranational body
       the regulations of which are customarily or mandatorily complied with by
       such Lender or AEF or a Person that is owned or controlled by, or derives
       any material portion of its revenues from, a Person on such list.

       "PROJECT" means, collectively, the construction, acquisition, financing,
       launch and operation of the Satellite (if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, as
       contemplated by the Business Plan), together with any related assets
       constituting Collateral.

       "PROJECT AGENT" means the agent, if any, acting for and on behalf of the
       Project Lenders, and any successor Project Agent appointed pursuant to
       the provisions of the Project Financing Agreements.

       "PROJECT FINANCING" means, if applicable, the secured debt financing for
       the construction, acquisition and operation of the Satellite, the TTC&M
       Facilities and other Project components other than launch services
       provided by the Project Lenders and secured by a Lien on all or a portion
       of the Collateral; PROVIDED that (a) solely for the purpose of the
       definition of "TOTAL ADVANCE RATE" (including, without limitation, but
       solely for such purpose, as used in ancillary definitions to the extent
       necessary to determine the "TOTAL ADVANCE RATE"), the term "PROJECT
       FINANCING" shall be deemed not to include any such secured debt financing
       that is not secured by the Satellite, (b) solely for the purpose of
       Section 6.06, the term "PROJECT FINANCING" shall be deemed not to include
       any such secured financing that is not secured by the Satellite and the
       holders of which are not entitled to share in the proceeds of any
       insurance maintained pursuant to said Section 6.06 and (c) solely for the
       purposes of Sections 2.11, 4.01(a)(vi), 4.02(e) and 4.03(a)(iii), the
       term "PROJECT FINANCING" shall be deemed not to include any such secured
       financing that is not secured by the Satellite unless otherwise directed
       or agreed to by AEF.

       "PROJECT FINANCING AGREEMENTS" means, if applicable, the agreements
       evidencing or governing the Project Financing.

       "PROJECT LENDERS" means the financial institutions party to the Project
       Financing Agreements as lenders and any Person that has been assigned any
       or all of the rights or obligations of a Project Lender as set forth
       therein or any successor thereto.

       "PROJECT LOAN" or "PROJECT LOANS" means any amount advanced by the
       Project Lenders pursuant to the Project Financing Agreements.

       "QL CASH FLOW" means, for any period, (a) the sum of the revenues from
       rental payments due under all of the Qualified Lease Agreements of the
       Customer for such period plus the decrease, if any, in Non-Cash Working
       Capital for such period less (b) the sum of (i) the operating expenses of
       the Customer; plus (ii) the income taxes paid in cash by the Customer;
       plus (iii) the increase in Non-Cash Working Capital, where the items
       described in clause (b) above have been allocated by the Customer among
       its various operations and sources of revenues in a manner acceptable to
       AEF

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       (provided that, if such manner is not acceptable to AEF, and AEF and the
       Customer do not otherwise agree to an allocation, the full amount of such
       items shall be subtracted pursuant to said clause (b)).

       "QL WEIGHTED AVERAGE TERM" means: (a) the sum of the products of the
       revenues from rental payments under all of the Qualified Lease Agreements
       multiplied by the respective numbers of years (calculated to one (1)
       decimal place) from the Conversion Date to the respective dates on which
       such rental payments are due, DIVIDED BY (b) the aggregate amount of all
       revenues from rental payments under all Qualified Lease Agreements.

       "QUALIFIED LEASE AGREEMENTS" means, if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1C Customer or a Category 2 Customer, valid,
       binding and enforceable agreements for the lease of transponders or use
       of the communications capacity of the Satellite, in form and substance
       satisfactory to AEF, which agreements shall have, without limitation, the
       features set out in ANNEX 2.

       "QUOTATION DATE" means, in relation to any period for which an interest
       rate is to be determined hereunder, the day on which quotations would
       ordinarily be given by prime banks in the London interbank market for
       deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of that period PROVIDED
       that, if, for any such period, quotations would ordinarily be given on
       more than one date, the Quotation Date for that period shall be the last
       of those dates.

       "RATE CONTRACTS" means any swap, option, cap, floor and collar
       agreements, interest rate insurance, currency spot and forward contracts
       and other derivative or hedging instruments and other agreements or
       arrangements designed to provide protection against fluctuations in
       interest or currency exchange rates.

       "RCB" means the Radiocommunication Bureau of the ITU.

       "RECONVERSION" has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(b).

       "RECOVERING PERSON" has the meaning specified in Section 3.02(a).

       "REFERENCE BANKS" means the principal London offices of Credit Lyonnais,
       ING Bank, and Societe Generale or such other bank or banks as may from
       time to time be agreed between the Customer and AEF.

       "REFLIGHT" means (a) with respect to an Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle, a
       "Reflight" of the Satellite or (b) with respect to an Ariane 4 Launch
       Vehicle, a Replacement Launch of the Satellite that is ordered during the
       Request Period and that is paid for substantially by a "Relaunch Credit
       Option", as such terms are defined in the Launch Services Agreement.

       "RELATED ACCOUNTING RECONCILIATION" means, with respect to any financial
       statements prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting
       Principles, calculations

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       and explanations in reasonable detail, and certified by an
       internationally-recognized independent public accounting firm,
       demonstrating the derivation from such financial statements of the
       results of the application in accordance with Specified GAAP of the tests
       set out in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, or the calculations in accordance with
       Specified GAAP necessary to determine compliance by the Customer with its
       covenants contained herein.

       "RELEVANT COMPANY" means (a) prior to the Conversion Commitment Date, the
       Customer, (b) on and after the Conversion Commitment Date, (i) if the
       Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1A Customer or a
       Category 1B Customer, the Customer or any Material Subsidiary of the
       Customer, (ii) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1C Customer, the Customer or any Subsidiary of the Customer and
       (iii) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 2
       Customer or a Category 3 Customer, the Customer.

       "RELEVANT PERIOD" means the period of three (3) consecutive fiscal years
       of the Customer ending on or most recently ended prior to the Conversion
       Commitment Date, PROVIDED that if the Conversion Commitment Date falls in
       the second semi-annual fiscal period of a fiscal year of the Customer,
       the "RELEVANT PERIOD" means the period of two (2) consecutive fiscal
       years of the Customer ending on or most recently ended prior to the
       Conversion Commitment Date and the portion of the next succeeding fiscal
       year of the Customer ending on the last day of the first semi-annual
       fiscal period of such fiscal year of the Customer.

       "RELEVANT SUB-PERIOD" means each fiscal year of the Customer that falls
       completely within the Relevant Period, and if the Conversion Commitment
       Date falls in the second semi-annual fiscal period of a fiscal year of
       the Customer, the period of two (2) consecutive semi-annual fiscal
       periods of the Customer ending on or most recently ended prior to the
       Conversion Commitment Date.

       "REPAYMENT PROFILE" means a schedule determined by AEF in its sole
       discretion but within the parameters set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, as may
       be applicable to the Customer in relation to the designation by AEF of
       the Customer into a Customer Category, and the amortization schedule set
       forth in the Fee Letter, listing:

             (a) the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Loans drawn during
                 the Tranche A Term;

             (b) the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Loans drawn prior
                 to the Conversion Commitment Date;

             (c) the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Loans that are
                 projected to be drawn on or after the Conversion Commitment
                 Date;

             (d) the projected Conversion Amount;


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             (e) the Tranche B Required Installment Amounts to be paid during
                 the Tranche B Term; and

             (f) the Maturity Date.

       "REPLACEMENT LAUNCH" has the meaning ascribed to that term in the Launch
       Services Agreement.

       "REQUEST PERIOD" means (a) with respect to an Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle,
       the period as set forth in Section 4.7 of the Launch Services Agreement
       and (b) with respect to an Ariane 4 Launch Vehicle, the period that is
       six (6) months after the Launch, during which, in both cases, the LSA
       Party may notify AE of a claimed right to a Reflight.

       "REQUIRED DISTRESS RECOVERY VALUE" means the minimum required percentage
       that the Distress Recovery Value is of the Conversion Commitment Amount
       as of the Conversion Commitment Date and the minimum required percentage
       that the Distress Recovery Value is of the Conversion Amount as of the
       Conversion Date, as the case may be, as set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, as
       may be applicable to the Customer upon the designation by AEF of the
       Customer into a Customer Category.

       "REQUIREMENT OF LAW" means, as to any Person, any law (statutory or
       common), treaty, rule, order, delegated legislation or regulation of a
       Governmental Authority or determination of an arbitrator, in each case
       applicable to or binding upon the Person or any of its property or to
       which the Person or any of its property is subject.

       "RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" means, as to the Customer or any other Person, the
       chief executive officer, the director general, the secretary general, the
       president or a duly authorized vice president, assistant director
       general, a director or a managing director of the Customer or such other
       Person.

       "RESTRICTED PAYMENT" shall mean (a) dividends (in cash, property or
       obligations) on, or other payments or distributions on account of, or the
       setting apart of money for a sinking or other analogous fund for, or the
       purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of, any shares of
       any class of stock of the Customer or of any warrants, options or other
       rights to acquire the same (or to make any payments to any Person, such
       as "phantom stock" payments, where the amount thereof is calculated with
       reference to the fair market or equity value of the Customer or any of
       its Subsidiaries), but excluding dividends payable solely in shares of
       capital stock of the Customer, (b) the purchase or acquisition of, or the
       entering into of any commitment for, any capital stock, equity interest,
       obligations or other securities of or any interest in, or make any
       advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to or any
       other investment in, any Affiliate of the Customer and (c) (except to the
       extent included in the Business Plan if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 3 Customer and except to the extent
       acceptable to AEF if the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1C Customer) management fees,

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       payments made pursuant to cost or tax sharing arrangements, or similar
       payments, in any case to the extent paid to any Affiliate of the
       Customer.

       "RESUBMISSION" has the meaning specified in Section 9.01(b)(v).

       "REVISED SUBMISSION" has the meaning specified in Section 9.01(b)(iii).

       "REVENUE ACCOUNTS" means, if the Customer shall have been determined to
       be a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3
       Customer, the account or accounts of the Customer into which all revenues
       from Transponder Lease Agreements, Qualified Lease Agreements and all
       other agreements between the Customer and a lessee for the lease of
       transponders or use of communications capacity on the Satellite that are
       excluded from the definition of Transponder Lease Agreements by virtue of
       clause (a) thereof shall be paid, which account or accounts shall be held
       with a bank or trust institution, and in a location acceptable to AEF.

       "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Service, a division of The
       McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

       "SATELLITE" means the satellite to be launched by AE under the Launch
       Services Agreement by "Launch # 1", as such term is defined in the Launch
       Services Agreement, the launch and related services of which are being
       financed under this Agreement.

       "SATELLITE CONTRACTS" means, as of any date, collectively, the Launch
       Services Agreement, the Satellite Purchase Agreement, the TTC&M Contract
       and each material contract to which the Customer or an Affiliate is party
       that is necessary to the construction, operation or use of the assets
       referred to in clause (g) of the definition of "COLLATERAL".

       "SATELLITE MANUFACTURER" means the prime contractor and manufacturer of
       the Satellite that is a party to the Satellite Purchase Agreement.

       "SATELLITE PURCHASE AGREEMENT" means that certain satellite purchase
       agreement dated March 2, 1993, between the Satellite Manufacturer and the
       SPA Party and any attachments related thereto, for the manufacture and
       delivery of the Satellite and related satellite control facilities and
       services if forming part of such satellite purchase agreement (including
       warranties) by the Satellite Manufacturer, which agreement shall be in
       form and substance satisfactory to AEF as determined on the Conversion
       Commitment Date.

       "SECURITY AGENT" means a Person acceptable to the Lenders, AEF, the
       Customer and the Project Lenders, if any, acting as agent for and on
       behalf of AEF, the Lenders and the Project Lenders, if any, and any
       successor Security Agent appointed pursuant to the provisions of the
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       "SPA PARTY" means the party (other than the Satellite Manufacturer) to
       the Satellite Purchase Agreement which may be the Customer or any
       Affiliate thereof.

       "SPECIFIED GAAP" means, at any time, generally accepted accounting
       principles in effect at such time in (a) the United States of America,
       (b) if the Customer has theretofore customarily prepared its financial
       statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in
       the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom, or (c) such other country as AEF
       and the Customer may agree, in each case referred to in the foregoing
       clauses (a), (b) and (c) consistently applied.

       "SUBJECT COLLATERAL" has the meaning specified in Section 9.04.

       "SUBMISSION" has the meaning specified in Section 9.01(b)(i).

       "SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS" means Indebtedness of the Customer (a) that
       does not constitute a Contingent Obligation of any Subsidiary of the
       Customer, (b) that is subordinated to the prior payment of the principal
       of and interest on the Loans, all Break Funding Costs and all fees and
       other amounts payable by the Customer hereunder and under the other Loan
       Documents (the "SENIOR AMOUNTS"), and (c) upon terms providing that,
       until payment in full of the Senior Amounts and the termination of the
       Commitments, (i) the holders of such indebtedness (and any agent or
       trustee acting on their behalf) may not exercise or enforce any rights or
       remedies against the Customer in respect of such Indebtedness and (ii)
       the holders of such indebtedness (and any agent or trustee acting on
       their behalf) may not file or join in any application, complaint or
       petition to cause the Customer or any of its assets or revenues to become
       the subject of any Insolvency Proceeding, and upon other terms and
       conditions satisfactory to AEF in form and substance.

       "SUBSIDIARY" of a Person means any corporation, association, partnership,
       joint venture or other business entity of which more than fifty percent
       (50%) of the voting securities or other ownership interests is, or other
       equity interests are, owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such
       Person, or one or more of the Subsidiaries of such Person, or a
       combination thereof.

       "TAXES" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a).

       "TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPROVAL" means an order, instrument or approval of
       any applicable Telecommunications Authority granting the Customer
       authority to construct, launch, operate and maintain each of the
       Satellite, the TTC&M Facilities and the Project in general, including
       national and local telecommunications licenses and compliance with ITU
       procedures and requirements.

       "TELECOMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY" means, with respect to national and local
       telecommunications authorities, the Federal Communications Commission, or
       any successor thereto, and, with respect to any international
       telecommunications authority, the ITU, including the RCB.


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       "TEST DATE" means a Measuring Date or a date on which (a) the Customer
       takes an action referred to in Section 7.08, (b) any member of the
       Customer Group creates, incurs, assumes or otherwise becomes directly or
       indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness or (c) any member of
       the Customer Group makes a Restricted Payment.

       "TOTAL ADVANCE RATE" means the Total Senior Debt Commitment expressed as
       a percentage of the lesser of (a) the Equipment Cost and (b) the Fair
       Market Value of the Collateral as set forth in the Appraisal.

       "TOTAL CASH FLOW" means, for any period, for the Customer Group the
       excess (if greater than zero (0)) of (a) the sum of (i) EBITDA for such
       period and (ii) the decrease, if any, in Non-Cash Working Capital during
       such period, over (b) the sum of (i) income taxes paid in cash during
       such period and (ii) the increase, if any, in Non-Cash Working Capital
       during such period.

       "TOTAL DEBT TO CAPITALIZATION" means, the sum for the Customer Group on
       the last day of the Relevant Period, determined without duplication in
       accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, of (a) the
       aggregate amount of all Indebtedness (other than Contingent Obligations)
       PLUS (b) the aggregate amount of all Disqualified Capital Stock
       (excluding, for purposes of this definition, any portion thereof that has
       been irrevocably and unconditionally defeased by the deposit of cash or
       securities with the holder or holders, or an agent or trustee for the
       holder or holders, of such Disqualified Capital Stock in accordance with
       the instrument governing the terms and conditions of such Disqualified
       Capital Stock), such sum to be expressed as a percentage of the sum on
       such date for the Customer Group of (i) the aggregate amount of Funded
       Debt (other than Contingent Obligations) PLUS (ii) the aggregate amount
       of all Disqualified Capital Stock (excluding, for purposes of this
       definition, any portion thereof that has been irrevocably and
       unconditionally defeased by the deposit of cash or securities with the
       holder or holders, or an agent or trustee for the holder or holders, of
       such Disqualified Capital Stock in accordance with the instrument
       governing the terms and conditions of such Disqualified Capital Stock)
       PLUS (iii) Consolidated Net Worth.

       "TOTAL FAILURE" has the meaning ascribed to that term or a term
       substantially similar to such term in the launch and initial operations
       insurance the Customer is required to obtain pursuant to Section 6.06(b)
       or in the in-orbit insurance the Customer is required to obtain pursuant
       to Section 6.06(b), whichever is then in effect.

       "TOTAL INTEREST" shall mean, for any period, the sum (without
       duplication), for the Customer Group, determined in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, of the following: (a) all
       interest in respect of Indebtedness accrued or capitalized during such
       period (whether or not actually paid during such period) PLUS (b) the net
       amounts payable (or MINUS the net amounts receivable) under Rate
       Contracts relating to interest rates accrued during such period (whether
       or not actually paid or received during such period).


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       "TOTAL SENIOR DEBT COMMITMENT" means, at any time, the aggregate of
       commitments under this Agreement and the Project Financing Agreements.

       "TOTAL SENIOR DEBT OUTSTANDING" means, at any time, the aggregate of
       amounts outstanding under this Agreement and the Project Financing
       Agreements.

       "TRANCHE A COMMITMENT" means the obligation of AEF to make Loans in an
       aggregate principal amount not to exceed the Tranche A Commitment Amount.

       "TRANCHE A COMMITMENT AMOUNT" means an amount equal to the lesser of (a)
       the sum of (i) sixty percent (60%) of the Launch Costs and (ii) the
       aggregate amount of Finance Costs capitalized hereunder and (b) sixty
       million Dollars ($60,000,000).

       "TRANCHE A LOAN" means any amount advanced by AEF pursuant to Section
       2.01(a).


       "TRANCHE A OUTSTANDINGS" means the aggregate Tranche A Loans to the
       Customer outstanding at any time (including Tranche A Loans the proceeds
       of which have been applied to the payment of Finance Costs), PLUS accrued
       and unpaid interest thereon as provided in Section 2.07(a).

       "TRANCHE A PERIOD" means the period commencing on the Closing Date and
       ending on April 12, 2002.

       "TRANCHE A TERM" means, subject to the terms and conditions of Sections
       2.04 and 2.05(b), the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on
       the earlier of the Conversion Date or the last day of the Tranche A
       Period.

       "TRANCHE B ADVANCE RATE" means sixty percent (60%) of Launch Costs.

       "TRANCHE B AMORTIZATION DATE" means the date that is six (6) months after
       the In-Orbit Commissioning Date.

       "TRANCHE B CONDITIONS PRECEDENT" means the conditions set forth in
       Section 4.03.

       "TRANCHE B LOAN" means the Tranche A Loans converted by AEF pursuant to
       Section 2.01(b) and outstanding at any time.

       "TRANCHE B PRINCIPAL PAYMENT DATE" means the Tranche B Amortization Date,
       the last day of each three (3) month or six (6) month period thereafter,
       as set forth in the Conversion Commitment Letter, until the Maturity
       Date, and the Maturity Date.

       "TRANCHE B REQUIRED INSTALLMENT AMOUNT" means the amount of each of the
       repayment installments of principal of the Tranche B Loan, as determined
       by AEF on the Conversion Commitment Date and as set forth in the
       Conversion Commitment Letter, each such installment being equal to the
       percentage value of the Tranche B Loan as set forth in the Conversion
       Commitment Letter.

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       "TRANCHE B TERM" means, subject to the terms and conditions of Sections
       2.04 and 2.05(b), the period commencing on the Conversion Date and ending
       on the Maturity Date, such period not to exceed the Maximum Tranche B
       Term.

       "TRANSPONDER LEASE AGREEMENTS" means all agreements entered into by the
       Customer for the lease of transponders or use of communications capacity
       on the Satellite, except for such agreements (a) having a term of less
       than one (1) year or an aggregate lease value of less than five hundred
       thousand Dollars ($500,000) or (b) with Affiliates of the Customer that
       are primarily intended to guarantee unconditionally the Customer's
       performance of its obligations under the Project Financing where (i) such
       agreements (A) are subject and subordinate to the rights of AEF, the
       Lenders and the Security Agent, on terms and conditions satisfactory to
       them, (B) contain no rights of quiet enjoyment with respect thereto
       (which for purposes of this definition shall mean that, notwithstanding
       the lessee's continued compliance with its obligations under such
       agreement, no assignee having a Lien on such agreement shall be bound to
       retain such lessee as a lessee thereunder and shall be free to terminate
       such agreement despite such continued compliance by such lessee) and (C)
       are subject to termination by AEF or the Lenders upon the exercise of
       remedies pursuant to Section 8.02 and (ii) such agreements are in the
       nature of contingent agreements for the lease of transponders or use of
       communications capacity on the Satellite.

       "TTC&M CONTRACT" means that certain agreement, or those certain
       agreements,to be entered into between the TTC&M Provider and the TTC&M
       Party, and any attachments related thereto, relating to the construction
       and supply of certain antenna and tracking, telemetry, control and
       monitoring equipment relating to the Satellite, together with the
       servicing and operation thereof, which agreement or agreements (as the
       case may be) shall be in form and substance satisfactory to AEF as
       determined on the Conversion Commitment Date.

       "TTC&M FACILITIES" means the facilities and other ground equipment
       necessary for the tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of the
       Satellite.

       "TTC&M MORTGAGE" means, if the TTC&M Facilities constitute Collateral,
       that certain Mortgage to be granted by the Customer in favor of the
       Security Agent over the TTC&M Facilities and the real property on which
       such facilities are located, in form and substance satisfactory to AEF,
       and to the extent available under applicable law.

       "TTC&M PARTY" means the party (other than the TTC&M Provider) to the
       TTC&M Contract which may be the Customer or any Affiliate thereof
       provided, if such party is an Affiliate of the Customer, the Customer
       shall have unconditionally guaranteed the performance by such Affiliate
       of its obligations pursuant to the TTC&M Contract on terms satisfactory
       to AEF as determined on the Conversion Commitment Date.

       "TTC&M PROVIDER" means the manufacturer and supplier of the TTC&M
       Facilities that is a party to the TTC&M Contract.

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       "UNRESTRICTED EXCESS CASH FLOW" means, at any time, Excess Cash Flow at
       such time LESS the amount of Excess Cash Flow required to be applied to
       the prepayment of the Tranche B Loan pursuant to Section 11.05 or 13.04,
       as the case may be.

       "UPFRONT FEE" means the fee payable by the Customer to AEF on the Closing
       Date calculated as a percentage of the Tranche A Commitment Amount as set
       forth in the Fee Letter.

1.012  OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS

             (a) Unless otherwise specified herein or therein, all capitalized
                 terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
                 when used in any certificate or other document made or
                 delivered pursuant hereto.

             (b) Unless otherwise specified herein, all accounting
                 determinations hereunder and all computations utilized by the
                 Customer in complying with the covenants contained herein shall
                 be made, all accounting terms used herein shall be interpreted,
                 and all financial statements required to be delivered hereunder
                 shall be prepared, in accordance with Generally Accepted
                 Accounting Principles (except for departures therefrom approved
                 by AEF).

             (c) The words "hereof", "herein" and "hereunder" and words of
                 similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this
                 Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of
                 this Agreement, and section, schedule and exhibit references
                 are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The meaning
                 of defined terms shall be equally applicable to the singular
                 and plural forms of the defined terms. The term "including" and
                 "to include" are not limiting and mean "including without
                 limitation" and "to include without limitation" respectively.

             (d) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to
                 a later specified date, the word "from" means "from and
                 including", the words "to" and "until" each mean "to but
                 excluding" and the word "through" means "to and including".

             (e) References to agreements and other contractual instruments
                 shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments and other
                 modifications thereto, but only to the extent such amendments
                 and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of any
                 Loan Document. Unless otherwise stated, any reference to a
                 Person shall include its successors and permitted assigns.

             (f) References to statutes or regulations are to be construed as
                 including all statutory and regulatory provisions
                 consolidating, amending or replacing the statute or regulation.

             (g) Matters disclosed on any schedule to this Agreement shall be
                 deemed disclosed for all purposes of this Agreement.

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                           SECTION 2. LOAN PROVISIONS

1.021  AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS

       (a) TRANCHE A LOANS. AEF agrees, upon the terms and subject to the
           conditions set forth herein, to make, from time to time during the
           Tranche A Term, one or more Tranche A Loans to the Customer in an
           aggregate principal amount (i) not to exceed the Tranche A Commitment
           Amount at any time prior to the Conversion Commitment Date and (ii)
           not to exceed the Conversion Commitment Amount on and after the
           Conversion Commitment Date. The Tranche A Loans shall be made to fund
           scheduled, pre-launch progress payments due and payable under the
           Launch Services Agreement (other than the initial down payment amount
           referred to in Section 4.01(c)) and Finance Costs, subject to and as
           set forth in the Fee Letter.

       (b) TRANCHE B LOAN. AEF agrees, upon the terms and subject to the
           conditions set forth herein and in the Conversion Commitment Letter,
           to convert (herein referred to as "CONVERSION") Tranche A Loans (in
           an aggregate amount not exceeding the Conversion Commitment Amount)
           into the Tranche B Loan by furnishing a Notice of Conversion to the
           Customer on or after the date of Launch (or Reflight, as the case may
           be), PROVIDED that (i) the Satellite is not destroyed or lost during
           the period extending from the instant when the Launch (or Reflight,
           as the case may be) occurs and the instant when the Satellite has
           separated from the Launch Vehicle and (ii) the Satellite does
           separate from the Launch Vehicle. Subject to Section 2.04, the
           Conversion shall be effective for the period commencing on the date
           of Launch (or Reflight, as the case may be) and terminating on the
           Maturity Date. The Tranche B Loan to the extent that it is repaid or
           prepaid may not be reborrowed.

       (c) COMMITMENTS. The Tranche A Commitment shall be automatically reduced
           to the Conversion Commitment Amount on the Conversion Commitment Date
           and shall be automatically reduced to zero on the Conversion Date. If
           the Tranche A Outstandings of the Customer are not converted to a
           Tranche B Loan, the Conversion Commitment shall be automatically
           reduced to zero on the earlier of the date of Launch or the last day
           of the Tranche A Period. The Tranche A Commitment and the Conversion
           Commitment, once terminated or reduced pursuant to this Section
           2.01(c), may not be reinstated or increased, except that the Tranche
           A Commitment may be reinstated in an amount equal to the Conversion
           Commitment Amount in the event of a Launch Failure as described in
           Section 2.04, PROVIDED that no new Tranche A Loans shall be made
           after such Launch Failure other than for the purposes of paying
           Finance Costs.

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       (a) Each Tranche A Loan shall be made upon the Customer's irrevocable
           Notice of Drawdown received by AEF prior to 11:00 a.m. (Paris time)
           no earlier than nine (9) Business Days and no later than seven (7)
           Business Days prior to the requested date for the making of such Loan
           (provided that no Notice of Drawdown shall be required in connection
           with a Tranche A Loan the proceeds of which will be used entirely to
           capitalize interest as permitted hereby). Each such notice shall
           specify (i) the amount of such Loan, which shall be not less than the
           lesser of (A) one million Dollars ($1,000,000), (B) the amount of the
           final scheduled pre-launch progress payment due and payable by the
           LSA Party pursuant to the Launch Services Agreement with respect to
           the Satellite and (C) the amount of any Finance Costs to be
           capitalized at the time of the making of such Loan and shall not
           exceed the maximum amount of the next scheduled, pre-launch progress
           payment due and payable by the LSA Party pursuant to the Launch
           Services Agreement with respect to the Satellite plus the amount of
           any Finance Costs to be capitalized at the time of the making of such
           Loan, (ii) the requested date for the making of such Loan, which
           shall be a Business Day and (iii) whether such Loan shall be made for
           the purpose of paying any amount of Finance Costs as provided in
           Section 2.07(d).

       (b) Each Notice of Drawdown issued during the Tranche A Term shall be
           deemed a certification (as of the date stated thereon and delivery
           thereof) by the Customer that (i) the representations and warranties
           made by the Customer contained in Section 5 and any other Loan
           Document shall be true and correct on and as of the date of the
           making of such Loan with the same effect as if made on and updated as
           of such date, (except as to representations and warranties expressly
           stated to be made only at or as of a specified time or times), (ii)
           each of the conditions required to be complied with on the Closing
           Date as set forth in Section 4.01 have been satisfied as of the
           Closing Date and remain so satisfied, and (iii) no Default or Event
           of Default exists as of the date thereof or shall exist as of the
           date of the making of such Loan or would result from the making of
           such Loan.

       (c) Unless any applicable condition specified in Section 4 has not been
           satisfied, the proceeds of all such Tranche A Loans shall be made
           available by AEF on the requested borrowing date (i) as provided in
           Section 2.07(d), in the case of application to the payment of any
           capitalized interest, or (ii) by deposit of such amounts in Dollars
           into the AE Account.

1.023  PROCEDURE FOR CONVERSION TO A TRANCHE B LOAN

       (a) CONVERSION PROCESS. Conversion of the Tranche A Loans to a Tranche B
           Loan shall take place subject to and in accordance with the terms and
           conditions set forth in Section 9.02.

       (b) CONVERSION. If (i) in accordance with Section 9.02 AEF determines, on
           the dates set forth in said Section, that the conditions to
           Conversion set forth and

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           referred to therein (including both the conditions required to be
           satisfied on the date of Launch (or Reflight, as the case may be) and
           the conditions required to be satisfied prior to such date) have been
           satisfied at the respective times they are required by said Section
           to be so satisfied, and (ii) such other determinations as may be
           required pursuant to Section 9.03 have been made, the Tranche A Loans
           shall convert to a Tranche B Loan upon the delivery of a Notice of
           Conversion in the manner described in Section 2.01(b) above on the
           Conversion Date. Upon Conversion or Reconversion, as the case may be,
           and for the duration of the Tranche B Term, the additional terms set
           forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3, as may be applicable to the Customer in
           relation to the designation by AEF of the Customer into a Customer
           Category, shall apply.

       (c) NON-CONVERSION. If on the Conversion Commitment Date AEF determines
           that the Customer has not satisfied all applicable Conversion
           Conditions and Tranche B Conditions Precedent, the Tranche A
           Outstandings shall not convert to a Tranche B Loan and shall become
           due and payable by the Customer in accordance with Section 2.05(b).

       (d) TRANCHE A EXTENSION. If, (i) prior to the delivery by AEF to the
           Customer of a Notice of Conversion, a Launch Failure is determined to
           have occurred, and (ii) the Customer has otherwise satisfied the
           Conversion Conditions, the Tranche B Conditions Precedent and all
           other conditions to Conversion in this Agreement, the Tranche A Loans
           shall continue on the terms and conditions hereof applicable to
           Tranche A Loans, and shall not be Converted to the Tranche B Loan,
           and the Tranche A Term shall not be terminated by reason of such
           Launch Failure, PROVIDED that no new Tranche A Loans shall be made
           other than Loans for the purposes of paying Finance Costs.

1.024  DECONVERSION AND RECONVERSION

       (a) DECONVERSION. In the event that the LSA Party is entitled to a
           Reflight under the Launch Services Agreement due to the occurrence of
           a Launch Failure that has been recognized in accordance with the
           Launch Services Agreement after Conversion has occurred, the Tranche
           B Loan shall be reclassified as a Tranche A Loan ("DECONVERSION"). On
           any such Deconversion, all terms and conditions hereof that apply to
           Tranche A Loans (including, without limitation, the Applicable Margin
           (which shall be equal to the interest rate margin applicable to the
           Tranche A Term as described in the Fee Letter)) shall apply to such
           Tranche A Loan, and the Tranche A Term shall be reinstated, until the
           earlier of (i) the date of mandatory prepayment, as provided in
           Section 2.05(b) and (ii) Reconversion, PROVIDED that no subsequent
           Deconversion shall occur in the event any Reflight results in a
           Launch Failure that is recognized after a Reconversion. A Total
           Failure or Constructive Total Failure for which the LSA Party is not
           entitled to a Reflight shall not result in Deconversion or
           Reconversion, but shall instead cause a mandatory prepayment, as
           provided in Section 2.05(b).


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       (b) RECONVERSION. The subsequent Conversion to a Tranche B Loan of any
           Tranche A Loan that has been previously reclassified pursuant to a
           Deconversion ("RECONVERSION") must be effected no later than two (2)
           years after the date of initial Launch. Reconversion of any Loan
           shall occur pursuant to the terms of Sections 2.03 and 9.02. Any
           Tranche A Outstandings related to a Launch Failure that have not
           reconverted to a Tranche B Loan within two (2) years from the date of
           such Launch shall become due and payable by the Customer to AEF in
           accordance with Section 2.05(b).

1.025  PREPAYMENTS

       (a) VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENTS. Subject to Section 3.03, the Customer may, at
           any time, upon at least ten (10) Business Days prior irrevocable
           written notice to AEF, prepay Loans, in whole or in part, in amounts
           of at least the lesser of (i) three million Dollars ($3,000,000) or
           any whole number multiple of one million Dollars ($1,000,000) in
           excess thereof and (ii) the amount of the Loans outstanding at such
           time, PROVIDED that interest on the amount of such prepayment,
           accrued to the date of prepayment, together with any Break Funding
           Costs and any unpaid fees and other amounts due and payable under
           this Agreement shall be paid in full on the date of prepayment. Each
           such notice of prepayment shall specify the date and amount of such
           prepayment and shall not thereafter be revocable by the Customer. Any
           prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to
           principal outstanding in the inverse order of maturity of the
           installments of principal.

       (b) MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS.

           (i)   If:

                 (A) this Agreement is terminated according to the terms hereof,
                     or

                 (B) the Launch Services Agreement is terminated according to
                     the terms thereof, or

                 (C) the Multiparty Agreement is terminated according to the
                     terms thereof, or

                 (D) following a Launch Failure, the LSA Party does not request
                     a Reflight within the Request Period and in any event on or
                     before the date falling one hundred and eighty (180) days
                     after the original date of Launch, or

                 (E) following a Launch Failure, a Reflight is not accomplished
                     within two (2) years following the original date of Launch,
                     or

                 (F) an initial Launch has not occurred by the last day of the
                     Tranche A Period, or

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                 (G) a Reflight results in a Launch Failure, or

                 (H) the In-Orbit Commissioning Date shall not have occurred on
                     or prior to the date occurring eight (8) months after
                     Launch, or

                 (I) any ECA Country Risk Coverage shall cease to be in full
                     force and effect,

                 then (1) the Customer shall promptly notify AEF of such event,
                 (2) the Customer shall prepay, without penalty, no later than
                 five (5) Business Days after the occurrence of the event giving
                 rise to such prepayment, the Loans in full, together with
                 interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment, any Break
                 Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts due and payable
                 under this Agreement and (3) if not earlier terminated, the
                 Commitments shall terminate on the date of such prepayment.

      (ii) If the Customer shall, at any time on or after the date of Launch,
           suffer an Event of Loss (excluding, subject to Section 2.05(b)(iv), a
           Partial Failure) of the Satellite for which the LSA Party shall not
           be entitled to a Reflight, then, upon the earlier to occur of (A) the
           date of receipt of insurance proceeds (if applicable), (B) the date
           falling sixty (60) days after the agreement of loss, if any, by the
           applicable provider(s) of insurance as required by Section 6.06 with
           respect to such Event of Loss and (C) the date falling two hundred
           and ten (210) days after the occurrence of such Event of Loss, the
           Customer shall prepay, without penalty, the Loans in full, together
           with interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment, any Break
           Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts due and payable under
           this Agreement.

     (iii) If, on the Conversion Commitment Date (unless otherwise secured
           pursuant to Section 9.02(e)(iii)) or the Conversion Date, the Tranche
           A Outstandings exceed the Conversion Commitment Amount, then the
           Customer shall immediately prepay the amount by which the Tranche A
           Outstandings exceed the Conversion Commitment Amount, together with
           interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment and any Break
           Funding Costs, or take such other action with respect to such excess
           as is permitted by Section 9.02(e).

      (iv) If the Customer shall, at any time on or after the date of Launch,
           suffer a Partial Failure of the Satellite, then (A) if the Customer
           shall have been determined to be a Category 1A Customer or a Category
           1B Customer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, the Customer
           shall not be required to prepay, as a result of the occurrence of
           such Partial Failure, any portion of the Loans or any other amounts
           outstanding under this Agreement and (B) if the Customer shall have
           been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer
           or a Category 3 Customer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement,
           upon the earlier to occur of (1) the date of receipt of insurance
           proceeds with respect to such Partial Failure, (2) the date falling
           sixty (60) days after

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           the agreement of loss, if any, by the provider(s) of insurance as
           required by Section 6.06 with respect to such Partial Failure and (3)
           the date falling two hundred and ten (210) days after the occurrence
           of such Partial Failure the Customer shall prepay a portion of the
           Loans equal to (x) the amount of the proceeds of insurance received
           or receivable for such Partial Failure together with interest thereon
           accrued to the date of such prepayment and any Break Funding Costs
           multiplied by (y) the fraction the numerator of which is the
           aggregate principal amount of the Loans then outstanding and the
           denominator of which is the aggregate principal amount of all
           Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Satellite; PROVIDED that if, at
           any time, insurance proceeds received or receivable with respect to a
           Partial Failure and not required to be prepaid as provided above, are
           required to be prepaid with respect to any Project Financing, then
           the Customer shall be required to prepay a pro rata portion of the
           Loans outstanding under this Agreement.


       (v) If, on the Conversion Commitment Date or on the Conversion Date, AEF
           determines in its discretion that the Customer has not satisfied the
           applicable Conversion Conditions and the Tranche B Conditions
           Precedent, then (x) the Customer shall prepay, without penalty, not
           later than the date falling five (5) Business Days after notice by
           AEF to the Customer of such determination, the Loans in full,
           together with interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment, any
           Break Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts due and payable
           under this Agreement and (y) the Tranche A Commitments and the
           Tranche A Term shall terminate on the date of such notice.

      (vi) If, for AEF or any Lender, a country in which the Customer is
           Domiciled or Conducting Business becomes a Prohibited Country or the
           Customer is designated a Prohibited Person, then (x) the Customer
           shall immediately prepay, without penalty, the Loans in full,
           together with interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment, any
           Break Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts due and payable
           under this Agreement and (y) if not earlier terminated the Tranche A
           Commitment and the Tranche A Term shall terminate on the date of such
           prepayment.

     (vii) If, at any time, the aggregate amount of Tranche A Outstandings
           exceeds the Tranche A Commitment Amount at such time, the Customer
           shall prepay, without penalty, not later than the date that is five
           (5) Business Days after the date that the Tranche A Outstandings
           first exceed the Tranche A Commitment Amount such excess amount
           together with interest thereon accrued to the date of prepayment and
           any Break Funding Costs.


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       (viii) If the Customer shall, at any time, prepay, in whole or in part,
              voluntarily or mandatorily, any Project Loans, then (A) the
              Customer shall promptly notify AEF of such prepayment within five
              (5) Business Days of such prepayment, and (B) the Customer shall
              immediately prepay a portion of the Loans proportionally equal to
              the portion of the total Project Loans that were prepaid,
              together with interest thereon accrued to the date of such
              prepayment and any Break Funding Costs.

       (c) NO REBORROWINGS. Loans that are prepaid may not be reborrowed.

1.026  REPAYMENT. Commencing on the Tranche B Amortization Date, the Customer
       shall repay to AEF the outstanding principal amount of the Tranche B Loan
       in installments on each Tranche B Principal Payment Date in an amount
       equal to the Tranche B Required Installment Amount. Any remaining balance
       of the Tranche B Loan shall be due and payable in full on the Maturity
       Date.

1.027  INTEREST

       (a) RATE. Subject to Section 2.07(c), each Loan shall bear interest for
           each Interest Period therefor on the outstanding principal amount
           thereof from the date when made until it becomes due at a rate per
           annum equal to the sum of the Interest Basis for such Interest Period
           and the Applicable Margin at such time.

       (b) PAYMENT DATE. Accrued interest on each Loan shall, subject to Section
           2.07(d), be payable in arrears on the last day of each Interest
           Period and on the date referred to in the immediately following
           sentence (each such date an "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE"). Interest shall
           also be payable on the date of any prepayment of Loans pursuant to
           Section 2.05 for all or the portion of the Loans so prepaid, as the
           case may be, and upon payment (including prepayment) in full thereof.

       (c) DEFAULT RATE.

           (i)   If any sum due and payable by the Customer hereunder is not
                 paid on the due date therefor in accordance with Section 2.10;
                 or if any sum due and payable by the Customer under any
                 judgment of any court in connection herewith is not paid on the
                 date of such judgment, the period beginning on such due date
                 or, as the case may be, the date of such judgment and ending on
                 the date upon which the obligation of the Customer to pay such
                 sum (the balance thereof for the time being unpaid being herein
                 referred to as an "unpaid sum") is discharged shall be divided
                 into successive periods, each of which (other than the first)
                 shall start on the last day of the preceding such period and
                 the duration of each of which shall (except as otherwise
                 provided in this Section 2.07) be one month or such shorter
                 period selected by AEF in good faith as being the likely period
                 of default.

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           (ii)  During each such period relating thereto as is mentioned in
                 Section 2.07(c)(i) above, the unpaid sum shall bear interest at
                 the rate per annum (the "DEFAULT RATE") that is the sum from
                 time to time of (A) two percent (2%); (B) the Interest Basis
                 for such sum for such period; and (C) the Applicable Margin at
                 such time.

       (d) CAPITALIZED INTEREST. Except as otherwise provided in this Section
           2.07(d), and subject to satisfaction of the applicable conditions to
           Loans set forth in Section 4.04, any interest due on Tranche A Loans
           prior to the Conversion Date shall be capitalized on the date such
           interest is due and payable by entry on the books of AEF of such
           amount as a Tranche A Loan to the Customer. Any such interest so
           capitalized shall constitute a Tranche A Loan to the Customer for
           such amount made on the date on which such interest shall have been
           otherwise due and payable. Pursuant to a written notice delivered to
           AEF not later than thirty (30) days prior to the date that any
           interest shall become due and payable, the Customer may elect to
           terminate the capitalization of interest under this Section 2.07(d),
           in which case no such capitalization of interest shall occur from and
           after the first day of the next succeeding Interest Period.

1.028  FEES. The Customer shall pay to AEF the Commitment Fee, the Upfront Fee,
       the Conversion Fee and the ECA Guaranty Fee on the terms and at the times
       set forth in the Fee Letter and as provided in Section 2.09, together
       with any other fees and other amounts payable thereunder and hereunder.

1.029  COMPUTATION OF INTEREST AND FEES

       (a) All computations of interest on Loans and the Commitment Fee shall be
           made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest
           and the Commitment Fee shall accrue during each period during which
           interest or such Commitment Fee are computed from the first day
           thereof to the last day thereof.

       (b) AEF shall, on the day that the Interest Basis is determined for any
           Interest Period, but in no event after the date of the commencement
           of such Interest Period, notify the Customer of the determination of
           such Interest Basis.

       (c) Each determination of an interest rate by AEF pursuant to any
           provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the
           Customer in the absence of manifest error or fraud.

2.10   PAYMENTS BY THE CUSTOMER

       (a) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Customer on
           account of principal, interest, fees and any other amounts under this
           Agreement shall be made without set-off or counterclaim and shall be
           made to AEF, in each case in Dollars and in immediately available
           funds no later than 10:00 a.m.

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           (New York time) on the date on which such payment shall become due to
           the Credit Lyonnais Luxembourg S.A. account at Credit Lyonnais New
           York, No. 0-100-682-000-100 (ref IFAP/TEIC/AEF/036123-44). The
           Customer shall direct the bank remitting any payments hereunder to
           deliver an irrevocable notice with respect to the remittance of funds
           no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the date on which such
           payment shall become due. Any payment which is received by AEF in
           said account later than 10:00 a.m. (New York time) shall be deemed to
           have been received on the next succeeding Business Day.

       (b) Subject to the provisions set forth in the definition of "INTEREST
           PERIOD", whenever any payment hereunder would otherwise be due on a
           day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the
           immediately preceding Business Day, and the computation of interest
           or fees shall be calculated accordingly.

2.11   SECURITY. All obligations of the Customer under this Agreement, all other
       Loan Documents and the Project Financing Agreements (if any) shall be
       secured by the Collateral as set forth in the Collateral Documents from
       and after the date of the execution and delivery of the Collateral
       Documents as described below, subject to the condition that neither AEF
       nor the Lenders shall be entitled to direct the Security Agent to
       exercise rights with respect thereto before the Conversion Date, whether
       or not the Project Lenders shall be entitled to exercise such rights. The
       Customer shall, on the earlier to occur of (a) if the Project Financing
       Agreements shall have been executed on or prior to the Closing Date, the
       Closing Date, (b) if the Project Financing Agreements shall have been
       executed during the period from the Closing Date to but not including the
       Conversion Commitment Date, the date of execution of the Project
       Financing Agreements, and (c) if the Project Financing Agreements shall
       not have been executed prior to the Conversion Commitment Date, the
       Conversion Commitment Date enter into:

       (i) the Collateral Documents, granting to the Security Agent a valid Lien
           on the Collateral having the perfection and priority required by
           Section 9.04 and otherwise in accordance with the terms hereof (and,
           as a condition of Conversion, AEF shall be satisfied (by receipt of
           legal opinions (which may be subject to qualifications and
           limitations that are customary in the jurisdiction where the
           respective counsel is located) and/or other evidence) that such grant
           is not void or subject to avoidance if the Customer becomes the
           subject of an Insolvency Proceeding); and

      (ii) the Intercreditor Agreement, providing for, in the event that there
           exists a Project Financing, the pari passu sharing of the Collateral
           on a pro rata basis as among AEF, the Lenders, the Project Lenders
           and the ECAs (to the extent of their interests), each such document
           being in form and substance acceptable to AEF, the Lenders, the
           applicable ECAs and the Project Lenders. The Customer hereby consents
           and agrees to the assignment and pledge of this Agreement and the
           Note by AEF on the Conversion Date to the Lenders and

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           shall execute all such acknowledgments, confirmations and other
           documents evidencing the same, as shall be reasonably requested by
           AEF.

2.12   NOTE. As additional evidence of the Customer's obligations to pay the
       principal of and interest on the Loans as provided herein, the Customer
       shall execute and deliver to AEF on the Conversion Date, a promissory
       note in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, dated the Conversion
       Date, payable to the order of AEF in a principal amount equal to the
       Conversion Amount and otherwise duly completed and executed on behalf of
       the Customer (such note being herein called a "NOTE").

2.13   ECA ENHANCEMENT.

       (a) APPLICABLE TERMS. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
           herein, if ECA Enhancement is procured with respect to the Customer,
           during the Tranche B Term and for so long as such ECA Enhancement
           remains in full force and effect, the Required Distress Recovery
           Value, maximum Total Advance Rate, maximum Tranche B Term and Average
           Life of the Tranche B Loan of the Customer shall be as set forth
           below for the Customer Category listed below corresponding to the
           following levels of ECA Enhancement procured:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                 ==================================================== 
                  ECA PERCENTAGE                 CUSTOMER CATEGORY       
                 ----------------------------------------------------
<S>                                              <C>
                 greater than or equal to 85%           1A
                 greater than or equal to 70%           1B
                 greater than or equal to 50%           1C
                 ====================================================
</TABLE>

           If ECA Enhancement is procured with respect to the Customer, the
           Applicable Margin during the Tranche B Term shall be as set forth in
           ANNEX 1.

       (b) TERMINATION. If any ECA Enhancement procured with respect to the
           Customer is terminated or otherwise ceases to be in full force and
           effect, then: (i) the Required Distress Recovery Value, maximum Total
           Advance Rate, maximum Tranche B Term and Average Life of the Tranche
           B Loan and the Applicable Margin during the Tranche B Term of the
           Customer shall be automatically re-adjusted, as from the date of such
           termination or ineffectiveness, such readjustment shall result from
           AEF's determination of the repayment profile that would have been in
           effect from the Conversion Date if the Customer had not benefitted
           from ECA Enhancement (using information contained in the original
           Appraisal furnished during the Conversion process and the Required
           Distress Recovery Value, maximum Total Advance Rate, maximum Tranche
           B Term and Average Life of the Tranche B Loan that would have
           applied) (the "REVISED PROFILE"), and the Customer shall pay or
           prepay the difference between the Tranche B Outstandings then
           outstanding and the Tranche B Outstandings that would have been
           outstanding on such date under the Revised Profile, pursuant to the
           following clause (ii); and (ii) the

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           Customer shall pay or prepay, without penalty, no later than fifteen
           (15) Business Days after the occurrence of the event giving rise to
           such termination or ineffectiveness, the amount referred to in clause
           (i) above, as determined by AEF upon the adjustment of the Repayment
           Profile in connection with the automatic re-adjustment in clause (i)
           above, together with interest thereon accrued to the date of
           prepayment, any Break Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts
           due and payable under this Agreement. If the procurement of such ECA
           Enhancement was a condition to Conversion, the Customer shall pay or
           prepay, without penalty, no later than fifteen (15) Business Days
           after the occurrence of the event giving rise to such termination or
           ineffectiveness, the principal amount of the Tranche B Loan, together
           with interest thereon accrued to the date of such prepayment, any
           Break Funding Costs and any fees and other amounts due and payable
           under this Agreement.

2.14   ECA ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS. The Customer hereby agrees that, if
       any ECA providing ECA Country Risk Coverage or ECA Enhancement shall
       condition such coverage upon the imposition of additional terms or
       conditions binding on the Customer, the Customer shall comply with all
       such additional terms or conditions as if set forth fully herein, and if
       it does not so comply, any terms applicable pursuant to Section 2.13
       shall cease to apply.


                      SECTION 3. TAXES AND YIELD PROTECTION

1.031  TAXES

       (a) Except as required by law, any and all payments by the Customer to
           AEF shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or
           withholding for, any and all present or future taxes, levies,
           imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings whatsoever imposed,
           assessed, levied or collected by any jurisdiction or any political
           subdivision or taxing authority in any thereof, if applicable,
           together with interest thereon and penalties, fines and surcharges
           with respect thereto, if any, on or in respect of this Agreement, any
           Loan, any other Loan Document, the amounts made available to AEF by
           any Lender for the purpose of funding the Loan or the obligations of
           the Customer hereunder, and all liabilities with respect thereto,
           including, without limitation, any taxes, levies, imposts,
           deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities that are or would
           be deducted or withheld from any payments by the Customer as a direct
           or indirect result of any Lender making amounts available to AEF for
           the purpose of funding the Loan (all such taxes, levies, imposts,
           deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being herein
           referred to as "TAXES").

       (b) The Customer shall pay any present or future stamp or documentary
           taxes, charges or similar levies that arise from the execution,
           delivery, filing, recording, registration, notarization or other
           formalization or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this
           Agreement, any Loan, any other Loan

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           Document or the obligations of the Customer hereunder or thereunder
           (herein referred to as "OTHER TAXES").

       (c) Except as provided in Section 3.01(d), the Customer, from time to
           time on demand by AEF, shall make a payment to AEF equal to any of
           the following amounts that AEF may be obligated to pay any Lender
           providing funds to AEF for the purpose of funding the Loan, together
           with an additional amount equal to any taxes incurred by AEF as a
           result of the receipt or accrual of the payment made by the Customer
           pursuant to this Section 3.01(c) (including in such payment any such
           additional amount): any and all additional amounts that AEF may be
           obligated to pay, on a basis consistent with Section 3.01(d), to such
           Lender with respect to any taxes, levies, imposts, deductions,
           charges or withholdings (together with interest thereon and
           penalties, fines and surcharges with respect thereto) that are or
           would be deducted or withheld from payments made by AEF to such
           Lender with respect to the funds made available by such Lenders
           (herein referred to as "FUNDING-RELATED TAXES").

       (d) If the Customer shall be required by law to deduct or withhold any
           Taxes or Other Taxes ("COVERED TAXES") from or in respect of any sum
           payable hereunder to AEF or to any Lender then, subject to Section
           3.01(f): (i) the Customer shall make such deductions as are required
           by applicable law, (ii) the Customer shall pay the full amount
           deducted by the relevant taxation authority or other authority in
           accordance with applicable law and (iii) except as provided in
           Section 3.01(f), the sum payable shall be increased by such
           additional amounts as shall be necessary so that after making all
           required deductions or withholdings of Covered Taxes (including
           deductions or withholdings applicable to such additional amounts) AEF
           or such Lender, as the case may be, shall receive an amount equal to
           the sum that it would have received had no deduction or withholding
           of Covered Taxes been made. For the avoidance of doubt, the Customer
           shall be entitled to withhold or deduct Taxes or Other Taxes as
           required by law, in whole or in part, subject to the claim of an
           exemption or reduction by AEF or the relevant Lender, as the case may
           be, as contemplated by Section 3.01(f) and subject to the obligation
           to pay additional amounts in the case of Covered Taxes pursuant to
           clause (iii) of this Section 3.01(d). Within sixty (60) days after
           the date of any payment by the Customer of Taxes or Other Taxes the
           Customer shall furnish to AEF the original or a certified copy of a
           receipt evidencing payment thereof, or other evidence of payment
           satisfactory to AEF.

       (e) Without prejudice to the provisions of Section 3.01(c), if AEF or any
           Lender (whether on its own behalf or on behalf of another Person) is
           required, directly or indirectly, to make any payment, directly or
           indirectly, on account of Covered Taxes (other than (i) a tax imposed
           on the net income of its Lending Office by the jurisdiction in which
           it is incorporated or in which its Lending Office is located and (ii)
           Covered Taxes and Funding Related Taxes to the extent that the
           Customer is not required to make any payment thereof by reason of the
           last sentence of Section 3.01(f)) or any liability in respect of any

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           such payment is asserted, levied, imposed or assessed against it (or
           such other Person), the Customer shall, upon demand of AEF, promptly
           indemnify AEF or such Lender, as the case may be, against such
           payment or liability, together with any interest, penalties and
           expenses payable or incurred in connection therewith.

       (f) If any exemption from, or reduction in the rate of any Covered Tax is
           reasonably available to AEF or a Lender, AEF shall deliver, and shall
           request such Lender to use reasonable efforts to deliver, to the
           Customer such form or forms as the Customer may reasonably identify
           to AEF as being required under applicable law as a condition to
           exemption from, or reduction of, such Covered Tax. The Customer shall
           not withhold or deduct, or shall reduce the rate of withholding or
           deduction of, any Taxes or Other Taxes with respect to which AEF or a
           Lender, as the case may be, provides such duly executed form or forms
           together with such other evidence of the eligibility of AEF or such
           Lender for such exemption or reduction as the Customer may reasonably
           require as may be required under applicable law as a condition to
           exemption from, or reduction of, the withholding of such Taxes or
           Other Taxes. AEF agrees to promptly notify the Customer of any change
           in circumstances of which it reasonably should be aware that would
           modify or render invalid any claimed exemption or reduction of any
           Tax or Other Tax. The Customer shall not be required to pay amounts
           pursuant to Section 3.01(e) or to pay any additional amounts pursuant
           to clause (iii) of Section 3.01(d) if the Covered Taxes or Funding
           Related Taxes, as the case may be, are imposed as a result of (A) a
           failure of AEF to comply with its obligations under this Section
           3.01(f) or (B) a failure of any Lender providing funds to AEF for
           purposes of making the Loans to comply with any obligations to AEF
           that are analogous to the obligations of AEF contained in this
           Section 3.01(f) or (C) a relocation by any Lender of its Lending
           Office to a jurisdiction other than (x) the jurisdiction in which
           such Lending Office was located at the time such Loan was made or (y)
           a jurisdiction listed on ANNEX 4, PROVIDED that, if any Lender has
           relocated its Lending Office to another jurisdiction and is not
           located in a jurisdiction listed on ANNEX 4, the amount of the
           Covered Taxes or Funding Related Taxes, as the case may be, for
           purposes of clause (iii) of Section 3.01(d), shall be deemed equal to
           the Taxes, if any, that would have constituted Covered Taxes or
           Funding Related Taxes, as the case may be, had such Lender not
           relocated its Lending Office.

       (g) If AEF or any Lender providing funds to AEF to make Loans hereunder
           shall determine in its sole discretion that either AEF or such Lender
           has actually realized a tax benefit (whether by way of deduction,
           credit, allocation or apportionment of income or otherwise), as a
           result of any Taxes, Other Taxes or Funding-Related Taxes paid or
           indemnified by the Customer pursuant to this Section 3.01, AEF or
           such Lender, as the case may be, shall so advise the Customer and pay
           to the Customer an amount which AEF or such Lender, as the case may
           be, shall determine in its sole discretion is equal to the amount of
           such tax benefit.

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       (h) If the Customer is required to pay additional amounts to AEF pursuant
           to Section 3.01(d), then AEF may, but shall not have any obligation
           to, assign the Loans and the Commitments and all other rights and
           obligations of AEF hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to
           any Eligible Assignee. If the Customer is required to pay any amounts
           to AEF pursuant to Section 3.01(d) as Funding-Related Taxes, then AEF
           may request that any Lender causing the imposition of such
           Funding-Related Taxes change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office.

       (i) The agreements and obligations of the Customer contained in this
           Section 3.01 shall survive the payment in full of all other
           obligations of the Customer hereunder.

1.032  INCREASED COSTS AND REDUCTION OF RETURN

       (a) If AEF or any Lender (each such Person a "RECOVERING PERSON") shall
           determine that, due to either (i) the introduction of or any change
           (including, without limitation, by way of imposition or increase of
           reserve requirements, capital adequacy, minimum capital or other
           requirements) in or in the interpretation or application of any
           applicable law or regulation by a Governmental Authority or any court
           having jurisdiction over such Recovering Person or by an authority
           with which such Recovering Person customarily complies or (ii) the
           introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation or
           application of any guideline or request from any central bank or
           other Governmental Authority (which, if not having the force of law,
           is generally complied with by banks in the relevant jurisdiction), in
           each case occurring after the date hereof, there shall be any
           increase in the cost to AEF of agreeing to make or making, funding or
           maintaining Loans or the cost to such Lender of agreeing to provide
           or providing funds to AEF to make, fund or maintain Loans hereunder,
           then, so long as the Loans hereunder are treated no less favorably
           than AEF's other similarly situated loans, the Customer shall be
           liable for, and shall from time to time, upon demand therefor by AEF
           pay to AEF for its own account or for the account of such Lender, as
           the case may be, additional amounts as are sufficient in the
           reasonable determination of the Recovering Person to compensate such
           Recovering Person for such increased costs to the extent such
           increased costs result from any of the foregoing in clause (i) or
           (ii) above; (A) provided, however, that in the case of an increase
           referred to above, AEF shall be entitled to make demand on the
           Customer in respect thereof and the Customer shall be obligated to
           pay AEF therefor only within ninety (90) days after the date of such
           change or, if earlier, the date AEF obtains actual knowledge of such
           interpretation or application; provided, further, that if AEF fails
           to give such notice within such ninety (90) day period, AEF shall,
           with respect to compensation payable pursuant to this Section
           3.02(a), be entitled to payment only for costs incurred from and
           after the date that is ninety (90) days prior to the date that AEF
           does give such notice; and (B) provided, however, that in the case of
           an increase referred to above resulting from the interpretation by a
           Governmental Authority affecting

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           any Lender, AEF shall be entitled to make demand on the Customer in
           respect thereof and the Customer shall be obligated to pay AEF
           therefor only within ninety (90) days after AEF is notified by the
           Lender affected by such interpretation; provided, further, that if
           AEF fails to give such notice within such ninety (90) day period, the
           Customer's obligation to pay AEF for the account of such Lender with
           respect to compensation payable to the Lender pursuant to this
           Section 3.02(a) shall accrue from and after the date that is ninety
           (90) days prior to the date that such Lender gives such notice to
           AEF.

       (b) If any Recovering Person shall determine that the introduction of any
           applicable law, rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital
           adequacy, or any change therein or any change in the interpretation
           by a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over such Recovering
           Person or administration thereof by any central bank or other
           Governmental Authority charged with the interpretation or
           administration thereof, or compliance by such Recovering Person (or,
           in respect of a Lender, its Lending Office) or any corporation
           controlling such Recovering Person, with any request, guideline or
           directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force
           of law) of any such central bank or other authority, whether
           implemented at the national level or otherwise, except by application
           of the Basle Accord as in effect on the date hereof, affects or would
           affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by
           AEF or such Lender (or its Lending Office) or any Person controlling
           such Recovering Person and determines that the amount of such capital
           is increased as a consequence of its obligation under this Agreement,
           then, upon demand of AEF (with a description thereof), the Customer
           shall immediately pay to AEF for its own account or for the account
           of such Recovering Person from time to time as specified by AEF,
           additional amounts sufficient in the reasonable opinion of the
           Recovering Person to compensate such Recovering Person for such
           increase; (A) provided, however, that in the case of an increase
           referred to above resulting from the interpretation by a Governmental
           Authority affecting AEF, AEF shall be entitled to make demand on the
           Customer in respect thereof and the Customer shall be obligated to
           pay AEF therefor only within ninety (90) days after the date of such
           change or, if earlier, the date AEF obtains actual knowledge of such
           interpretation; provided, further, that if AEF fails to give such
           notice within such ninety (90) day period, AEF shall, with respect to
           compensation payable pursuant to this Section 3.02(b), be entitled to
           payment only for costs incurred from and after the date that is
           ninety (90) days prior to the date that AEF does give such notice;
           and (B) provided, however, that in the case of an increase referred
           to above resulting from the interpretation by a Governmental
           Authority affecting any Lender, AEF shall be entitled to make demand
           on the Customer in respect thereof only within ninety (90) days after
           AEF is notified by the Lender affected by such interpretation;
           provided, further, that if AEF fails to give such notice within such
           ninety (90) day period, the Customer's obligation to pay AEF for the
           account of such Lender with respect to compensation payable to the
           Lender pursuant to this Section 3.02(b) shall accrue from and after
           the

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           date that is sixty (60) days prior to the date such Lender gives such
           notice to AEF.

       (c) The Customer shall not be required to pay any compensation payable
           pursuant to Section 3.02(a) or (b) above if such compensation is
           imposed as a result of a relocation by any Lender of its Lending
           Office to a jurisdiction other than (i) the jurisdiction in which
           such Lending Office was located at the time such Loan was made or
           (ii) a jurisdiction listed on ANNEX 4; and if such Lender has
           relocated its Lending Office to another jurisdiction that is not
           located in a jurisdiction listed on ANNEX 4, the amount of any
           compensation for purposes of Section 3.02(a) and (b) shall be deemed
           equal to the compensation, if any, that would have been payable had
           such Lender not relocated its Lending Office.

       (d) AEF shall give notice of anticipated costs payable under Section
           3.02(a) or (b) above upon obtaining actual knowledge thereof and
           shall use reasonable best efforts to cause the Lenders, to the extent
           practicable, to give the Customer notice of anticipated costs payable
           under Section 3.02(a) or (b) above upon obtaining actual knowledge
           thereof, PROVIDED that the failure to give such notice shall not
           affect the Customer's obligations hereunder in any respect. A
           certificate as to the amount of such increased costs (setting forth
           in reasonable detail, subject to any confidentiality requirements of
           AEF's or such Lender's policies applied in the same manner and to the
           same degree as to other information released to similarly situated
           Persons, and to applicable bank regulations) the event by reason of
           which AEF or such Lender claims such increase and the basis for the
           determination of the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the
           Customer by AEF, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes,
           absent manifest error or fraud.

       (e) If the Customer shall be required to pay any amount to AEF pursuant
           to this Section 3.02 based solely on the obligations of AEF under
           this Agreement, then AEF shall use reasonable efforts (consistent
           with legal and regulatory restrictions) to transfer its rights and
           obligations hereunder to an Affiliate of AEF so as to eliminate any
           such payment by the Customer that may thereafter accrue if such
           change, in the sole opinion of AEF, shall not otherwise adversely
           affect AEF.

       (f) AEF shall use reasonable efforts to seek to avoid or minimize,
           including by changing the jurisdiction of its Lending Office, any
           additional amounts the Customer may be required to pay to AEF
           pursuant to this Section 3.02, PROVIDED that this provision shall not
           obligate AEF to take any action that would, in its reasonable
           judgment, adversely affect AEF.

1.033  FUNDING LOSSES. The Customer agrees to reimburse AEF and to hold it
       harmless from any loss, cost or expense which AEF may sustain or incur,
       including any loss, cost or expense that AEF may sustain or incur in
       relation to the facility provided to AEF by the Lenders as a consequence
       of: (a) the failure of the Customer to make

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       any required payment or prepayment of principal of any Loan (including,
       without limitation, payments made after any acceleration thereof), (b)
       the failure of the Customer (including, without limitation, as a result
       of the failure of any condition precedent specified in Section 4 to be
       satisfied) to borrow a Loan after the Customer has given a Notice of
       Drawdown, (c) the failure of the Customer (including, without limitation,
       as a result of the failure of any condition precedent specified in
       Section 4 to be satisfied) to convert the Tranche A Loans to a Tranche B
       Loan on the scheduled Conversion Date, (d) the failure of the Customer to
       make any prepayment after the Customer has given a notice of prepayment
       in accordance with Section 2.05, (e) the prepayment or repayment of a
       Loan (including, without limitation, payments made after any acceleration
       thereof) on a day which is not the last day of the Interest Period with
       respect thereto, including any Break Funding Costs or (f) the failure of
       the Customer to make payment of interest on any Loan on the Interest
       Payment Date for such Loan, including, in each case, any Break Funding
       Costs. Any unpaid sum shall (for the purposes of this Section 3.03 or
       Section 3.02) accrue interest at the Default Rate as provided in Section
       2.07(c). This covenant shall survive the payment in full of all
       obligations of the Customer hereunder.

1.034  INABILITY TO DETERMINE RATES. If, in relation to any Loan and any
       Interest Period relating thereto, for any reason AEF determines that the
       Interest Basis for such Loan for such Interest Period cannot be
       determined at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Date for
       such Interest Period after taking into account clauses (b) and (c) of the
       definition of "INTEREST BASIS" in Section 1.01, then, notwithstanding the
       provisions of Section 2.07, AEF shall give notice of such fact to the
       Customer. Upon receipt of such notice, the Customer may revoke any Notice
       of Drawdown then submitted by it. If the Customer does not revoke such
       notice, AEF shall, in accordance with the terms hereof, make the Loans
       requested by the Customer in such notice. The duration of the Interest
       Period applicable to each Loan that commences after receipt by the
       Customer of such Notice of Drawdown shall be one month and the rate of
       interest applicable thereto from time to time during each such Interest
       Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of the Applicable
       Margin and the arithmetic mean (rounded upwards, if not already such a
       multiple, to the nearest whole multiple of one-sixteenth of one percent
       (1/16th of 1%)) of the rates notified by AEF to be the cost (expressed as
       a percentage rate per annum) to AEF of funding, from whatever source it
       may choose, such Loan during such Interest Period. Such interest rate
       shall apply to each Interest Period succeeding the first Interest Period
       to which it was applied unless and until AEF shall determine that the
       Interest Basis for such Loan can once again be determined and so notifies
       the Customer, whereupon interest on the affected Loans shall again be
       determined in accordance with Section 2.07(a), effective commencing on
       the first day of the Interest Period next succeeding the date of such
       notice.

1.035  ILLEGALITY. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, in the
       event that, after the date of this Agreement, it becomes unlawful for AEF
       to honor its obligation to make or maintain Loans hereunder, or AEF is
       notified by any Lender that it has become illegal for such Lender to
       honor its obligation to make or maintain loans to AEF, then AEF shall
       promptly notify the Customer thereof whereupon (a) AEF's

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       Commitments shall automatically be reduced to zero or suspended to the
       extent required by applicable law and (b) the Customer shall, on such
       date as AEF shall specify in such notice (which date shall not be earlier
       than the last Business Day before AEF's or such Lender's obligations
       shall become unlawful) prepay such Loans in full or the part thereof
       required by applicable law, together with all interest and other amounts
       owing by the Customer to AEF hereunder with respect to the portion
       prepaid, PROVIDED that before giving the notice referred to above, AEF
       will consult with the Customer for a period of not more than forty-five
       (45) days for the purpose of identifying, and shall take all reasonable
       actions available to AEF (including the assignment of AEF's rights and
       obligations hereunder to an Eligible Assignee) if such actions will avoid
       or mitigate the effect of such illegality and will not, in the sole
       opinion of AEF, be disadvantageous to AEF.


                         SECTION 4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

1.041  CONDITIONS TO INITIAL TRANCHE A LOAN. The obligation of AEF to make its
       initial Tranche A Loan hereunder is subject to the determination by AEF,
       in its discretion, that each of the following conditions has been
       satisfied:

       (a) CLOSING DOCUMENTS. AEF shall have received each of the following, in
           form and substance satisfactory to, and, in the case of the materials
           referred to in clauses (vii), (viii) and (ix), certified as a true
           copy as of the Closing Date in a manner satisfactory to, AEF:

           (i)   CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT. This Agreement, duly executed and
                 delivered by the Customer and AEF.

           (ii)  MULTIPARTY AGREEMENT. The Multiparty Agreement, duly executed
                 and delivered by the Customer, the LSA Party, AEF and AE.

           (iii) FEE LETTER. The Fee Letter, duly executed and delivered by the
                 Customer and AEF.

           (iv)  ACKNOWLEDGMENT. If applicable, any acknowledgment by an
                 Affiliate of the Customer, as referred to in Section 6.25.

           (v)   COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS. If the Collateral Documents shall be
                 required, pursuant to Section 2.11 of this Agreement, to have
                 been executed on or prior to the Closing Date, the Assignment
                 and Security Agreement, the TTC&M Mortgage, the Consents to
                 Assignment and all other Collateral Documents, duly executed
                 and delivered by the Customer and all other parties thereto.

           (vi)  INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. If the Intercreditor Agreement shall
                 be required, pursuant to Section 2.11 of this Agreement, to
                 have been executed on or prior to the Closing Date, the
                 Intercreditor Agreement,

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                 duly executed and delivered by AEF, the Security Agent, the
                 Lenders (or an agent acting on their behalf), the applicable
                 ECAs and the Project Agent.

           (vii) CONSTRUCTION AND PAYMENT SCHEDULE. A true, complete and correct
                 copy of the Construction and Payment Schedule.

          (viii) CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS; RESOLUTIONS; INCUMBENCY. A
                 Certificate of the secretary or other appropriate Responsible
                 Officer of the Customer certifying as a true copy:

                 (A) The constitutional documents of the Customer, as in effect
                     on the Closing Date;

                 (B) Copies of the resolutions of the board of directors (or
                     other Persons having similar functions) of the Customer
                     approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and
                     performance by the Customer of this Agreement and the other
                     Loan Documents to be executed and delivered by the Customer
                     as contemplated hereby and authorizing the borrowing of the
                     Loans, together with, as applicable, any agreements for the
                     lease of transponders or use of communications capacity on
                     the Satellite that constitute Collateral; and

                 (C) The names and true signatures of Responsible Officers of
                     the Customer authorized to execute, deliver and perform, as
                     applicable, this Agreement and all other Loan Documents to
                     be delivered by it hereunder, together with, if applicable,
                     any agreements for the lease of transponders or use of
                     communications capacity on the Satellite that constitute
                     Collateral.

           (ix)  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. The Base Financial Statements of the
                 Customer.

            (x)  PROCESS AGENT. A letter from CT Corporation System, accepting
                 its appointment as process agent in New York for the Customer.

           (xi)  LEGAL OPINIONS. An opinion of (A) Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
                 & Garrison, special New York counsel to the Customer, dated the
                 Closing Date and addressed to AEF, (B) Wiley, Rein & Fielding,
                 special Federal Communications Commission counsel to the
                 Customer, dated the Closing Date and addressed to AEF and (C)
                 such other opinions as requested by AEF, each in form and
                 substance acceptable to AEF.

           (xii) OTHER DOCUMENTS. Such other statements, certificates,
                 documents, information, approvals or opinions with respect to
                 the Project or

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                 matters referred to or contemplated by this Agreement or the
                 other Loan Documents as AEF may reasonably request.

       (b) PAYMENT OF FEES. All costs, accrued and unpaid fees and expenses
           hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents (including,
           without limitation, legal fees and expenses) to the extent then due
           and payable by the Customer, including, without limitation, any
           arising under or contemplated by Section 2.08, 3.01 or 10.04, shall
           have been paid in full or capitalized as permitted hereunder or
           arrangements satisfactory to AEF shall have been made to cause them
           to be paid in full concurrently with the disbursement of the proceeds
           of the Loan to be made on such date.

       (c) DOWN PAYMENT. AE shall have confirmed that the LSA Party has paid to
           AE an amount equal to at least four million four hundred thousand
           Dollars ($4,400,000) and said amount shall not have been financed or
           guaranteed by AEF or an Affiliate of AEF.

1.042  CONVERSION CONDITIONS. The obligation of AEF to convert the Tranche A
       Loans to the Tranche B Loan hereunder is subject to the determination by
       AEF, on each of the Conversion Commitment Date and the Conversion Date,
       in its discretion, that each of the following conditions has been
       satisfied:

       (a) APPRAISAL. AEF shall have received a true, complete and correct copy
           of the Appraisal, prepared and delivered by the Appraiser at the
           Customer's sole cost and expense, as set forth in Sections 9.02(a)(i)
           and (c)(i), which Appraisal shall (i) conclude that, taking into
           account all applicable restrictions on resale, the Fair Market Value
           is equal to or greater than the Equipment Cost as of the In-Orbit
           Commissioning Date, (ii) state that, taking into account all
           applicable restrictions on resale, the Assumed Distress Value as of
           the In-Orbit Commissioning Date shall be in an amount sufficient so
           as to permit the Distress Recovery Value to be equal to no less than
           the applicable Required Distress Recovery Value and (iii) specify the
           estimated economic and warranted life of the Satellite which shall be
           equal to or longer than the Tranche B Term.

       (b) CUSTOMER CATEGORY. AEF shall, in its discretion, have determined the
           Customer Category for the Customer in accordance with the criteria
           set forth in ANNEXES 1, 2 AND 3.

       (c) TRANCHE B CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. AEF shall, in its discretion, have
           determined that each of the Tranche B Conditions Precedent has been
           satisfied or shall have received evidence as to the satisfaction of
           the Tranche B Conditions Precedent on the date that is L minus (-)
           fifteen (15) days and shall have received a certificate from a
           Responsible Officer of the Customer to the effect that each of the
           Conversion Conditions and the Tranche B Conditions Precedent has been
           satisfied, setting forth in reasonable detail any calculations
           necessary to demonstrate such satisfaction.

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       (d) INTEREST PAYMENTS. Any interest due and payable by the Customer
           hereunder shall have been paid or capitalized as permitted hereunder
           as of the Conversion Commitment Date, and the Customer shall not have
           been in default during the Tranche A Term with respect to payments of
           interest or other amounts, due and payable hereunder or under the Fee
           Letter prior to the Conversion Commitment Date, PROVIDED that for the
           purpose of determining satisfaction of this condition a default shall
           be defined as a failure to make a payment of interest or other
           amounts due and payable by the Customer hereunder or under the Fee
           Letter within five (5) Business Days of the date when due.

       (e) PROJECT FINANCING. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
           Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, then AEF shall have
           received evidence that the Customer has obtained a firm and binding
           (subject to no conditions precedent that, in AEF's reasonable
           opinion, are unlikely to be timely satisfied) commitment for the
           Project Financing, together with evidence as to the application of
           the Project Loans to the Equipment Cost as described in the Business
           Plan.

       (f) FINANCIAL PRO FORMA; CONVERSION BASE CASE. If the Customer shall have
           been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer
           or a Category 3 Customer, then AEF shall, in its discretion, have
           determined that the financial pro forma referred to in Section
           9.02(c)(i) (if the Customer shall have been determined to be a
           Category 1C Customer) or the Conversion Base Case (if the Customer
           shall have been determined to be a Category 2 Customer or a Category
           3 Customer) complies with the required financial tests as set forth
           in ANNEXES 1, 2 OR 3, respectively.

       (g) OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF THE SATELLITE. If AEF or the Security Agent
           shall have theretofore requested the Customer to deliver evidence
           pursuant to Sections 6.16(b) and (c), AEF or the Security Agent
           (whichever has made the request) shall have received such evidence,
           which is satisfactory to such Person for such purpose.

       (h) LOCATION OF DOMICILE, LICENSING AND RECEIPT OF REVENUES. Each country
           in which the Customer is Domiciled, Licensed or receiving a
           substantial portion of its Project revenues is a Permitted Location.

       (i) LOCATION OF GROUND FACILITIES. Each of the items described in clause
           (g) of the definition of Collateral (other than those items the
           absence of which could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material
           Adverse Effect) necessary to operate and maintain the Satellite that
           cannot, in the judgment of AEF, be substituted in a Permitted
           Location before the inability to operate the Satellite could
           reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect is located
           in a Permitted Location.

1.043  TRANCHE B CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. The obligation of AEF to convert the
       Tranche A Loans to the Tranche B Loan hereunder is subject to the
       determination by AEF, on

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       each of the Conversion Commitment Date (other than in the cases of the
       items referred to in Sections 4.03(a)(vii) and 4.03(a)(xv)) and the
       Conversion Date, in its discretion, that each of the following conditions
       has been or continues to be satisfied:

       (a) CONVERSION DOCUMENTS. AEF shall have received each of the following,
           in form and substance satisfactory to, and, in the case of the
           materials referred to in clauses (i), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix),
           (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv) and (xvii), certified as a true
           copy as of the Conversion Commitment Date and the Conversion Date in
           a manner satisfactory to, AEF (provided that, in lieu of redelivering
           any previously delivered items on the Conversion Date, the Customer
           may deliver or cause to be delivered to AEF on the Conversion Date
           "reaffirmations" satisfactory to AEF of such items signed by the
           appropriate Person to the effect that such items have not been
           modified since they were previously delivered and that they remain in
           full force and effect on as of the Conversion Date as fully as if
           dated and delivered on the Conversion Date):

           (i)   CONSTITUTIONAL DOCUMENTS; RESOLUTIONS; INCUMBENCY. A
                 certificate of the secretary or other appropriate Responsible
                 Officer of the Customer certifying:

                 (A) The constitutional documents of the Customer, as in effect
                     on the Conversion Commitment Date;

                 (B) Copies of the resolutions of the board of directors (or
                     Persons having similar functions) of the Customer approving
                     and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance by
                     the Customer of the Loan Documents, the Satellite Contracts
                     and any agreements for the lease of transponders or use of
                     communications capacity on the Satellite that constitute
                     Collateral not previously approved and authorized as of the
                     Closing Date; and

                 (C) The names and true signatures of Responsible Officers of
                     the Customer authorized to execute, deliver and perform, as
                     applicable, the Loan Documents, the Satellite Contracts and
                     any agreements for the lease of transponders or use of
                     communications capacity on the Satellite that constitute
                     Collateral not previously approved and authorized as of the
                     Closing Date.

           (ii)  COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS. Unless already executed and delivered
                 pursuant to Sections 2.11 and 4.01, the Assignment and Security
                 Agreement, the TTC&M Mortgage, the Consents to Assignment and
                 all other Collateral Documents, together with certificates,
                 opinions of counsel and other documentation (including, without
                 limitation, a consent by the Customer to the assignment and
                 pledge by AEF to the Lenders of its rights under this Agreement
                 and the Collateral

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                 Documents), duly executed and delivered by the Customer and all
                 other parties thereto.

           (iii) INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT. Unless already executed and delivered
                 pursuant to Sections 2.11 and 4.01, the Intercreditor
                 Agreement, together with certificates, opinions of counsel and
                 other documentation, duly executed and delivered by AEF, the
                 Security Agent, the Lenders (or an agent acting on their
                 behalf), the applicable ECAs and the Project Agent.

           (iv)  LEGAL OPINIONS. An opinion of (A) special New York counsel to
                 the Customer, addressed to AEF, (B) special Federal
                 Communications Commission counsel to the Customer, addressed to
                 AEF, and (C) such other opinions as may be requested by AEF, in
                 each case in form and substance acceptable to AEF, and rendered
                 by counsel acceptable to AEF, and accompanied in each case
                 referred to in clauses (A) through (C) above by letters from
                 such counsel addressed to Persons designated by AEF stating
                 that such Persons are entitled to rely on the respective
                 opinions of such counsel.

           (v)   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. Audited financial statements of the
                 Customer covering its preceding three (3) fiscal years (or such
                 shorter period as it shall have had operations), and its most
                 recent unaudited interim financial statements, in form and
                 substance satisfactory to AEF.

           (vi)  DOMESTIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPROVALS. A certificate of a
                 Responsible Officer of the Customer to the effect that all
                 national and local Telecommunications Approvals that are
                 necessary or, in the opinion of AEF, desirable for the
                 construction and launch of the Satellite, the provision of
                 services to the transponders, if applicable, and the
                 construction of the TTC&M Facilities and the Project in general
                 have been obtained and are in full force and effect and
                 unrestricted and unconditional, together with certified copies
                 of all such approvals.

           (vii) COLLATERAL CONTRACTS. A true, complete and correct copy of each
                 Contract referred to in the definition of "COLLATERAL" in
                 Section 1.01 as currently in effect (including all exhibits,
                 schedules and documents referred to therein or delivered
                 pursuant thereto, if any), together with any amendments
                 thereto, and any payment schedules in respect thereof, each
                 duly executed and delivered by each party thereto.

          (viii) INSURANCE. Not later than L minus (-) thirty (30) days,
                 evidence satisfactory to AEF that the insurance required by
                 Sections 6.06(a) and (b) (excluding clause (ii) thereof) is in
                 effect by the delivery of certified copies of the insurance
                 policies, broker's undertakings and certificates of insurance
                 with respect thereto in form and substance, and issued by

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                 companies, satisfactory to AEF (provided that such evidence for
                 the insurance required by Section 6.06(b)(iii) may consist
                 solely of a certificate of insurance) and certificates of an
                 internationally recognized insurance broker satisfactory to AEF
                 certifying that such insurance complies with Sections 6.06(a),
                 (b) (excluding clause (ii) thereof) and (c) covering the risks
                 referred to therein and that all insurance deposits and
                 premiums then due and payable have been paid and that any
                 unpaid balance for the insurance required by Section 6.06(b)
                 (excluding clause (ii) thereof) is due and payable no later
                 than L minus (-) fifteen (15) days. Not later than the
                 Conversion Date, AEF shall have received a certificate from
                 such insurance broker certifying that any such unpaid balance
                 for the insurance required by Section 6.06(b) (excluding
                 clauses (ii) and (iii) thereof) has been paid in full.

          (ix)   EXPORT LICENSES. A true, complete and correct copy of each
                 Export License.
               
          (x)    FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL APPROVALS. A true, complete and
                 correct copy of any applicable foreign exchange control
                 approvals.
               
          (xi)   ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS. A true, complete and correct copy of any
                 applicable Environmental Permits.
               
          (xii)  GOVERNMENT APPROVALS. Except as may be already provided in this
                 Section 4.03, true, complete and correct copies of all
                 Government Approvals.

          (xiii) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. A true, complete and correct copy of
                 any trademarks, patents or agreements necessary with respect to
                 the usage of technology for the Project.

          (xiv)  PROCESS AGENT. A letter from CT Corporation System (or any
                 successor thereto), confirming its acceptance of appointment as
                 process agent in New York for the Customer.
               
          (xv)   ECA COVERAGE. Evidence satisfactory to AEF that any ECA Country
                 Risk Coverage and ECA Enhancement shall be in full force and
                 effect in accordance with the terms thereof under documentation
                 in form and substance satisfactory to AEF and that all
                 conditions precedent to the availability of support thereunder
                 shall have been satisfied.
               
          (xvi)  CONFIRMATION OF RELEVANT LOCATIONS. A certificate of a
                 Responsible Officer of the Customer confirming the continuing
                 accuracy of the information contained in the list provided
                 under Section 9.02(d)(ii) or, if any such information is no
                 longer correct, correcting such information.


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         (xvii)  SATELLITE CONTRACT AND TTC&M CONTRACT. A true, complete and
                 correct copy of each of the Satellite Contract and the TTC&M
                 Contract as currently in effect (including all exhibits,
                 schedules and documents referred to therein or delivered
                 pursuant thereto, if any), together with any amendments
                 thereto.

         (xviii) OTHER DOCUMENTS. Such other statements, certificates,
                 documents, information, approvals or opinions with respect to
                 the Project or matters contemplated by this Agreement or the
                 other Loan Documents as AEF may reasonably request.

       (b) INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPROVALS. Not later than L minus
           (-) fifteen (15) days, the Customer shall have duly obtained, or
           caused to have been duly obtained, all international
           Telecommunications Approvals that are necessary or, in the reasonable
           opinion of AEF, desirable for the construction, launch, maintenance
           and operation of the Project as contemplated by the Loan Documents,
           the Satellite Contracts and any other agreement or instrument entered
           into from time to time relating to the Project and, if applicable,
           the Business Plan, including, without limitation, the use of the
           radio-frequencies and the orbital position of the Satellite, properly
           coordinated and notified to the RCB and entered into the Master
           Register of the RCB, and such international Telecommunications
           Approvals shall be in full force and effect and unrestricted and
           unconditional, and the Customer shall have delivered a certificate of
           a Responsible Officer to that effect.

       (c) PAYMENT OF FINANCE COSTS AND EXPENSES. All costs, accrued and unpaid
           fees and expenses hereunder and under any of the other Loan Documents
           (including, without limitation, legal fees and expenses) to the
           extent then due and payable by the Customer, including, without
           limitation, any arising under or contemplated by Section 2.08, 3.01
           or 10.04, shall have been paid in full or capitalized as permitted
           hereunder or arrangements satisfactory to AEF shall have been made to
           cause them to be paid in full concurrently with the Conversion of
           such Loans.

       (d) TITLE AND LIENS. AEF shall be satisfied that, concurrently with the
           execution and delivery of the Collateral Documents, (i) there will be
           (and, as of the Conversion Date, there has been) delivered to AEF
           such Lien, judgment, title and registry searches as AEF shall have
           requested of the Customer, (ii) there will be (and, as of the
           Conversion Date, there has been) delivered to AEF applications to
           remove any Lien in favor of any third party not otherwise permitted
           by Section 7.01, together with copies of the relevant document
           releasing such Lien and (iii) all such filings, registrations or
           recordations as may be necessary or appropriate under applicable
           laws, rules, regulations or orders, or that AEF may reasonably
           request, shall have been accomplished in order to create, preserve,
           protect, validate or satisfy the security interest in the Collateral
           created by the Collateral Documents, as described in Sections 5.03,
           5.15 and 5.16 and having the perfection and priority as required by
           Section

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           9.04, PROVIDED that with respect to the Satellite or any other
           Collateral, if the Customer shall not have sole and unencumbered
           title thereto on the Conversion Date, other arrangements satisfactory
           to AEF shall have been agreed and effected to provide equivalent
           security to AEF and the Lenders and assurance that such Lien thereon
           will be created and perfected on or prior to the In-Orbit
           Commissioning Date.

       (e) CONTRACT PAYMENTS. The SPA Party, the LSA Party and the TTC&M Party
           shall have made the required payments then due under the Satellite
           Contracts, and (unless the Customer has been determined to be a
           Category 1A Customer or a Category 1B Customer) the Customer shall
           have made arrangements satisfactory to AEF to procure financing for,
           or equity contributions (in compliance with the terms and conditions
           hereof) in an amount sufficient to fund, the payment of (i) amounts
           that are required to be paid under the Satellite Contracts with
           respect to the Project on or after the Conversion Commitment Date and
           (ii) interest payable on the Total Senior Debt Outstanding for the
           period of six (6) months following the Conversion Date.

       (f) EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the
           Satellite Contracts and all other consents, approvals or other
           documents set forth in this Section 4.03, shall have been duly
           executed and delivered by the parties thereto and shall be in full
           force and effect and no section of any Satellite Contract relating to
           payment terms or any performance guarantees or warranties shall have
           been amended, modified, revoked, terminated or waived except, in each
           case, as approved by AEF. Each of the Satellite Contracts shall
           contain terms related to guarantees and warranties thereunder
           acceptable to AEF and the TTC&M Contract shall contain provisions
           satisfactory to AEF with respect to the performance obligations of
           the TTC&M Party thereunder and the termination of the TTC&M Party's
           obligations thereunder.

       (g) ILLEGALITY. Making loans into a country in which the Customer is
           Domiciled, Licensed or receiving a substantial portion of its
           revenues shall not be an illegal activity for AEF or any of the
           Lenders and the Customer shall not have become a Prohibited Person.

       (h) MILITARY ACTIVITIES. The use and operation of the Satellite shall not
           be substantially for or on behalf of any governmental or
           inter-governmental defense or military agency, or any defense or
           military agency of any political group, or substantially for
           non-commercial communications in support of the operations or
           activities of the military, national security or armed forces of any
           country or political group.

       (i) RATE CONTRACTS. If the Customer has been determined to be a Category
           2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, it shall have obtained binding
           commitments from one or more banks or other financial institutions
           for Rate Contracts required by Section 6.15 to be in effect on the
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       (j) NOTE. AEF shall have received the Note duly executed and delivered by
           the Customer.

1.044  CONDITIONS TO ALL LOANS. The obligation of AEF to make or Convert any
       Loan to be made or Converted or deemed made by it hereunder (including
       its initial Loan) is subject to the satisfaction of the following
       conditions precedent on the relevant date:

       (a) NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN. For purposes of making a Tranche A Loan only, AEF
           shall have received a Notice of Drawdown. The Notice of Drawdown
           delivered by the Customer shall constitute a representation and
           warranty by the Customer on and as of the date of the Notice of
           Drawdown that the conditions in Sections 4.04(b), (c) and (d) have
           been satisfied.

       (b) CONTINUATION OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The representations
           and warranties made by the Customer contained in Section 5 of this
           Agreement and any other Loan Document shall be true, complete and
           correct on and as of the date of such borrowing or Conversion with
           the same effect as if made on and as of the date of such borrowing or
           Conversion (except as to representations and warranties expressly
           stated to be made only at or as of a specified time or times).

       (c) NO EXISTING DEFAULT. No Default or Event of Default exists as of the
           date hereof or shall exist as of the date of the making or Conversion
           of such Loan or shall result from the making or Conversion of such
           Loan and no default or event of default under the Project Financing
           Agreements shall exist as of the date of any such Loan.

       (d) NO MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT. No event or circumstance that could
           reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect shall have
           occurred since (i) with respect to the making of the initial Tranche
           A Loan, the date hereof, (ii) with respect to the making of any
           subsequent Tranche A Loan, the date of the immediately preceding
           notice of drawdown and (iii) with respect to Conversion, the
           Conversion Commitment Date.


                    SECTION 5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Customer hereby represents and warrants to AEF as follows as of the date
hereof (or, in the case of any of the following representations that is
expressly limited to being made on a certain date as of such certain date) and
any other date that this Agreement requires the Customer to make the following
representations and warranties:

1.051  EXISTENCE AND POWER. Each Relevant Company (a) is duly organized, validly
       existing and properly registered and in good standing, as applicable,
       under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has the power
       and authority and all governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and
       approvals required to be held by it as of the date hereof to own its
       properties and assets, carry on its business and to

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       execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents and
       the Satellite Contracts, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign organization,
       licensed and registered to do business under the laws of each
       jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of property or the
       conduct of its business requires such qualification and (d) is in
       compliance with all Requirements of Law the non-compliance with which
       could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

1.052  AUTHORIZATIONS; NO CONTRAVENTION. The execution, delivery and performance
       by the Customer of each of the Loan Documents and each of the Satellite
       Contracts to which it is a party, have been duly authorized by all
       necessary action and do not and will not: (a) contravene the terms of
       that Person's certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of
       incorporation or other organization or constitutive documents, (b)
       conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the
       creation or imposition of any Lien under, any Contract, injunction,
       order, decree or undertaking to which such Person is a party or is bound
       (other than the Liens on Collateral to be created under the Collateral
       Documents), (c) violate any Requirement of Law, the non-compliance with
       which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or
       (d) require any consent or approval of the board of directors (or other
       Persons having similar functions) of the Customer or any other Person
       that has not been obtained, and each such consent and approval that has
       been obtained is adequate for its intended purpose and is in full force
       and effect.

1.053  GOVERNMENT APPROVALS. Except as may be otherwise set forth on SCHEDULE
       5.03 (as may be amended from time to time by the parties hereto), all
       Government Approvals have been obtained and all acts, conditions and
       filings required to be done, fulfilled and performed (such Government
       Approvals, acts, conditions and filing being referred to herein as
       "NECESSARY ACTIONS") in order (a) to enable the Customer to enter into,
       exercise its rights under and perform and comply with the obligations
       expressed to be assumed by it in each Loan Document and each Satellite
       Contract, (b) to ensure that the obligations expressed to be assumed by
       the Customer in each Loan Document and each Satellite Contract are legal,
       valid and binding, (c) to enable it to create the Liens contemplated by
       each of the Collateral Documents and to ensure that such Liens are valid,
       legally binding and enforceable and are or will be perfected as required
       by Section 9.04, and have or will have the priority, as required by
       Section 9.04, and (d) to make each Loan Document and each Satellite
       Contract admissible in evidence in each of New York, Luxembourg, The
       District of Columbia and Delaware, have been done, fulfilled and
       performed; except that (x) in the case of the foregoing clause (a),
       Necessary Actions that can be obtained, done, fulfilled and performed
       without undue cost, burden or delay and that are not now required to
       enable the Customer to exercise its rights under and perform and comply
       with its obligations under the Loan Documents and the Satellite Contracts
       will be obtained, done, fulfilled and performed when so required and in
       any event, with respect to any Satellite Contract executed on or before
       the Conversion Date, no later than the Conversion Date, (y) in the case
       of the foregoing clause (c) such Necessary Actions will be obtained,
       done, fulfilled and performed no later than the respective dates that the
       Liens referred to in said clause are required hereby or pursuant hereto
       to be granted, to be perfected and to have the priority referred to in
       said clause and (z) in the case of clause (d), Necessary Actions

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       consisting of routine procedural requirements for the enforcement of the
       Loan Documents in a judicial forum that are not now required can be
       obtained, done, fulfilled and performed by AEF (without the assistance or
       cooperation of the Customer) without undue cost, burden or delay when so
       required. All such Government Approvals heretofore obtained or required
       to be obtained have been duly obtained, were validly issued, are in full
       force and effect, are not subject to appeal and are held in the name of,
       or for the benefit of, the appropriate Persons. The Customer has no
       reason to believe that any such Government Approval that will expire by
       its term or in accordance with Requirements of Law prior to the Maturity
       Date will not be renewed or extended on or prior to such expiration
       without undue cost, delay or burden. There is no proceeding pending or,
       to the actual knowledge of the Customer, threatened against the Customer
       or any property of the Customer, which seeks, or may reasonably be
       expected, to rescind, terminate, modify or suspend any Telecommunications
       Approval or any other Government Approval. There has not occurred any
       event that would make unlikely the delivery or issuance as anticipated
       of, and when and as needed, all Government Approvals listed on SCHEDULE
       5.03. No such Government Approval already obtained is subject to any
       restriction, condition, limitation or other provision that could
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The information
       set forth in each application submitted by the Customer in connection
       with each such Government Approval is accurate and complete in all
       material respects taken as a whole, except for statements or omissions
       that could not reasonably be expected to affect adversely the validity of
       such Government Approvals. Except as otherwise provided for in this
       Agreement, no other material consent, approval or authorization of, or
       declaration or filing with, any other Person is required in connection
       with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of
       this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Satellite
       Contracts.

1.054  BINDING EFFECT. This Agreement, each of the other Loan Documents and each
       of the Satellite Contracts to which the Customer or any of its Affiliates
       is a party constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of such
       Person, enforceable against such Person in accordance with their
       respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable
       bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
       creditors' rights generally or by equitable principles relating to
       enforceability.

1.055  LITIGATION. Except as set forth on SCHEDULE 5.05, and except for matters
       arising after the date hereof which could not reasonably be expected to
       have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) there are no actions, suits,
       proceedings, claims or disputes pending, or to the knowledge of the
       Customer, threatened or contemplated at law, in equity, in arbitration or
       before any Governmental Authority, against or affecting the Customer or
       any Subsidiary of the Customer, or any of their respective properties,
       rights or assets or the Project that: (i) purport to affect or pertain to
       this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Satellite
       Contracts, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or
       (ii) if determined adversely to such Person could reasonably be expected
       to have a Material Adverse Effect and (b) to the knowledge of the
       Customer, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes
       pending, or

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       threatened or contemplated at law, in equity, in arbitration or before
       any Governmental Authority, against or affecting any Affiliate of the
       Customer (other than a Subsidiary of the Customer), any LSA Party, any
       SPA Party, any Affiliate of any LSA Party or SPA Party, or any of their
       respective properties, rights or assets or the Project that: (i) purport
       to affect or pertain to this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of
       the Satellite Contracts, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby
       or thereby, or (ii) if determined adversely to such Person could
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No injunction,
       writ, temporary restraining order or any order of any nature has been
       issued against the Customer or any of its Subsidiaries or (to the
       knowledge of the Customer) any Affiliate of the Customer (other than a
       Subsidiary of the Customer), any LSA Party, any SPA Party or any
       Affiliate of any LSA Party or SPA Party, by any court or other
       Governmental Authority purporting to enjoin or restrain (excluding any
       restraint constituting the imposition of a condition that the Customer
       reasonably determines can be satisfied without undue cost, burden or
       delay) such Person from the execution, delivery and performance of this
       Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the Satellite Contracts, or
       directing that the transactions provided for herein or therein not be
       consummated by such Person as herein or therein provided.

1.056  NO DEFAULT. No Default or Event of Default exists or would result from
       the incurring of obligations by the Customer under any Loan Document. No
       Relevant Company is in default under or with respect to any Contract to
       which it is a party in any respect (nor would any such default result
       from the incurring of obligations by the Customer under the Loan
       Documents) which, individually or together with all such defaults, could
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

1.057  USE OF PROCEEDS. The proceeds of the Loans are being used solely for the
       purposes set forth in Section 6.11.

1.058  TITLE TO ASSETS. Each Relevant Company has good record and marketable
       title in and to all of its properties, except for such defects in title
       as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to
       have a Material Adverse Effect or, if the Customer does not have such
       title to the Satellite or any other Collateral, it will have such title
       on or prior to the In-Orbit Commissioning Date pursuant to the terms of
       the Satellite Purchase Agreement. Such properties are free and clear of
       all Liens or rights of others, except Permitted Liens.

1.059  TAXES. The Customer has filed all tax returns and reports required to be
       filed and has paid all taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental
       charges levied or imposed upon any Relevant Company or any of their
       respective properties, income or assets or otherwise due and payable,
       except those that are being contested in good faith by appropriate
       proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been provided in
       accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and no Notice of
       Lien has been filed or recorded. There is no proposed tax assessment
       against any Relevant Company that could, if the assessment were made,
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


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5.10   FINANCIAL CONDITION

       (a) SCHEDULE 5.10 sets forth a complete and correct list of the audited
           financial statements submitted by the Customer and any Guarantor to
           AEF in order to induce AEF to execute and deliver this Agreement
           ("BASE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS"), which financial statements shall be
           for such fiscal periods as AEF shall have reasonably required and
           such financial statements: (i) were prepared in accordance with
           Generally Accepted Accounting Principles consistently applied
           throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly
           noted therein, (ii) are complete and correct and fairly present the
           financial condition of the Customer as of the dates thereof and
           results of operations for the periods covered thereby and (iii) show
           all Indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the
           Customer as of the date thereof (including liabilities for taxes and
           material commitments) that would be required under Generally Accepted
           Accounting Principles to be disclosed. Except as referred to or
           reflected or otherwise provided for in said financial statements as
           at said date, the Customer had on said date no material contingent
           liabilities, liabilities for taxes, unusual forward or long-term
           commitments or unrealized or anticipated losses from any unfavorable
           commitments of any type whatsoever that would be required under
           Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to be disclosed.

       (b) The financial statements of the Customer Group delivered to AEF
           pursuant to Section 4.03(a)(v) (the "CONVERSION FINANCIAL
           STATEMENTS") will, when furnished hereunder: (i) have been prepared
           in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
           consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, (ii) be
           complete and correct and fairly present the financial condition of
           the Customer Group as of the date thereof and results of operations
           for the periods covered thereby, (iii) provide (together with the
           Related Accounting Reconciliation) sufficient information to enable
           AEF, in the opinion of AEF, to apply the tests set out in ANNEX 1, 2
           OR 3, as applicable, consistently to the Customer Group and (iv) show
           all Indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the
           Customer Group as of the date thereof (including liabilities for
           taxes and material commitments) that would be required under
           Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to be disclosed. Except as
           referred to or reflected or otherwise provided for in said financial
           statements as at said date, the Customer Group had on said date no
           material contingent liabilities, liabilities for taxes, unusual
           forward or long-term commitments or unrealized or anticipated losses
           from any unfavorable commitments of any type whatsoever that would be
           required under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to be
           disclosed.

       (c) Since the date of the most recent financial statements delivered to
           AEF hereunder, there has occurred no event or circumstance that has
           had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
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5.11   ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. The operations of the Relevant Companies comply in
       all material respects with all Environmental Laws. On the date hereof,
       the Relevant Companies have obtained all licenses, permits,
       authorizations and registrations required under any Environmental Law
       ("ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS") necessary for the operation of the Project, all
       such Environmental Permits are valid and in full force and effect on the
       date hereof and the Relevant Companies are in compliance with all terms
       and conditions of such Environmental Permits on the date hereof. Except
       as set forth on SCHEDULE 5.11, none of the Relevant Companies nor any of
       their respective present properties or operations is subject to any
       outstanding written order from or agreement with any Governmental
       Authority or other Person, nor subject to any judicial or docketed
       administrative proceeding, respecting any Environmental Law or
       Environmental Claim, and there are no conditions or circumstances which
       may give rise to any Environmental Claim arising from the operations of
       any Relevant Company, including Environmental Claims associated with any
       operations of any Relevant Company, with a potential liability in excess
       of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or its equivalent in another
       currency or other currencies) in the aggregate.

5.12   SUBSIDIARIES. On the date hereof, the Customer does not have any
       Subsidiaries other than as listed on SCHEDULE 5.12A, and has no equity
       investments in any other corporation or entity other than as listed on
       SCHEDULE 5.12B.

5.13   INSURANCE. The properties of the Customer Group are insured with
       financially sound and reputable insurance companies in such amounts, with
       such deductibles and covering such risks as is customarily carried by
       companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in
       localities where the respective members of the Customer Group operate and
       in any event, in such amounts and with such terms as are required by
       Section 6.06. Compliance by the Customer with its obligations pursuant to
       Section 6.06 shall constitute, with respect to the insurance expressly
       referred to therein, compliance with its obligations under this Section
       5.13.

5.14   PROJECT COMPLIANCE. The Project complies in all material respects with
       all covenants, conditions, restrictions and reservations in the
       Government Approvals, if any, applicable at such time, the Loan Documents
       and the Satellite Contracts applicable thereto, except for any failure to
       comply that could not reasonably be expected to affect adversely the
       validity of such Government Approvals or otherwise to have a Material
       Adverse Effect.

5.15   COLLATERAL. From and after the Conversion Date, (a) except as may be
       permitted pursuant to the proviso contained in Section 4.03(d), the
       Customer or (in the case of the items referred to in clause (g) of the
       definition of "Collateral") an Affiliate of the Customer shall have good,
       marketable and valid title in and to all of the Collateral free and clear
       of all Liens other than Permitted Liens and (b) no mortgage or financing
       statement or other instrument or recordation covering all or any part of
       the Collateral shall be on file in any recording office other than any
       such filing in connection with the Liens created by the Collateral
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5.16   COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS. From and after the date of the execution and
       delivery of the Collateral Documents, except as may be permitted pursuant
       to the proviso contained in Section 4.03(d), the Collateral Documents
       shall create in favor of the Security Agent legal, valid and enforceable
       Liens on or in all of the Collateral. All filings, recordations,
       registrations and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect such
       Liens shall have been duly performed on or before the Conversion Date and
       at all times thereafter and each Lien created by the Collateral Documents
       shall, except as permitted by Section 9.04, constitute a perfected Lien
       on or before the Conversion Date and at all times thereafter on or in all
       right, title, estate and interest of the Customer or any Affiliate
       thereof party to the Assignment and Security Agreement, as applicable, in
       the Collateral covered thereby, having the perfection and priority
       required by Section 9.04, and all necessary and appropriate consents to
       such creation and perfection of such Liens of each of the parties to the
       Loan Documents shall have been obtained on or before the Conversion Date
       and at all times thereafter.

5.17   SUFFICIENCY OF LOAN DOCUMENTS AND SATELLITE CONTRACTS. The Loan Documents
       and the Satellite Contracts (and any exhibits or documents referred to
       therein) that have been executed and delivered constitute, or will
       constitute when executed and delivered, all agreements required for the
       acquisition, construction and completion of the Project when and as
       contemplated by the Loan Documents, the Satellite Contracts and, if
       applicable, the Business Plan and all arrangements to which the Customer
       (and, to the best knowledge of the Customer, any other obligor) is a
       party that may affect the security provided to the Security Agent under
       the Collateral Documents, the financial condition, business or operations
       of the Customer or the Project or the ability of the Customer and any
       obligor to observe and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents
       and the Satellite Contracts to which it is a party. All permits,
       licenses, trademarks, patents or agreements with respect to the usage of
       technology or other property (other than those constituting Government
       Approvals referred to in Section 5.03) that are necessary for the
       acquisition, construction, ownership and operation of the Project
       substantially as contemplated by the Loan Documents, the Satellite
       Contracts and, if applicable, the Business Plan (except for those that
       are not required to be obtained on or prior to the date hereof, as to
       which the Customer has no reason to believe they will not obtained by the
       date required) have been obtained, are final and are in full force and
       effect. The services to be performed, the materials to be supplied and
       the property interests and other rights granted pursuant to the Loan
       Documents and the Satellite Contracts comprise all of the property
       interests necessary to secure any such right material to the acquisition,
       construction and ownership of the Project as contemplated by the Loan
       Documents, the Satellite Contracts and, if applicable, the Business Plan
       in accordance with all applicable laws and as contemplated by the Loan
       Documents and the Satellite Contracts. There are no material services,
       materials or contractual rights required for the acquisition,
       construction and ownership of the Project other than those granted by, or
       to be provided to the Customer pursuant to, the Loan Documents and the
       Satellite Contracts.

5.18   DISCLOSURE. The information furnished in writing at or prior to the
       Closing Date by the Customer to AEF in connection with this Agreement and
       the transactions

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       contemplated hereby is and will be, as of the Closing Date, true,
       complete and accurate in every material respect or based on reasonable
       estimates on the date as of which such information is stated or certified
       and is not incomplete by omitting to state any material fact necessary to
       make such information (taken as a whole) not misleading in light of the
       circumstances under which such information was made. The financial
       projections contained in such material and in the Business Plan (if
       applicable) were made in good faith and the assumptions on the basis of
       which such projections were made (when made) are (as of the date of this
       Agreement) reasonable. There is no fact known to the Customer on the date
       as of which this representation and warranty is made that has not been
       disclosed in writing to AEF that could reasonably be expected to have a
       Material Adverse Effect.

5.19   EFFECTIVENESS OF LOAN DOCUMENTS, SATELLITE CONTRACTS AND QUALIFIED LEASE
       AGREEMENTS. Except as otherwise permitted from time to time pursuant to
       this Agreement, none of the Loan Documents, Satellite Contracts or, if
       applicable, Qualified Lease Agreements that have been executed as of the
       date hereof has been amended, modified or terminated at any time, and all
       of the Loan Documents, Satellite Contracts and, if applicable, Qualified
       Lease Agreements are in full force and effect.

5.20   EMPLOYEE BENEFIT LIABILITIES. Neither the Customer nor any ERISA
       Affiliate sponsors or maintains, or makes contributions to (or has
       sponsored or maintained, or made contributions within the last six (6)
       years to) any employee pension benefit plan subject to ERISA and any
       regulation promulgated thereunder.

5.21   INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT. If the Customer is subject to the jurisdiction of
       the Investment Company Act of 1940 of the United States of America, the
       Customer is not an "investment company" or a Person "controlled" by an
       "investment company", within the meaning of such Act.



                        SECTION 6. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

The Customer covenants and agrees that, from and after the date hereof and so
long as AEF shall have any Commitment hereunder or any Loan or other amount
shall remain unpaid, unless AEF waives compliance in writing:

1.061  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. The Customer shall deliver to AEF in form and
       detail satisfactory to AEF:

       (a) as soon as available, but not later than one hundred and eighty (180)
           days after the end of each fiscal year of the Customer, commencing
           with the fiscal year ending December 31, 1997, (i) a copy of the
           audited consolidated balance sheets of the Customer Group as at the
           end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of
           income, stockholders' equity and cash flows for such fiscal year (or
           such other audited statements as provide equivalent


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           measures of the Customer Group's financial condition), setting forth
           in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year,
           and accompanied by the unqualified opinion of an
           internationally-recognized independent public accounting firm, which
           report shall state that such consolidated financial statements are
           complete and present fairly the financial position for the periods
           indicated in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
           applied on a basis consistent with prior years, and (ii) all such
           additional financial information (including, without limitation, the
           Related Accounting Reconciliation) in respect of such financial
           statements as AEF may require for the purposes of determining whether
           the financial covenants and ratios to be complied with by the
           Customer Group hereunder have been complied with; together with, if
           applicable, the operating results projected for such period as set
           forth in the Business Plan, if any, for such period; and

       (b) as soon as available, but not later than sixty (60) days after (i)
           prior to the Conversion Date, each fiscal quarter of the Customer and
           (ii) on and after the Conversion Date, (A) so long as the Customer
           shall have been determined to be a Category 1 Customer, the end of
           each semi-annual period of each fiscal year of the Customer, (B) so
           long as the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 2
           Customer, and the Customer does not routinely prepare quarterly
           financial statements, the end of each semi-annual period of each
           fiscal year of the Customer and (C) so long as the Customer shall
           have been determined to be a Category 2 Customer and the Customer
           does routinely prepare quarterly financial statements, or a Category
           3 Customer, the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of
           each fiscal year of the Customer, commencing with the first such
           fiscal quarter (or semi-annual period, as the case may be) to end
           after the date hereof, a copy of the unaudited consolidated balance
           sheets of the Customer Group as of the end of such quarter (or semi-
           annual period, as the case may be) and the related consolidated
           statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows for the
           period commencing on the first day and ending on the last day of such
           quarter (or semi-annual period, as the case may be) (or such other
           statements as prepared by the Customer that provide comparable
           measures of the Customer Group's financial condition), and certified
           by an appropriate Responsible Officer as being complete and fairly
           presenting, in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting
           Principles, the financial position and the results of operations of
           the Customer Group along with all such additional financial
           information (including, without limitation, the Related Accounting
           Reconciliation) in respect of such financial statements as AEF may
           require for the purposes of determining whether the financial
           covenants and ratios to be complied with by the Customer Group
           hereunder have been complied with; together with, if applicable, the
           operating results projected for such period as set forth in the
           Business Plan, if any, for such period.

1.062 CERTIFICATES; OTHER INFORMATION.  The Customer shall furnish to AEF:



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       (a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred
           to in Section 6.01(a) and (b) above, a certificate of a Responsible
           Officer of the Customer stating that, to the best of such officer's
           knowledge, the Customer, during such period, has observed or
           performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied
           every condition contained in this Agreement to be observed, performed
           or satisfied by it, and that such Responsible Officer has obtained no
           knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in
           such certificate;

       (b) unless otherwise delivered pursuant to the terms of this Agreement,
           promptly after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements
           and regular, periodical or special reports that the Customer may make
           to, or file with, the national public securities commission and stock
           exchange having authority over the Customer and any applicable
           Telecommunications Authority, or any successor thereto or similar
           Governmental Authorities or successors thereto;

       (c) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 2
           Customer or a Category 3 Customer, (i) concurrently with the delivery
           of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) above, a
           certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Customer, certifying a
           true, complete and correct copy of the then current Business Plan and
           (ii) the Customer shall update the Business Plan, on an annual basis
           within thirty (30) days before the end of each fiscal year of the
           Customer, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, for
           purposes of updating the financial projections (including the current
           debt interest rate) made the previous fiscal year relating to the
           construction, launch and operation of the Project, such revised
           Business Plan to be in form and substance satisfactory to AEF;

       (d) promptly after the receipt by the Customer of the results of the
           initial in-orbit tests, a description in reasonable detail of any
           material deviations from the performance specifications for the
           Satellite set forth in the Satellite Purchase Agreement reflected by
           such results; and

       (e) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, affairs
           or financial condition of any member of the Customer Group as AEF may
           from time to time reasonably request.

           At any time following the occurrence of an Event of Default, the
           Customer shall allow AEF and the Security Agent to meet directly with
           its auditors and to discuss its business and affairs with such
           auditors.

1.063 NOTICES. The Customer shall promptly notify (in writing) AEF of:

       (a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default and of the
           occurrence or existence of any event or circumstance that foreseeably
           will become a Default or Event of Default, in each case describing
           the same in reasonable detail and

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           what action the Customer has taken, or intends to take, to cure such
           Default or Event of Default;

       (b) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation
           or proceeding against or affecting the Customer (i) in which in
           respect of a Category 1A Customer or a Category 1B Customer the
           amount of damages claimed is five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or
           its equivalent in another currency or other currencies) or more, in
           respect of a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a
           Category 3 Customer the amount of damages claimed is two million five
           hundred thousand Dollars ($2,500,000) (or its equivalent in another
           currency or other currencies) or more, (ii) in which the revocation,
           termination, withdrawal, suspension, modification or withholding of
           any Government Approval is sought or threatened or (iii) that, if
           determined adversely to the Customer, could reasonably be expected to
           have a Material Adverse Effect;

       (c) any change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices of
           the Customer together with sufficient information in order for AEF
           (in its discretion) to assess any financial reports submitted to it;

       (d) any revision of the Construction and Payment Schedule relating to the
           Satellite Purchase Agreement and the TTC&M Contract after submission
           thereof as provided in Section 9.01;

       (e) the date of L, upon the initial determination thereof and each change
           in L thereafter; and

       (f) the delivery of, or receipt of, any notice of (i) a reduction in
           coverage of any insurance required to be maintained by Sections
           6.06(a) and (b) or otherwise procured by the Customer covering loss
           of or damage to any of the Customer's property (other than a
           reduction in coverage or amount resulting from a payment thereunder)
           or (ii) the cancellation or non-renewal of any insurance policy.

           Each notice pursuant to this Section shall be delivered promptly
           after a Responsible Officer becomes aware of the subject matter of
           such notice and shall be accompanied by a written statement by a
           Responsible Officer of the Customer setting forth the details and the
           effective date of the occurrence referred to therein.

1.064  PRESERVATION OF EXISTENCE, ETC. The Customer shall, and shall cause each
       other Relevant Company to: (a) preserve and maintain in full force and
       effect its existence and good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction
       of organization, (b) preserve and maintain in full force and effect all
       rights, privileges, qualifications, permits, licenses and franchises
       necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, (c) use its
       reasonable efforts, in the ordinary course and consistent with past
       practices, to preserve its business organization and preserve the
       goodwill and business of the customers, suppliers and others having
       business relations with it and (d) preserve or

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       renew all of its registered trademarks, trade names and service marks,
       the non-preservation of which could reasonably be expected to have a
       Material Adverse Effect.

1.065  MAINTENANCE OF ASSETS. The Customer shall maintain and preserve all of
       its property that is used or useful in connection with the Project in
       good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted. The
       Customer shall give AEF at least forty-five (45) days prior written
       notice of any change in location of the principal office of the Customer.

1.066  MAINTENANCE OF INSURANCE

       (a) GENERAL COVERAGE. The Customer shall, at its own expense, procure and
           maintain in full force and effect at all times on or after the date
           of completion of the construction of the tracking, telemetry, control
           and monitoring facilities with recognized insurance carriers approved
           by AEF, the following insurance:

           (i)   COMMERCIAL GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE: Commercial general
                 liability insurance against claims for bodily injury (including
                 death) and property damage in such amounts and on such terms
                 and conditions as are reasonably acceptable to AEF and as are
                 customarily carried by companies of established repute engaged
                 in the same or a similar business as the Customer in the places
                 where such business is conducted.

           (ii)  PROPERTY DAMAGE INSURANCE: Property damage insurance on an "all
                 risk" basis (with customary conditions and exclusions)
                 including coverage against damage or loss caused by earth
                 movement and flood and providing coverage for the Project other
                 than the Satellite (the "COVERED PROPERTY") in a minimum
                 aggregate amount equal to the "full insurable value" of the
                 Covered Property. For purposes of this clause (ii), "full
                 insurable value" shall mean the full replacement value of the
                 Covered Property, including any improvements and equipment and
                 supplies, without deduction for physical depreciation or
                 obsolescence; all such policies may have deductibles of not
                 greater than one million Dollars ($1,000,000) (or its
                 equivalent in another currency or other currencies) except for
                 earth movement insurance which shall have the lowest deductible
                 as shall (in the opinion of AEF) be available on commercially
                 reasonable terms in the insurance market place. Such insurance
                 shall include an "agreed amount" clause.

       (b) SATELLITE COVERAGE

           (i)   LAUNCH AND INITIAL OPERATIONS INSURANCE. Not later than L minus
                 (-) thirty (30) days, the Customer shall procure, or cause to
                 be procured, at its own expense, binding commitments for the
                 provision of launch and initial operations insurance for a
                 period incepting no later than the


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                 time of Launch and expiring no earlier than (A) if the Customer
                 shall have been determined to be a Category 1 Customer, twelve
                 (12) months, and (B) if the Customer shall have been determined
                 to be a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer,
                 twenty-four (24) months thereafter for risks for which the LSA
                 Party is not entitled to a Reflight pursuant to the Launch
                 Services Agreement (including risks of Partial Failure, Total
                 Failure and Constructive Total Failure), with
                 internationally-recognized, reputable space insurance and
                 reinsurance carriers acceptable to AEF, in a minimum amount
                 equal to the Total Senior Debt Outstanding plus interest on the
                 Total Senior Debt Outstanding (at a rate reasonably determined
                 by AEF) for a period of seven (7) months, on terms and
                 conditions and having such deductibles as are acceptable to
                 AEF. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing
                 requirement that such insurance have terms and conditions
                 acceptable to AEF, (x) there shall be no gap between the time
                 that such launch and initial operations insurance attaches and
                 the time that "all risk" property damage insurance maintained
                 pursuant to Section 6.06(b)(iv) lapses and (y) such launch and
                 initial operations insurance shall provide "wrap-around" cover
                 for risks related to the Launch not covered by the Launch
                 Services Agreement. In the event that the Customer has
                 exercised a cash option with respect to a Launch Services
                 Agreement providing for launch services by an Ariane 4 launch
                 vehicle and the proceeds therefrom are assigned to the Security
                 Agent, the Customer shall be entitled to apply the right to the
                 proceeds from such cash option in substitution for such portion
                 of the coverage provided under the insurance required pursuant
                 to this Section 6.06(b)(i) for such launch services as is
                 covered by such cash option.

           (ii)  IN-ORBIT INSURANCE. On or prior to the date falling six (6)
                 months prior to the expiration of the launch and initial
                 operations insurance coverage, the Customer shall procure at
                 its own expense with internationally-recognized, reputable
                 space insurance and reinsurance carriers acceptable to AEF,
                 in-orbit insurance for risks including Partial Failure, Total
                 Failure and Constructive Total Failure, in a minimum amount
                 equal to the Total Senior Debt Outstanding plus interest on the
                 Total Senior Debt Outstanding (at a rate reasonably determined
                 by AEF) for a period of seven (7) months. The Customer shall
                 renew and maintain the in-orbit insurance in full force and
                 effect at all times thereafter such that it always has a
                 remaining term of at least three (3) months. The terms and
                 conditions of the in-orbit insurance, including all renewals
                 thereof, shall be at least as beneficial to the Insured Parties
                 as the corresponding provisions of the launch and initial
                 operations insurance or (in the case of renewals) the
                 provisions of the in-orbit insurance renewed thereby if such
                 terms and conditions are available on commercially reasonable
                 terms, with only such changes as AEF shall otherwise agree.

           (iii) THIRD-PARTY LIABILITY COVERAGE. The Customer shall cause, or if
                 the Customer is not the LSA Party, the Customer shall cause the
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                 cause, AE to procure and maintain launch and in orbit third
                 party liability insurance for property loss or damage and
                 bodily injury caused by the Launch Vehicle or the Satellite in
                 accordance with the terms and conditions of the Launch Services
                 Agreement, and shall cause AEF and the Lenders to be named as
                 additional insureds thereunder. The Customer shall cause AE to
                 extend to AEF and the Lenders the benefits of its
                 indemnification obligation under the Launch Services Agreement
                 for claims in excess of such third party liability insurance
                 coverage. Without limiting (but without duplication of) the
                 foregoing provisions of this Section 6.06(b)(iii), the Customer
                 shall, upon the expiration of the third party liability
                 insurance procured by AE, procure and maintain third party
                 liability insurance coverage for property loss or damage and
                 bodily injury caused by the Satellite after Launch in an amount
                 on an annual basis of not less than one hundred million Dollars
                 ($100,000,000) in the aggregate and per occurrence, naming AEF
                 and the Lenders as additional insureds thereunder, if such
                 insurance is then being customarily maintained (as determined
                 by AEF) by prudent satellite owners.

           (iv)  SATELLITE MANUFACTURER'S COVERAGE. The Customer shall cause, or
                 if the Customer is not the SPA Party, the Customer shall cause
                 the SPA Party to cause, the Satellite Manufacturer to procure
                 at its own expense and maintain in full force and effect, at
                 all times prior to the time when risk of loss of or damage to
                 the Satellite is transferred to the Customer, property damage
                 insurance on an "all risk" basis (with customary conditions and
                 exclusions), including coverage against damage or loss caused
                 by earth movement and flood, providing coverage for the
                 Satellite. The Customer shall cause the Satellite Manufacturer,
                 promptly upon obtaining the insurance required pursuant to the
                 immediately preceding sentence, to deliver to AEF suitable
                 evidence of such insurance.

       (c) COMMON TERMS. The Security Agent shall be named as the sole loss
           payee with respect to any insurance policies required to be
           maintained pursuant to Sections 6.06(a)(ii) and (b)(i) and (ii) to
           the extent that assets constituting Collateral are covered thereby
           and each of the Insured Parties shall be named as additional insureds
           in respect of the insurance policies required to be maintained
           pursuant to Sections 6.06(a)(ii) and (b)(i) and (ii), as their
           interests may appear. All policies of insurance required to be
           maintained pursuant to said Sections or otherwise procured by the
           Customer covering loss of or damage to any of the Customer's property
           shall provide that (i) there shall be no recourse against AEF any
           Lender or the Collateral for payment of premiums or other amounts
           with respect thereto, (ii) the insurers are required to provide AEF
           with at least thirty (30) days (or ten (10) days in the case of
           nonpayment of premiums) prior written notice of reduction in coverage
           or amount (other than a reduction in coverage or amount resulting
           from a payment thereunder), cancellation or non-renewal of any
           policy, and (iii) the proceeds of all policies shall be payable to
           the Insured Parties, pursuant to a first mortgagee endorsement,
           without contribution, as their interests may


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           appear. In addition, the Customer shall ensure that in all cases of
           policies of insurance in which the insurer fronts for reinsurers and
           the ceding insurer is not domiciled in Bermuda, Guernsey or a country
           listed in ANNEX 4, the Insured Parties shall have "cut-through"
           rights providing direct recovery of claims to the reinsurers under
           such policies of insurance. If the Customer fails or may fail to
           timely file any proof of loss, AEF or any Lender shall have the right
           to submit such proof of loss in the place of the Customer. Each such
           policy shall (i) waive any right of subrogation against the Insured
           Parties (and their respective officers, employees, agents and
           insurers), (ii) provide that the insurance be primary and not excess
           to or contributory to any insurance or self-insurance maintained by
           the Customer and (iii) waive any right of the insurers to any set-off
           or counterclaim or any other deduction (other than non-payment of
           premiums). If available on commercially reasonable terms (as
           determined by AEF), the Customer shall obtain a clause in or
           endorsement to the launch and initial operations policy(ies) and the
           in-orbit policies ensuring the availability of the benefits of such
           policies to the Lenders notwithstanding any statements, misstatements
           or other actions or omissions by the Customer or by Persons acting or
           purporting to act for or on behalf of the Customer. If such clause or
           endorsement is not so available, the Customer shall obtain for the
           benefit of the Lenders such other protection, if any, against such
           statements, misstatements or other actions or omissions by the
           Customer or such Persons as is then customarily provided to
           unaffiliated lenders in policies of insurance, or otherwise in
           secured satellite financings.

       (d) PREVIEW. The Customer shall furnish to AEF from time to time
           preliminary drafts of the launch and initial operations insurance
           policy(ies) and each in-orbit insurance policy required by this
           Section 6.06, together with the provisional names of the companies
           issuing such policy(ies) and (if requested by AEF) of the reinsurance
           carriers thereof, and their respective shares of the insurance and
           (if requested by AEF) reinsurance. Such drafts and information shall
           be furnished not later than the Conversion Request Date, in the case
           of the launch and initial operations insurance policy(ies) and, not
           less than six (6) months prior to the date that such insurance policy
           is required to be in effect, in the case of in-orbit insurance
           policies. The Customer shall furnish to AEF purportedly final copies
           of each such insurance policy not later than L minus (-) ninety (90)
           days, in the case of the launch and initial operations insurance
           policy(ies), and not less than three (3) months prior to the date it
           is required to be in effect, in the case of in-orbit insurance
           policies, and notice of all changes from such purported final copies
           promptly upon obtaining knowledge thereof.

       (e) BROKER AND ADVISOR UNDERTAKINGS

           (i)   The Customer shall cause an internationally recognized
                 insurance broker, approved by AEF, to deliver to AEF not later
                 than the Conversion Request Date an undertaking by such
                 insurance broker in favor of AEF and the Lenders, and
                 satisfactory in form and substance to AEF, to the effect that
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                 notify each of AEF and the Lenders prior to Launch if any
                 changes are made to the launch and initial operations insurance
                 policy(ies) from the copy(ies) thereof furnished under Section
                 6.06(d) and (B) shall on the day after Launch confirm in
                 writing to each of AEF and the Lenders that no changes were
                 made to such insurance policy(ies) from such copy through and
                 including the time of Launch.

           (ii)  The Customer shall deliver to AEF on the Conversion Request
                 Date (in the case of the launch and initial operations
                 policy(ies)) or three (3) months before the expiration of the
                 launch and initial operations insurance or any subsequent
                 in-orbit insurance operations (in the case of in-orbit
                 insurance policies) a certificate addressed to AEF and the
                 Lenders of such broker or (in the case of clause (D) below) an
                 internationally recognized insurance adviser appointed by AEF
                 (A) confirming that the insurance policy(ies) in respect of
                 such insurance are in full force and effect and shall incept at
                 the time of Launch (in the case of the launch and initial
                 operations policy(ies)) or the moment the launch and initial
                 operations insurance policy or the in-orbit insurance policy
                 then in effect (in the case of in-orbit insurance policies) is
                 due to expire, (B) confirming the names of the companies
                 issuing such policy(ies) and (if requested by AEF) the
                 reinsurance carriers thereof, and their respective shares of
                 the insurance and (if requested by AEF) reinsurance, (C)
                 confirming the amounts and expiration dates of such policy(ies)
                 and that the premium for such policy(ies) shall be payable by
                 the Customer in full no later than L minus (-) fifteen (15)
                 days (in the case of the launch and initial operations
                 policy(ies)) or no later than thirty (30) days before
                 attachment of risk (in the case of in-orbit insurance policies)
                 and (D) stating that in the opinion of such broker or advisor,
                 as the case may be, after due investigation, such policy(ies)
                 (x) comply in all material respects with the requirements of
                 this Section 6.06 and (y) are comparable in all material
                 respects with insurance carried by prudent and responsible
                 owners and operators of similar properties.

       (f) CLAIMS UNDER LAUNCH AND INITIAL OPERATIONS POLICIES AND UNDER
           IN-ORBIT POLICIES. The Customer shall promptly and simultaneously
           notify AEF and the Customer's insurance broker in writing of any loss
           covered by any insurance referred to in Section 6.06(b)(i) or (ii)
           and, upon obtaining knowledge thereof, of any potential Event of Loss
           and shall file a proof of loss with respect thereto with the insurers
           (with copies thereof sent simultaneously to AEF) as early as possible
           within the period allowed therefor in the related insurance policy
           (and in any event not later than the last date on which such proof of
           loss may be filed).

       (g) FINAL POLICIES. Promptly upon receipt thereof, the Customer shall
           deliver to AEF a duplicate, certified by an internationally
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           approved by AEF, of each policy of insurance required to be in effect
           hereunder.

       (h) CURE. In the event the Customer fails to take out or maintain, or
           fails to cause to be taken out or maintained, the full insurance
           coverage required by this Section 6.06, AEF or any Lender, as the
           case may be, upon thirty (30) days prior notice (unless the
           aforementioned insurance would lapse within such period, in which
           event notice shall be given as soon as reasonably possible) to the
           Customer of any such failure, may (but shall not be obligated to)
           take out the required policies of insurance and pay the premiums on
           the same. All amounts so advanced therefor by AEF or a Lender, as the
           case may be, shall be immediately reimbursed by the Customer to AEF
           or such Lender, as the case may be, and the Customer shall forthwith
           pay such amounts to AEF or such Lender, as the case may be, together
           with interest thereon at the Default Rate from the date so advanced.

       (i) COMMUNICATIONS. The Customer shall promptly furnish to AEF (copies of
           which AEF may furnish to any Lender) copies of all material
           communications between the Customer and any of its insurers or
           insurance broker concerning the launch and initial operations and the
           in-orbit insurance policies required by this Section 6.06, including,
           without limitation, all "letters of health" in respect of the
           Satellite.

1.067  PAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS. The Customer shall, and shall cause each other
       Relevant Company to, pay and discharge as the same shall become due and
       payable, all their respective obligations and liabilities including: (a)
       all tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon
       it or its income or profits, or on any of its properties or assets,
       unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate
       proceedings and adequate reserves are being maintained by the Customer or
       such other Relevant Company, as the case may be, in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in respect thereof, (b) all
       lawful claims which, if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon its
       property unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate
       proceedings and adequate reserves are being maintained by the Customer or
       such other Relevant Company, as the case may be, in accordance with
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in respect thereof, and (c) all
       Indebtedness of the Customer or such other Relevant Company, as the case
       may be, as and when due and payable but subject to any subordination
       provisions contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing such
       Indebtedness.

1.068  COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. The Customer shall comply, and shall cause each of
       its Subsidiaries and Affiliates party to any Satellite Contracts or Loan
       Documents to comply, in all material respects with all Requirements of
       Law applicable to it of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction
       over it or its business (including, without limitation, laws and
       regulations relating to employment retirement income security), except
       such as may be contested in good faith or as to which a bona fide dispute
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1.069  INSPECTION OF PROPERTY AND BOOKS AND RECORDS. The Customer shall maintain
       proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct
       entries in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
       consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and
       matters involving the assets and business of the Customer and any
       consolidated Subsidiaries. The Customer shall, following the Conversion
       Request Date, permit representatives of AEF and its authorized agents to
       visit and inspect any of their respective properties, to examine their
       respective organizational, financial and operating records and make
       copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, to discuss their respective
       affairs, finances and accounts with their respective directors, officers
       and employees, and to inspect and observe (subject to, and in accordance
       with, the Satellite Purchase Agreement) the construction of the Project,
       at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may
       be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Customer,
       PROVIDED that when an Event of Default exists AEF and its authorized
       agents may visit and inspect at the expense of the Customer such
       properties at any time during normal business hours and without advance
       notice.

6.10   ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS

       (a) The Customer shall, and shall cause each other Relevant Company (if
           any) to, upon and after the Conversion Commitment Date, conduct its
           operations and keep and maintain its property in compliance with all
           Environmental Laws, obtain and maintain in full force and effect all
           Environmental Permits for so long as is necessary for the operation
           of the Project and comply with all terms and conditions of such
           Environmental Permits.

       (b) Upon written request of AEF upon and after the Conversion Commitment
           Date, the Customer shall submit and cause each of its Subsidiaries to
           submit, to AEF, at the Customer's sole cost and expense at reasonable
           intervals, a report providing an update of the status of any
           environmental, health or safety compliance, hazard or liability issue
           identified in any notice or prior report required pursuant to this
           Section 6.10 and any other environmental, health or safety compliance
           obligation, remedial obligation or liability, that could,
           individually or in the aggregate, result in liability in excess of
           (i) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1A
           Customer or a Category 1B Customer five million Dollars ($5,000,000)
           (or its equivalent in another currency or other currencies) or more
           or (ii) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category
           1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer the
           amount of damages claimed is two million five hundred thousand
           Dollars ($2,500,000) (or its equivalent in another currency or other
           currencies) or more.

6.11   USE OF PROCEEDS

       (a) The Customer shall use the proceeds of the Tranche A Loans to fund
           scheduled, pre-launch progress payments due and payable under the
           Launch Services Agreement (other than the initial down payment
           referred to in Section

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           4.01(c)) and Finance Costs due hereunder as specified in the
           applicable Notice of Drawdown.

       (b) The Customer shall use the proceeds of the Tranche B Loan solely to
           refund the Tranche A Outstandings (including Tranche A Loans the
           proceeds of which have been applied to the payment of Finance Costs)
           on the Conversion Date, together with any ECA Guaranty Fees payable
           in respect of the Tranche B Loan.

       (c) None of the proceeds of any of the Loans shall be used to purchase or
           carry, or to reduce or retire or refinance any credit incurred to
           purchase or carry, any margin stock (within the meaning of
           Regulations U and X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
           System) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing
           or carrying any margin stock.

6.12   PROJECT MAINTENANCE. The Customer shall maintain and preserve the Project
       and all of its other properties necessary or useful in the proper conduct
       of its business in relation to the Project in good working order and
       condition and shall maintain, preserve and operate the Project in
       accordance with generally accepted practices for similar projects.

6.13   TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPROVALS. The Customer shall furnish to AEF, on the
       In-Orbit Commissioning Date, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of
       the Customer to the effect that all international, national and local (if
       any) Telecommunications Approvals that are necessary or, in the
       reasonable opinion of AEF, desirable for the maintenance and operation of
       the Satellite and the TTC&M Facilities and the Project in general have
       been obtained and are in full force and effect and unrestricted and
       unconditional, together with certified copies of all such approvals.

6.14   GOVERNMENT APPROVALS. The Customer shall maintain in full force and
       effect all Telecommunications Approvals, and all amendments thereto, and
       shall maintain (or cause to be maintained) in full force and effect all
       other Government Approvals that are necessary under applicable laws and
       regulations in connection with (a) the due execution, delivery and
       performance by the Customer, or any Affiliate thereof of its obligations,
       and the exercise from time to time of its rights, under the Loan
       Documents, the Satellite Contracts and any other material Contract
       entered into from time to time relating to the Project then in effect,
       (b) the construction of the Satellite, the TTC&M Facilities and related
       equipment, (c) the Launch of the Satellite and (d) the operation and
       maintenance of the Satellite, the TTC&M Facilities and related equipment.
       No such Government Approval shall be subject to any restriction,
       condition, limitation or other provision that could reasonably be
       expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.15   RATE CONTRACTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall obtain
       and maintain in full force and effect from a date not later than the
       Conversion Date one or more Rate Contracts with one or more
       counterparties acceptable to AEF which effectively enable

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       the Customer (in a manner reasonably satisfactory to AEF (with due
       consideration to cost, availability and duration of such Rate Contracts),
       taking into account the currency of denomination of all Qualified Lease
       Agreements) to protect itself against fluctuations in interest rates and
       foreign exchange rates relating to Loans hereunder and the Project
       Financing.

6.16   OPERATIONAL CONTROL AND RE-EXPORT. The Customer shall, at the request of
       AEF or the Security Agent, promptly deliver to AEF or the Security Agent
       (whichever has made the request):

       (a) all access codes and command codes to the Satellite, subject to
           having obtained any requisite Government Approvals for such delivery,
           necessary to facilitate access to, and the command, control and
           operation of, the Satellite, and to activate the transponders
           thereon;

       (b) evidence in writing that the Satellite Manufacturer and, if
           applicable, the Lessees have undertaken to

           (i)   deliver immediately to AEF or the Security Agent (as the case
                 may be), upon notification by AEF or the Security Agent that an
                 Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, all access
                 codes and command codes to the Satellite, subject to having
                 obtained any requisite Government Approvals for such delivery,
                 necessary to facilitate access to, and the command, control and
                 operation of, the Satellite, and to activate the transponders
                 thereon;

           (ii)  take all steps necessary, upon notification by AEF or the
                 Security Agent that an Event of Default has occurred and is
                 continuing, to obtain the Government Approvals required to
                 effect any transfer of operational control over the Satellite
                 and related technical data (including any license approving the
                 export or re-export of the Satellite to any Person as
                 designated by AEF or the Security Agent); and

           (iii) deliver to AEF and the Security Agent written evidence of the
                 issuance of the Government Approvals once such Government
                 Approvals have been obtained.

       The Customer hereby agrees, and shall cause the Satellite Manufacturer
       (and, if applicable, the Lessees and other lessees of transponders on the
       Satellite) to agree, not to change any access codes or command codes to
       the Satellite, at any time that a Default or Event of Default exists
       without promptly furnishing to AEF and the Security Agent the new access
       codes and command codes, once such access codes or command codes have
       been delivered to AEF or the Security Agent pursuant to this Section
       6.16.

6.17   PERFORMANCE OF LOAN DOCUMENTS. The Customer shall perform and observe all
       of its covenants and agreements contained in the Loan Documents to which
       it is a party, shall maintain each of the Loan Documents in full force
       and effect and shall take all

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       reasonable action to prevent the termination of any such Loan Document in
       accordance with the terms thereof (other than by reason of the stated
       expiration thereof or default by any other party thereto) or otherwise
       and to enforce each covenant or obligation of such Loan Document in
       accordance with its terms (unless the failure to enforce any such
       covenant or obligation, in the reasonable opinion of AEF, could not
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) and shall take
       all such action to that end as from time to time may be reasonably
       requested by AEF.

6.18   PERFORMANCE OF SATELLITE CONTRACTS. The Customer shall, or if the
       Customer is not the SPA Party, the LSA Party or the TTC&M Party, the
       Customer shall cause the SPA Party, the LSA Party and the TTC&M Party to:
       (a) cause the Project to be duly constructed and completed in accordance
       with the Satellite Contracts to which it is a party, (b) on and after the
       Conversion Commitment Date, perform and observe all of its covenants and
       agreements contained in the Satellite Contracts to which it is a party,
       (c) maintain each of the Satellite Contracts to which it is a party in
       full force and effect and take all reasonable action to prevent the
       termination of any such Satellite Contract in accordance with the terms
       thereof (other than by reason of the stated expiration thereof or default
       by any other party thereto) or otherwise and (d) to enforce each covenant
       or obligation of such Satellite Contract to which it is a party in
       accordance with its terms (unless the failure to enforce any such
       covenant or obligation, in the reasonable opinion of AEF, could not
       reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) and shall take
       all such action to that end as from time to time on and after the
       Conversion Commitment Date may be reasonably requested by AEF.

6.19   PERFORMANCE OF QUALIFIED LEASE AGREEMENTS. The Customer shall (a) on and
       after the Conversion Commitment Date, perform and observe all of its
       covenants and agreements contained in the Qualified Lease Agreements to
       which it is party; and (b) enforce each covenant or obligation of such
       Qualified Lease Agreement to which it is a party in accordance with its
       terms (unless the failure to enforce any such covenant or obligation, in
       the reasonable opinion of AEF, could not reasonably be expected to have a
       Material Adverse Effect) and shall take all such action to that end as
       from time to time on and after the Conversion Commitment Date may be
       reasonably requested by AEF.

6.20   ORBITAL POSITION. The Satellite shall be maintained in the orbital
       position assigned to it by the Telecommunications Authority pursuant to
       the relevant Telecommunications Approval at eighty degrees West Longitude
       (80(degree) W.L.).

6.21   EXPORT LICENSE. The Customer shall cause, or if the Customer is not the
       SPA Party the Customer shall cause the SPA Party to cause, the Satellite
       Manufacturer to maintain in full force and effect all Export Licenses, if
       required by applicable law, in accordance with the terms of the Satellite
       Purchase Agreement.

6.22   IN-ORBIT COMMISSIONING. The Customer shall deliver to AEF the certificate
       referred to in the definition of "In-Orbit Commissioning Date" promptly
       upon completion of

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       the initial in-orbit tests on the Satellite in accordance with the
       Satellite Contract and entry of the Satellite into commercial service.

6.23   SATELLITE OPERATIONAL REPORTS. The Customer shall provide or shall cause
       the provider of tracking, telemetry, control and monitoring of the
       Satellite to provide to AEF no less than annually, commencing twelve (12)
       months after the date of Launch, and, in addition, at any time upon the
       reasonable request of AEF, a certificate of a Responsible Officer with
       regard to the operational status of the Satellite, including such
       information as the projected solar array life based on the total
       Satellite power requirements, projected battery life based on total
       Satellite power requirements, projected Satellite life, information
       concerning whether any transponder spares or preemptible transponders on
       the Satellite have been employed and such other information pertinent to
       the operation of the Satellite and the transponders thereon as AEF may
       reasonably request.

6.24   TRANSPONDER LEASE AGREEMENTS. Except to the extent that the Customer is
       required hereunder to enter into Qualified Lease Agreements, the Customer
       may enter into any other agreement for the lease of, or provision of
       communications services on, transponders or capacity on the Satellite,
       PROVIDED that each such agreement (a) does not contain provisions in the
       nature of indemnities or other provisions for the payment by the Customer
       of termination fees, costs or damages (except for customary credits or
       refunds for failure to provide services according to minimum performance
       specifications not in excess of lease or use payments received under such
       contracts), (b) except for those agreements excluded from the definition
       of "Transponder Lease Agreements", includes an express acknowledgment by
       the lessee that any rights of quiet enjoyment and any other rights of the
       lessee shall be in all respects subject and subordinate to the rights of
       the Security Agent in the Collateral on terms and conditions satisfactory
       to the Security Agent and (c) requires performance by the Customer that
       could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and
       PROVIDED FURTHER that the Customer shall not amend, supplement or modify
       any such agreement if the result would be to contravene the provisions of
       clause (a), (b) or (c) above.

6.25   FURTHER ASSURANCES

       (a) The Customer shall ensure that all written information, exhibits and
           reports furnished to AEF do not and will not contain any untrue
           statement by the Customer or any Affiliate thereof of a material fact
           and do not and will not omit, on the part of the Customer or any such
           Affiliate, to state any material fact or any fact necessary to make
           the statements contained therein not misleading in light of the
           circumstances in which made, and will promptly disclose to AEF and
           correct any defect or error that may be discovered therein or in any
           of the Loan Documents or any of the Satellite Contracts or in the
           execution, acknowledgment or recordation thereof.

       (b) The Customer shall as of and at all times after the Conversion Date
           take or cause to be taken all action required or desirable to
           maintain and preserve the

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           Liens of the Collateral Documents and the perfection and priority
           thereof required by the terms of this Agreement.

       (c) Promptly upon written request by AEF, the Customer shall (and shall
           cause each of its Subsidiaries to and use its reasonable efforts to
           cause the LSA Party, the SPA Party, the TTC&M Party or any Affiliate
           of any thereof to) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record,
           re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register, any and all such
           further acts, deeds, conveyances, security agreements, mortgages,
           assignments, estoppel certificates, legal opinions, consents,
           financing statements and continuations thereof, termination
           statements, notices of assignment, transfers, certificates,
           assurances and other instruments as AEF may reasonably require from
           time to time in order (i) to carry out more effectively the purposes
           of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) to subject to the
           Liens created by any of the Collateral Documents any of the
           properties, rights or interests covered by any of the Collateral
           Documents, (iii) to perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness
           and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and the Liens
           intended to be created thereby and (iv) to better assure, convey,
           grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm to AEF the
           rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to AEF
           under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed in
           connection therewith.

6.26   PRIORITIES

       (a) The Customer hereby agrees that (i) all Indebtedness owing by it to
           any of its Affiliates shall be Subordinated Indebtedness, (ii) all
           amounts in respect of Indebtedness owing by it to any of its
           Affiliates shall be paid only out of Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow
           not theretofore used for any other purpose permitted by any of this
           Section 6.26 or Section 7.07, 7.14, 7.15, 11.05 or 13.04 and (iii) if
           a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any
           amounts whatsoever due and owing by the Customer to any Affiliate
           shall be paid only out of Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow not
           theretofore used for any other purpose permitted by any of this
           Section 6.26 or Section 7.07, 7.14, 7.15, 11.05 or 13.04.

       (b) If the Customer has been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a
           Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, it shall not, and shall
           not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make any Restricted Payment at
           any time if a Default or Event of Default then exists or would
           immediately result therefrom.


                          SECTION 7. NEGATIVE COVENANTS

The Customer hereby covenants and agrees as follows, from and after the date
hereof and so long as AEF shall have any Commitment hereunder or any Loan or
other amount payable hereunder shall remain unpaid, unless AEF waives compliance
in writing:


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1.071  LIMITATION ON LIENS. The Customer shall not, from and after the date of
       execution of any Collateral Document, directly or indirectly, make,
       create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon or with respect to
       any part of the Collateral, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or
       offer or agree to do so, other than the following ("PERMITTED LIENS"):

       (a) any Lien in favor of AEF or the Security Agent created under any
           Collateral Document, PROVIDED that, to the extent that the Security
           Agent is acting on behalf of the Project Agent or the Project
           Lenders, on and after the Conversion Date, such Liens equally and
           ratably secure the obligations described under the Collateral
           Documents on a pari passu basis in accordance with the terms of the
           Intercreditor Agreement;

       (b) Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges that
           are not delinquent or remain payable without penalty, or to the
           extent that non-payment thereof is permitted by Section 6.07,
           PROVIDED that no Notice of Lien has been filed or recorded;

       (c) carriers', warehousemen's, mechanics', landlords', materialmen's,
           repairmen's or other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of
           business that are not delinquent or remain payable without penalty;

       (d) Liens on the property of the Customer incurred, or pledges or
           deposits required, in connection with workmen's compensation,
           unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;

       (e) Liens on the property of the Customer securing (i) the performance of
           bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), leases or
           statutory obligations, (ii) obligations on surety and appeal bonds
           and (iii) other obligations of a like nature, provided all such Liens
           and obligations referred to in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and
           (iii) are incurred in the ordinary course of business and, in the
           aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to cause a Material
           Adverse Effect; and

       (f) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances
           incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate,
           are not substantial in amount, and that do not in any case materially
           detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere
           with the ordinary conduct of the businesses of the Customer.

1.072  DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL. The Customer shall not, from and after the
       date that any Collateral Document is executed, directly or indirectly,
       sell, assign, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of (whether in
       one or a series of transactions) any Collateral or enter into any
       agreement to do any of the foregoing except that (i) the Customer may
       sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of Collateral having an aggregate
       fair market value not exceeding one million Dollars ($1,000,000) in any
       of its fiscal years and (ii) so long as the Customer has paid or prepaid
       in full the principal of and

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       interest on the Loans and all other amounts owing by it under the Loan
       Documents, or has paid or prepaid in part such principal and interest
       with respect to that portion of the Satellite that has suffered a Partial
       Failure it may transfer that portion of the Collateral for which such
       payment or prepayment has been made to insurers pursuant to their salvage
       rights and may authorize AE to negotiate such transfer pursuant to the
       Launch Services Agreement.

1.073  DISPOSITION OF ASSETS OTHER THAN COLLATERAL. If the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a
       Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall not, and shall not permit any
       other member of the Customer Group to, from and after the Conversion
       Commitment Date, directly or indirectly, sell, assign, lease (as lessor),
       convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of (whether in one or a series of
       transactions) its assets, business or property (other than Collateral)
       (including (x) accounts and notes receivable (with or without recourse)
       and (y) equipment sale and leaseback transactions but excluding (i) any
       sale, assignment, transfer, exchanges or other disposition of any
       inventory sold or disposed of in the ordinary course of business and on
       ordinary business terms, (ii) the trade-in or other disposition of
       machinery or equipment in connection with the acquisition of other
       similar machinery or equipment and (iii) the sale or other disposition of
       obsolete, worn-out or other non-productive properties having a value not
       exceeding one million five hundred thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) in the
       aggregate in any fiscal year of the Customer) or enter into any agreement
       to do any of the foregoing except with respect to sales, transfers or
       other dispositions of assets in the ordinary course of business or
       pursuant to bona fide sale and leaseback (and substantially similar)
       financings ("PERMITTED DISPOSITIONS") that (A) do not exceed in the
       aggregate two percent (2%) of the total assets of the Customer Group in
       any fiscal year, (B) together with all such prior Permitted Dispositions,
       do not exceed in the aggregate five percent (5%) of the total assets of
       the Customer Group at the time of such action or (C) with respect to any
       Permitted Dispositions other than sale and leaseback transactions, do not
       have a fair market value in excess of one million Dollars ($1,000,000)
       per item; PROVIDED that, in each case, immediately after giving effect to
       any such Permitted Disposition, no Default or Event of Default would
       exist.

1.074  TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES. The Customer shall not transfer, sell,
       assign or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any assets to any
       Affiliate of the Customer or of any Subsidiary or enter into any loan,
       guarantee or other transaction, directly or indirectly, with any
       Affiliate of the Customer or of any Subsidiary except as contemplated by
       this Agreement or in the ordinary course of business and pursuant to the
       reasonable requirements of the business of the Customer and upon fair and
       reasonable terms no less favorable to the Customer than would obtain in a
       comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of the
       Customer.

1.075  NOTICE OF INDEBTEDNESS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be
       a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer,
       the Customer shall not, on or after the Conversion Commitment Date,
       create, incur, assume, purchase, repurchase, guaranty, suffer to exist,
       or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect
       to, any Indebtedness if, as a result

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       thereof the aggregate principal amount of its Indebtedness increases by
       ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) or more, unless the Customer shall have
       provided to AEF (a) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the
       Customer stating that no Default or Event of Default shall occur
       immediately as a result of the incurrence of such Indebtedness and (b) if
       requested by AEF, a certificate of such Responsible Officer with
       calculations in reasonable detail, and such other evidence as AEF may
       request, demonstrating that no Default or Event of Default shall occur
       immediately as a result of the incurrence of such Indebtedness.

1.076  LEASE OBLIGATIONS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall not
       create or suffer to exist any obligations for the payment of rent for any
       property under lease or agreement to lease under which the Customer is
       the lessee, except for:

       (a) leases in existence on the Closing Date and any renewal, extension or
           refinancing thereof;

       (b) any leases entered into in the ordinary course of business of the
           Customer in furtherance of the Project; and

       (c) in the case that the Customer shall have been determined to be a
           Category 2 Customer, leases to finance the acquisition of fixed
           assets, PROVIDED that the aggregate annual rental payments for all
           such leases shall not exceed four million Dollars ($4,000,000) (or
           its equivalent in another currency or other currencies).

1.077  CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1C Customer, Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, the
       Customer shall not purchase any assets other than the purchase of (a)
       fixed assets and capital equipment that are expressly contemplated by and
       budgeted for under the Business Plan of the Customer then in effect in
       the case of a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer or the Capex
       Budget, if any, then in effect in the case of a Category 1C Customer, (b)
       Permitted Investments and (c) assets other than those permitted under
       clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 7.07 in an aggregate amount not to
       exceed (i) fifteen million Dollars ($15,000,000) per annum (or its
       equivalent in another currency or other currencies) in the case that the
       Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer or ten
       million Dollars ($10,000,000) per annum (or its equivalent in another
       currency or other currencies) in the case that the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 2 Customer or seven million five hundred
       thousand Dollars ($7,500,000) per annum (or its equivalent in another
       currency or other currencies) in the case that the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 3 Customer PLUS (ii) Unrestricted Excess
       Cash Flow not theretofore used for any other purpose permitted by any of
       this Section 7.07 or Section 6.26, 7.14, 7.15, 11.05 or 13.04.

1.078  CHANGE IN STRUCTURE; CONSOLIDATIONS AND MERGERS. The Customer shall not,
       (a) make any changes in its capital structure (including, without
       limitation, in the terms

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       of its outstanding stock or other equity interests), and shall not permit
       any change in the composition of its ownership, and shall not amend its
       certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association or
       other organizational documents if, as a result, there could reasonably be
       expected to occur a Material Adverse Effect or (b) directly or
       indirectly, merge or consolidate with any other Person, or enter into any
       agreement to so merge or consolidate, except, if the Customer has been
       determined to be a Category 1 Customer, with respect to the following, so
       long as if immediately after giving effect thereto no Default or Event of
       Default would exist:

       (i) any Subsidiary of the Customer may merge, consolidate or combine with
           or into, or transfer assets to the Customer, PROVIDED that the
           Customer shall be the continuing or surviving organization;

      (ii) the Customer may merge, consolidate or combine with another entity
           if the Customer is the organization surviving the merger; and

     (iii) the Customer may merge, consolidate or combine with or into, or
           transfer all or substantially all of its assets to, another entity
           that, in the determination of AEF, has an equivalent or better credit
           standing than the Customer, PROVIDED that such other entity fully
           assumes all obligations of the Customer hereunder and under the other
           Loan Documents and the Satellite Contracts to which the Customer is a
           party and agrees to fully comply with all covenants and obligations
           of the customer hereunder and thereunder, to the satisfaction of AEF.

1.079  ACCOUNTING CHANGES. The Customer shall not make any significant change in
       accounting treatment and reporting practices, except as permitted by
       Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, PROVIDED that the Customer
       shall notify AEF of any such change in accounting treatment or reporting
       practices pursuant to the terms of Section 6.03, and upon receipt of such
       notice AEF may, in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, require
       the Customer to deliver the financial statements required to be delivered
       pursuant to Section 6.01 calculated in accordance with Generally Accepted
       Accounting Principles in effect before such change. The Customer shall,
       at the time that it is required to deliver to AEF any information
       relevant to the calculation of any amount hereunder to be determined in
       accordance with Specified GAAP, notify AEF of any change in Generally
       Accepted Accounting Principles after the date hereof that is relevant to
       such calculation, and upon receipt of such notice AEF may, in its
       discretion, but shall not be obligated to, require the recalculation of
       the covenants contained herein and the tests to be applied pursuant to
       the Annexes hereto.

7.10   BUSINESS. The Customer shall not engage in any activities contrary to
       applicable laws or regulations and, if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer, or any
       other Customer that has formed a special purpose vehicle pursuant to
       Section 9.04, the Customer shall not engage in any business other than a
       business described in its Business Plan.


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7.11   MILITARY ACTIVITIES. The Customer shall ensure that the use and operation
       of the Satellite are not substantially for or on behalf of any
       governmental, intergovernmental or non-governmental defense or military
       agency or substantially for non-commercial communications in support of
       the operations or activities of the military, national security or armed
       forces of any country or any inter-governmental or non-governmental
       entity.

7.12   LOAN DOCUMENTS

       The Customer shall not (i) cancel or terminate any of the Loan Documents
       to which it is a party or consent to or accept any cancellation or
       termination thereof (for convenience, default or otherwise), (ii) sell,
       assign or otherwise transfer or dispose of (by operation of law or
       otherwise) any part of its interest in any of the Loan Documents or
       consent (or agree to consent) to any Person party to the Loan Documents
       selling, assigning or otherwise transferring or disposing of any part of
       its interest in any of the Loan Documents, (iii) petition, request or
       take any other legal or administrative action that seeks or may
       reasonably be expected to rescind, terminate or suspend any of the Loan
       Documents or amend or modify any of the Loan Documents or (iv) amend,
       supplement or modify any of the Loan Documents.

7.13   SATELLITE CONTRACTS; QUALIFIED LEASE AGREEMENTS

       (a) The Customer shall not, on or after the Conversion Commitment Date,
           (i) cancel or terminate any of the Satellite Contracts to which it is
           a party or consent to or accept any cancellation or termination
           thereof (for convenience, default or otherwise), (ii) sell, assign or
           otherwise transfer or dispose of (by operation of law or otherwise)
           any part of its interest in any of the Satellite Contracts or consent
           (or agree to consent) to any Person party to the Satellite Contracts
           to sell, assign or otherwise transfer or dispose of any part of its
           interest in any of the Satellite Contracts, (iii) waive any default
           under or breach of any of the Satellite Contracts or waive, fail to
           enforce, forgive or release any right, interest or entitlement,
           howsoever arising, under or in respect of any of the Satellite
           Contracts or exercise any election thereunder, (iv) petition, request
           or take any other legal or administrative action that seeks to or may
           reasonably be expected to rescind, terminate or suspend any of the
           Satellite Contracts or amend or modify any of the Satellite
           Contracts, (v) amend, supplement or modify the Satellite Purchase
           Agreement if the result would be to affect adversely the guarantees
           or warranties thereunder or otherwise to cause a Material Adverse
           Effect or enter into any change order if the cost of such change
           order exceeds five percent (5%) of the purchase price of the
           Satellite, PROVIDED that such change order shall not adversely affect
           the in-orbit performance of the Satellite or performance warranties
           under the Satellite Purchase Agreement and such change order could
           not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, or
           (vi) amend, supplement or modify the Launch Services Agreement or the
           TTC&M Contract if the result would be to adversely affect the
           guarantees or warranties thereunder or otherwise to cause a Material
           Adverse Effect.

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       (b) The Customer shall not, on or after the Conversion Commitment Date,
           (i) cancel or terminate, or exercise any preemption under, any of the
           Qualified Lease Agreements to which it is a party or consent to or
           accept any cancellation or termination thereof (for convenience,
           default or otherwise), (ii) sell, assign or otherwise transfer or
           dispose of (by operation of law or otherwise) any part of its
           interest in any of the Qualified Lease Agreements or consent (or
           agree to consent) to any Persons party to the Qualified Lease
           Agreements to sell, assign or otherwise transfer or dispose of any
           part of its interest in any of the Qualified Lease Agreements, (iii)
           waive any default under or breach of any of the Qualified Lease
           Agreements or waive, fail to enforce, forgive or release any right,
           interest or entitlement, howsoever arising, under or in respect of
           any of the Qualified Lease Agreements or exercise any election
           thereunder, (iv) petition, request or take any other legal or
           administrative action that seeks to or may reasonably be expected to
           rescind, terminate or suspend any of the Qualified Lease Agreements
           or amend or modify any of the Qualified Lease Agreements, or (v)
           amend, supplement or modify the Qualified Lease Agreements if the
           result would be to cause a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the
           Customer may take any action described in this Section 7.13(b) with
           respect to any Qualified Lease Agreement on any date if, after
           excluding such Qualified Lease Agreement from the relevant
           calculations, the Customer would satisfy the conditions and covenants
           set forth in Sections 11.04 and 11.06 (if the Customer shall have
           been determined to be a Category 1C Customer) or Sections
           12.01(b)(xii), 12.02 and 12.04(b) (if the Customer shall have been
           determined to be a Category 2 Customer) on such date on a pro forma
           basis (and, after taking any such action, such Qualified Lease
           Agreement shall cease to be a Qualified Lease Agreement for all
           purposes hereof).

7.14   LOANS, DEPOSITS AND INVESTMENTS. If the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a Category 2 Customer or a
       Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall not, directly or indirectly,
       purchase or acquire, or make any commitment for, any capital stock,
       equity interest, obligations or other securities of or any interest in,
       or make any advance, loan, extension of credit or capital contribution to
       or any other investment in, any Person ("INVESTMENTS") except for the
       following ("PERMITTED INVESTMENTS"): (a) investments in Cash Equivalents;
       (b) extensions of credit for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days in
       the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the
       sale or lease of goods or services in the ordinary course of business,
       (c) if no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom,
       (i) loans or extensions of credit to Affiliates of the Customer, which
       shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand Dollars ($2,500,000)
       (or its equivalent in another currency or other currencies) in an
       aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding, (ii) loans or
       extensions of credit to key management employees of the Customer; which
       shall not exceed one million two hundred and fifty thousand Dollars
       ($1,250,000) (or its equivalent in another currency or other currencies)
       in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding and (iii) if
       the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer,
       Investments made out of

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       Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow not theretofore used for any other purpose
       permitted by any of this Section 7.14 or Section 6.26, 7.07, 7.15 or
       11.05.

7.15   SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS. Neither the Customer nor any of its
       Subsidiaries shall purchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire for
       value, or set apart any money for a sinking, defeasance or other
       analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other
       acquisition of, or make any voluntary payment or prepayment of the
       principal of or interest on, or any other amount owing in respect of, any
       Subordinated Indebtedness, except for (a) regularly scheduled payments of
       principal and interest in respect thereof required pursuant to the
       instruments evidencing such Subordinated Indebtedness, (b) if the
       Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1 Customer,
       voluntary payments and prepayments of principal of, or interest on, such
       Subordinated Indebtedness, PROVIDED that if the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1C Customer, any such voluntary payment or
       prepayment shall be paid only out of Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow not
       theretofore used for any other purpose permitted by any of this Section
       7.15 or Section 6.26, 7.07, 7.14, 11.05 or 13.04. The Customer shall not
       amend, supplement or modify any instrument or agreement evidencing or
       governing any Subordinated Indebtedness.


                          SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT

1.081  EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Any of the following events shall constitute an "EVENT
       OF DEFAULT":

       (a) NON-PAYMENT. (i) The Customer fails to pay any principal of or
           interest on any Loan within three (3) Business Days of the date when
           due, (ii) the Customer fails to pay any fees or any other amount
           payable by it to AEF hereunder, other than pursuant to Section
           2.05(b), or pursuant to any other Loan Document within five (5)
           Business Days of the date when due or (iii) the Customer fails to pay
           any amount payable by it to AEF pursuant to Section 2.05(b) hereunder
           on the date when due; or

       (b) REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY. Any representation or warranty by the
           Customer in this Agreement shall prove to have been incorrect in any
           material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made, PROVIDED
           that, except in the case of the representations or warranties
           contained in Sections 5.04, 5.06, 5.15 and 5.16 of this Agreement, if
           susceptible of cure within such period and the Customer is diligently
           proceeding with such cure, the fact, circumstance or condition giving
           rise to such incorrect representation or warranty is not cured within
           thirty (30) days after the Customer has knowledge that such
           representation or warranty was incorrect; or

       (c) COVENANTS. (i) The Customer fails to perform any covenant contained
           in this Agreement required to be performed by it, PROVIDED that,
           except for the covenants contained in ANNEXES 1, 2 AND 3, as
           applicable, and any of Sections 6.03(a), 6.04(a), 7.01 (if and to the
           extent resulting from any voluntary action

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           or inaction by the Customer), 7.02, 7.06, 7.07, 7.08, 7.11, 7.12,
           7.13 and 7.15, such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of
           thirty (30) or more days after the Customer has knowledge of such
           failure and such covenant is capable of being cured within such
           period and the Customer is diligently proceeding with such cure; or

       (d) CROSS-ACCELERATION. If the Customer shall have been determined to be
           a Category 1A Customer, the maturity of any Indebtedness under any of
           the Project Financing Agreements, or any other Indebtedness or
           Contingent Obligation having an aggregate principal amount of more
           than thirty million Dollars ($30,000,000) (or its equivalent in
           another currency or other currencies) of a Relevant Company shall
           have been accelerated, in whole or in part, or shall have been
           required to be prepaid prior to the stated maturity thereof (other
           than pursuant to a regularly scheduled prepayment or a redemption or
           a mandatory prepayment provision that is not comparable in effect to
           an acceleration resulting from an event of default), in accordance
           with the provisions of any agreement evidencing, providing for the
           creation of or concerning the same, PROVIDED, subject to the further
           proviso set forth herein, that this Section 8.01(d) shall not apply
           to Indebtedness of any Relevant Company to AEF under any other
           customer loan agreement if the Customer, pursuant to the terms and
           conditions of such Indebtedness, shall have been determined to be in
           any other Customer Category than that applicable to the Customer
           pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and PROVIDED FURTHER that if
           the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1A Customer
           and (x) certifies to AEF, attaching certified copies of all relevant
           documentation, that it is not subject to cross-acceleration
           provisions in any Comparable Financing Transaction to which it is
           party, this Section 8.01(d) shall not apply to any Relevant Company
           or (y) certifies to AEF, attaching certified copies of relevant
           provisions, that pursuant to any Comparable Financing Transaction to
           which it is party the Customer is subject to cross-acceleration
           provisions not substantially similar to this Section 8.01(d), such
           other cross-acceleration provisions shall be deemed to be set forth
           in this Agreement in the place of this Section 8.01(d); or

       (e) CROSS-DEFAULT.

           (i)   If the Customer shall have been determined to be in any
                 Customer Category other than a Category 1A Customer and (A) any
                 Relevant Company fails to make any payment in respect of the
                 Project Financing Agreements, or any of its other Indebtedness
                 or Contingent Obligations having an aggregate principal amount
                 of more than:

                 (1) fifteen million Dollars ($15,000,000) (or its equivalent in
                     another currency or other currencies) if the Customer shall
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                 (2) five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or its equivalent in
                     another currency or other currencies) if the Customer shall
                     have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, Category
                     2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer;

                 when such principal amount is due (whether by scheduled
                 maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or
                 otherwise) and, if the Customer shall have been determined to
                 be a Category 1B Customer or a Category 1C Customer, such
                 failure continues after the giving of any notice and/or the
                 lapse of any applicable grace or notice period, if any,
                 specified in the agreement relating thereto or (B) any Relevant
                 Company fails to perform or observe any other condition or
                 covenant or any other event shall occur or condition exist
                 under the Project Financing Agreements or any other agreement
                 or instrument relating to any Indebtedness or Contingent
                 Obligations having an aggregate principal amount of more than:

                 (1) fifteen million Dollars ($15,000,000) (or its equivalent in
                     another currency or other currencies) if the Customer shall
                     have been determined to be a Category 1B Customer; or

                 (2) five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or its equivalent in
                     another currency or other currencies) if the Customer shall
                     have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, a
                     Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer;

                 if (x) the effect of such event or condition is to cause such
                 Indebtedness to be declared due and payable, or to permit the
                 holder or holders of such Indebtedness or beneficiary or
                 beneficiaries of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on
                 behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or
                 beneficiaries) to declare such Indebtedness to be due and
                 payable, prior to its stated maturity, or to cause such
                 Contingent Obligations to become due and payable, and (y) if
                 the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1B
                 Customer or a Category 1C Customer, such event or condition
                 continues after the giving of any notice and/or the lapse of
                 any applicable grace or notice period, if any, specified in the
                 agreement relating thereto, PROVIDED that this Section
                 8.01(e)(i) shall not apply to the Indebtedness of any Relevant
                 Company (or any Affiliate thereof) under any other customer
                 loan agreement entered into with AEF and PROVIDED FURTHER that
                 (x) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category
                 1B Customer and (aa) is not subject to cross-default provisions
                 in any Comparable Financing Transaction to which it is party as
                 evidenced by a certificate of the Customer to that effect
                 addressed to AEF, accompanied by certified copies of the
                 relevant documentation, this Section 8.01(e)(i) shall not apply
                 to any Relevant Company or (bb) pursuant to any Comparable
                 Financing Transaction to which it is party the Customer is
                 subject to cross-default provisions not substantially similar
                 to this Section 8.01(e)(i) as evidenced by a certificate of the
                 Customer to that effect addressed to

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                 AEF and accompanied by certified copies of the relevant
                 provisions, such other cross-default provisions shall be deemed
                 to be set forth in this Agreement in the place of this Section
                 8.01(e)(i) and (y) if the Customer shall have been determined
                 to be a Category 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer and is
                 subject to cross-default provisions in any Comparable Financing
                 Transaction that are materially more restrictive than this
                 Section 8.01(e)(i), such other cross-default provisions shall
                 be deemed to be set forth herein in the place of this Section
                 8.01(e)(i); or

           (ii)  If the Customer or an Affiliate thereof (A) fails to make any
                 payment in respect of a loan of the Customer or such Affiliate
                 under a customer loan agreement entered into with AEF, under
                 which the Customer or such Affiliate has the same customer
                 category as the Customer Category for the Customer hereunder,
                 when such amount is due (whether by scheduled maturity,
                 required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise) and, if
                 the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1B
                 Customer or a Category 1C Customer, such failure continues
                 after the giving of any required notice and the lapse of any
                 applicable grace or notice period, if any, specified in such
                 customer loan agreement or (B) fails to perform or observe any
                 other condition or covenant or any other event shall occur or
                 condition exist under any such customer loan agreement if (x)
                 the effect of such event or condition is to cause such loan to
                 be declared due and payable, or to permit the holder or holders
                 of such loan or beneficiary or beneficiaries of such loan (or a
                 trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or
                 beneficiary or beneficiaries) to declare such loan to be due
                 and payable, prior to its stated maturity, and (y) if the
                 Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1B
                 Customer or a Category 1C Customer, such event or condition
                 continues after the giving of any required notice and the lapse
                 of any applicable grace or notice period, if any, specified in
                 such customer loan agreement; or

       (f) BANKRUPTCY OR INSOLVENCY. Any Relevant Company (i) becomes insolvent
           or generally fails to pay, or admits in writing its inability to pay,
           its debts as they become due, subject to applicable grace periods, if
           any, whether at stated maturity or otherwise, (ii) voluntarily ceases
           to conduct its business in the ordinary course, (iii) commences any
           Insolvency Proceeding or files any petition or answer in any
           Insolvency Proceeding, (iv) acquiesces in the appointment of, or the
           taking of possession by, a receiver, trustee, custodian or liquidator
           for itself or a substantial portion of its property, assets or
           business or effects a plan or other arrangement with its creditors or
           (v) admits the material allegations of a petition filed against it in
           any Insolvency Proceeding; or

       (g) INVOLUNTARY PROCEEDINGS. Any involuntary Insolvency Proceeding is
           commenced or filed against any Relevant Company or any writ,
           judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process is
           issued or levied against

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           a substantial part of any Relevant Company assets and any such
           proceedings or petition shall not be dismissed, or such writ,
           judgment, warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall
           not be released, vacated or fully bonded, within ninety (90) days
           after commencement, filing or levy; or

       (h) MONETARY JUDGMENTS. One or more final judgments, orders or decrees
           shall be entered against any Relevant Company involving in the
           aggregate a liability (not fully covered by insurance) more than an
           amount equal to the greater of (A) (1) prior to the Conversion
           Commitment Date, twenty-five million Dollars ($25,000,000) (or its
           equivalent in another currency or other currencies) and (2) on and
           after the Conversion Commitment Date (aa) if the Customer shall have
           been determined to be a Category 1 Customer, twenty five million
           Dollars ($25,000,000), (bb) if the Customer shall have been
           determined to be a Category 2 Customer, fifteen million Dollars
           ($15,000,000) and (cc) if the Customer shall have been determined to
           be a Category 3 Customer, five million Dollars ($5,000,000) and (B)
           twenty percent (20%) of Consolidated Net Worth as at the date of the
           financial statements of the Customer most recently delivered
           hereunder at the time of determination, and the same shall remain
           unvacated, undischarged, unstayed or unbonded pending appeal for a
           period of forty-five (45) days after the entry thereof, PROVIDED that
           if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1
           Customer and (x) is not subject to judgment default provisions in any
           Comparable Financing Transaction to which it is party as evidenced by
           a certificate of the Customer to that effect addressed to AEF,
           accompanied by certified copies of the relevant documentation, this
           Section 8.01(h) shall not apply to any Relevant Company or (y)
           pursuant to any Comparable Financing Transaction to which it is party
           the Customer is subject to judgment default provisions not
           substantially similar to this Section 8.01(h) as evidenced by a
           certificate of the Customer to that effect addressed to AEF and
           accompanied by certified copies of the relevant provisions, such
           other judgment default provisions shall be deemed to be set forth in
           this Agreement in the place of this Section 8.01(h); or

       (i) NON-MONETARY JUDGMENTS. Any non-monetary judgment, order or decree
           shall be rendered against any Relevant Company that could reasonably
           be expected, in the sole opinion of AEF, to have a Material Adverse
           Effect, and enforcement proceedings shall have been commenced by any
           Person upon such judgment or order which shall remain unstayed for
           any period of forty-five (45) consecutive days or more; or

       (j) COLLATERAL

           (i)   Any provision of any Collateral Document shall for any reason
                 cease to be valid and binding on or enforceable against the
                 Customer or any Affiliate thereof party thereto, if the effect
                 thereof may materially deprive AEF or the Security Agent of the
                 benefits of the Collateral

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                 taken as a whole, or the Customer shall so state in writing or
                 bring an action to limit its obligations or liabilities
                 thereunder; or

           (ii)  Any Collateral Document shall for any reason (other than
                 pursuant to, or contemplated by, the terms thereof) cease to
                 create a valid Lien in any Collateral that is significant in
                 value, relative value or fundamental to the operation of the
                 Project purported to be covered thereby that is not replaced
                 with other Collateral acceptable to AEF within five (5)
                 Business Days, or any such Lien that, pursuant to the terms
                 hereof, is intended to constitute a perfected and first
                 priority Lien in favor of AEF or the Security Agent, as the
                 case may be, shall for any reason cease to be a perfected and
                 first priority Lien; or

       (k) FAILURE TO OBTAIN, OR LOSS OF, APPROVALS. The Customer shall fail to
           obtain, renew, maintain or comply in any material respect with the
           Telecommunications Approvals or any other Government Approvals; or
           the Telecommunications Authority or any other Governmental Authority
           shall revoke, terminate, withdraw, suspend, modify, withhold or fail
           to renew any Telecommunications Approval or any other Government
           Approval; or any Telecommunications Approval or any other Government
           Approval shall for whatever reason cease to be in full force and
           effect; or the Customer shall for any reason lose any
           Telecommunications Approval or any other Government Approval; or the
           use of the satellite frequencies and the orbital position of the
           Satellite have not been coordinated and notified with the RCB (or are
           not in the process of coordination) in accordance with the
           requirements of this Agreement or there exist prior advance
           publications or requests for coordination or notification for systems
           that may cause harmful interference to, or receive harmful
           interference from, the Satellite, which is reasonably likely to
           prevent the Customer from fulfilling its then current Business Plan
           (if a Business Plan is required to be provided hereunder) in any
           material respect; or any Export License, if required by applicable
           law, is revoked, rescinded or terminated; or

       (l) LOAN DOCUMENTS INEFFECTIVE. Any provision of any of this Agreement,
           the Note, the Fee Letter, the Collateral Documents or the
           Intercreditor Agreement (if any) shall at any time for any reason
           cease to be valid and binding or in full force and effect or any
           party thereto (other than AEF, the Security Agent, the Lenders or the
           Project Lenders) shall, in good faith, so assert in writing; or any
           provision of any of such agreements shall, in good faith, be declared
           to be null and void, or the validity or enforceability thereof shall
           be contested by any party thereto (other than AEF, the Security
           Agent, the Lenders or the Project Lenders) or any Governmental
           Authority; or any party (other than AEF, the Security Agent, the
           Lenders or the Project Lenders) to any of such agreements shall deny
           that it has any further liability or obligation under any such Loan
           Document; or any party (other than AEF, the Security Agent, the
           Lenders or the Project Lenders) to any of such agreements shall
           default in the observance or performance of any of the covenants or
           agreements contained in

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           any of such agreements and such default is not cured within the
           applicable grace period (if any) contained in such agreements; and in
           each such case such action, termination, cessation, declaration,
           contestation, denial or default could reasonably be expected to have
           a Material Adverse Effect; or

       (m) MULTIPARTY AGREEMENT INEFFECTIVE. Any provision of the Multiparty
           Agreement (other than Section 3(a) (excluding the last paragraph
           thereof), 3(c), 6 or 10 thereof (each an "EXCLUDED SECTION")) shall
           at any time for any reason cease to be valid and binding or in full
           force and effect or any party thereto (other than AE or AEF) shall,
           in good faith, so assert in writing; or any provision of the
           Multiparty Agreement, other than an Excluded Section, shall, in good
           faith, be declared to be null and void, or the validity or
           enforceability thereof shall be contested by any party thereto (other
           than AE or AEF) or any Governmental Authority; or any party thereto
           (other than AE or AEF) shall deny that it has any further liability
           or obligation under any section thereof other than under an Excluded
           Section; or any party thereto (other than AE or AEF) shall default in
           the observance or performance of any of the covenants or agreements
           contained in any section thereof other than an Excluded Section, and
           such default is not cured within the applicable grace period (if any)
           contained in the Multiparty Agreement; or

       (n) SATELLITE CONTRACTS INEFFECTIVE. Any provision of any of the
           Satellite Contracts shall at any time on or after the Conversion
           Commitment Date for any reason cease to be valid and binding or in
           full force and effect or any party thereto shall so assert in
           writing; or any provision of any of the Satellite Contracts shall be
           declared to be null and void, or the validity or enforceability
           thereof shall be contested by any party thereto or any Governmental
           Authority; or any party to any of the Satellite Contracts shall deny
           that it has any further liability or obligation under any of the
           Satellite Contracts; or any party to any of the Satellite Contracts
           shall default in the observance or performance of any of the
           covenants or agreements contained in any of the Satellite Contracts
           and such default is not cured within the applicable grace period (if
           any) contained in such Satellite Contract; and in each such case such
           action, termination, cessation, declaration, contestation, denial or
           default would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
           Effect; or

       (o) INSURANCE. The Customer shall fail at any time to procure, renew or
           maintain, or cause to be procured, renewed or maintained, any
           insurance coverage required pursuant to Section 6.06(b) of this
           Agreement or any insurer issues any notice of avoidance or
           cancellation of any such coverage as a result of a breach by the
           Customer of the terms of any of such insurance.

1.082  REMEDIES. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, AEF may:

       (a) declare, in whole or, from time to time, in part, any Commitment of
           AEF to make or Convert Loans to be terminated, whereupon such
           Commitments shall forthwith be terminated;

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       (b) declare, in whole or, from time to time, in part, the unpaid
           principal amount of the outstanding Loans, the interest accrued and
           unpaid thereon and all other amounts payable hereunder and under the
           other Loan Documents to be immediately due and payable, whereupon
           such amounts shall be due and payable without presentment, demand,
           protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby
           expressly waived by the Customer; and/or

       (c) exercise all rights, powers, privileges and remedies available to AEF
           under the Loan Documents or any other instrument, document or
           agreement or provided by law or in equity, or instruct the Security
           Agent to exercise its rights under the Collateral Documents or
           applicable law with respect to the Collateral, cure such Event of
           Default or prosecute the completion of the construction of the
           Project, either in the name of and as agent for the Customer pursuant
           to one or more existing contracts with the Customer or otherwise, and
           any monies so expended in curing such Event of Default or completing
           the construction of the Project shall, to the extent advanced by AEF,
           be added to the principal amount of the Loans hereunder and shall be
           repayable hereunder, regardless of whether or not such principal
           amount, as thus increased, exceeds the Commitments, and the amount of
           monies thus advanced for completion of the construction of the
           Project shall be deemed advanced under this Agreement as Loans, and
           shall be secured by the Collateral Documents, regardless of the
           principal amount thereof, and shall be payable by the Customer on
           demand with interest thereon at the Default Rate with respect to such
           Loans;

       PROVIDED that upon the occurrence of any event specified in Section
       8.01(f) or (g) above (in the case of Section 8.01(g), upon the expiration
       of the ninety (90) day period mentioned therein), the obligation of AEF
       to make Loans shall automatically terminate and the unpaid principal
       amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as
       aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable without notice to
       the Customer or any further act of AEF.

1.083  RIGHTS NOT EXCLUSIVE. The rights provided for in this Agreement and the
       other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not exclusive.


                      SECTION 9. ADDITIONAL LOAN PROVISIONS

1.091  CATEGORY 3 PREVIEW

       (a) PURPOSE AND TIMING. If the Customer shall be determined, during the
           Conversion process, to be a Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall
           satisfy, at or prior to Conversion, specific Conversion Conditions.
           Such conditions shall be determined, in accordance with the terms
           hereof, based on a review (as provided in this Section 9.01(a)) of
           the Preliminary Business Plan, if any, or otherwise (as provided in
           Section 9.02) on the basis of the Conversion Business Plan. In order
           to provide the Customer with greater certainty with respect to
           Conversion, the Customer shall have the right to submit its

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           Preliminary Business Plan (together with a true, complete and correct
           copy of the Construction and Payment Schedule) to AEF for preview by
           AEF and the Lenders pursuant to Section 9.01(b) below at any time
           until L minus (-) two hundred and ten (210) days.

       (b) SUBMISSION; RESUBMISSION

           (i)   At the request of the Customer, AEF shall conduct an initial
                 review of the Preliminary Business Plan, which review shall
                 solely be to assess the adequacy thereof for the purpose of
                 this Section 9.01(b). Upon completion of such review, AEF shall
                 notify the Customer whether, in the opinion of AEF and the
                 Lenders, the Preliminary Business Plan contains insufficient
                 information for AEF and the Lenders to assess such Preliminary
                 Business Plan hereunder, in which event AEF shall suggest
                 modifications, revisions and sensitivities to the Preliminary
                 Business Plan that may allow it to satisfy the requirements of
                 this Agreement and suggest such additional reports and other
                 information as may enable AEF and the Lenders to make the
                 determinations referred to in Section 9.01(c) below. The
                 Customer shall promptly submit to AEF (a "SUBMISSION") either
                 the Preliminary Business Plan as initially delivered or the
                 version that results from the modifications, revisions and
                 sensitivities referred to in this Section 9.01(b)(i).

           (ii)  AEF shall notify the Customer within thirty (30) days of
                 receipt of a Submission or a Revised Submission (as defined
                 below) to the Lenders whether:

                 (A) such Submission or Revised Submission is acceptable for the
                     purposes of Section 9.01(c) below;

                 (B) such Submission or Revised Submission contains insufficient
                     information for AEF and the Lenders to assess such
                     Submission or Revised Submission hereunder; or

                 (C) Conversion cannot occur for such Person as a Category 3
                     Customer on the basis of such Submission or Revised
                     Submission.

           (iii) If, following a Submission, AEF shall make the notification
                 referred to in Section 9.01(b)(ii)(B) above with respect
                 thereto, then AEF shall notify the Customer of any
                 modifications, revisions or sensitivities requested by AEF or
                 the Lenders. If (A) the Customer shall deliver to AEF such
                 modifications, revisions or sensitivities (collectively a
                 "REVISED SUBMISSION") not later than fifteen (15) days
                 following the date of such request and (B) such Revised
                 Submission is (in the opinion of AEF) of the customary,
                 iterative nature undertaken by AEF and the Lenders in reviewing
                 similar projects, the procedure set forth in Section
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                 Revised Submission, and such Revised Submission shall not
                 constitute a Resubmission (as defined below).

           (iv)  If, following a Submission or a Revised Submission, AEF shall
                 make the notification referred to in Section 9.01(b)(ii)(C)
                 above, AEF may request that a Lender act as modelling lender
                 (in the capacity contemplated by this Section 9.01(b)(iv), the
                 "MODELLING LENDER"). The Modelling Lender shall, for a period
                 of thirty (30) days, assist the Customer by suggesting
                 revisions to the Preliminary Business Plan that may allow AEF
                 and the Lenders to accept the Preliminary Business Plan as so
                 revised for the purposes of Section 9.01(c) below and by
                 assisting in developing an appropriate financial model to
                 establish a revised Preliminary Business Plan for Resubmission
                 to AEF.

           (v)   If there shall occur any material modification of a fundamental
                 business assumption underlying the Preliminary Business Plan,
                 or any other fundamental change in the nature of the business,
                 as to which a Submission has been made, the Customer may
                 resubmit to AEF for review by AEF and the Lenders (a
                 "RESUBMISSION") such revised Preliminary Business Plan for
                 re-consideration by AEF and the Lenders pursuant to the terms
                 of this Section 9.01.

           (vi)  No more than one Submission, one Revised Submission and one
                 Resubmission may be made by the Customer. The Customer shall
                 not be entitled to make a Submission, Revised Submission or
                 Resubmission on any day that is after L minus (-) one hundred
                 and sixty five (165) days.

           (vii) Any review, suggestion or other undertaking by AEF or the
                 Modelling Lender pursuant to this Section 9.01(b) shall be
                 without representation or warranty to the Lenders as to the
                 adequacy or accuracy of such Preliminary Business Plan, or to
                 the Customer or any other Person of the likelihood that AEF and
                 the Lenders will accept such Preliminary Business Plan for the
                 purposes of Section 9.01(c) below or that the Customer will on
                 the Conversion Commitment Date, the Conversion Date or at any
                 other time actually satisfy the applicable Conversion
                 Conditions.

       (c) LENDER REVIEW AND DETERMINATION OF CONVERSION CONDITIONS. If,
           following a Submission, Revised Submission or Resubmission of any
           Preliminary Business Plan each of AEF and the Lenders determine that
           the information set out in such Preliminary Business Plan is
           acceptable for the purposes of this Section 9.01(c), they shall,
           concurrently with the acceptance of any such Preliminary Business
           Plan:

           (i)   develop a Preliminary Base Case derived from the information
                 set out in the Preliminary Business Plan;

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           (ii)  establish Conversion Conditions that would apply to the
                 Customer in the event the Customer is determined to be a
                 Category 3 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, designed
                 in each case to examine the Customer's marketing, distribution
                 and financial strategies to reasonably confirm the ability of
                 the Customer to implement the Preliminary Base Case, comprised
                 of a set of objective tests (where practicable) with criteria
                 to be examined at the Conversion Commitment Date and the
                 Conversion Date in the event that the Customer is determined to
                 be a Category 3 Customer, and each of which may be subject to
                 revision solely as provided in Sections 9.02(c)(iii) and
                 9.02(e)(v);

           (iii) establish additional covenants to be applied to the Customer in
                 the event the Customer is determined to be a Category 3
                 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date to be applicable
                 during the Tranche B Term;

           (iv)  if the Preliminary Business Plan includes the information
                 described in clause (f) of the definition of "PRELIMINARY
                 BUSINESS PLAN" in Section 1.01, notify the Customer of any
                 additional Collateral determined pursuant to Section 9.03(b) to
                 be necessary by AEF or the Lenders in the event that such
                 Person shall be determined to be a Category 3 Customer; and

           (v)   identify the Expert Studies that will be required.

       (d) APPLICABILITY. AEF shall notify the Customer of the results of the
           preview pursuant to Section 9.01(c), and any terms and conditions
           specified by AEF pursuant to this Section 9.01 shall, if accepted by
           the Customer, be incorporated by AEF and the Customer in ANNEX 3.
           Such terms and conditions shall be applicable in accordance with the
           terms hereof only in the event the Customer is determined to be a
           Category 3 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date as set forth in
           Section 9.02(e), and shall be subject to revision solely in
           accordance with Section 9.02(a)(iii) and 9.03. Rejection by the
           Customer of the specified terms and conditions shall not preclude the
           Customer from being authorized to submit itself for consideration
           pursuant to Section 9.02(c)(iv). For the avoidance of doubt, the
           establishment of such Conversion Conditions shall not indicate or
           imply that the Customer will on the Conversion Commitment Date, the
           Conversion Date or at any other time actually satisfy such Customer
           Conversion Conditions. Review by AEF and the Lenders and development
           of a Preliminary Base Case pursuant to this Section 9.01 with respect
           to the Customer shall not preclude the assignment of the Customer to
           any other Customer Category for which it may qualify on the
           Conversion Commitment Date.

1.092  CONVERSION PROCESS

       (a) DRAFT DOCUMENTATION. On the date that is L minus (-) two hundred and
           ten (210) days:


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           (i)   In order for the Customer to be eligible for consideration as a
                 Category 1 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, the
                 Customer shall submit a draft of the Appraisal to AEF.

           (ii)  In order for the Customer to be eligible for consideration as a
                 Category 2 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, the
                 Customer shall submit to AEF drafts of (A) the Conversion
                 Business Plan and (B) the Appraisal.

           (iii) In order for the Customer to be eligible for consideration as a
                 Category 3 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date,
                 regardless of whether or not a Preliminary Base Case exists,
                 the Customer shall submit to AEF drafts of (A) the Conversion
                 Business Plan, (B) the Appraisal and (C) the Expert Studies
                 supporting the Conversion Business Plan.

       (b) AEF REVIEW. AEF shall review the draft documentation submitted by the
           Customer to AEF and shall discuss with the Customer any potential
           obstacles or any possible changes in order to provide the Customer
           with greater certainty with respect to Conversion.

       (c) PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTATION. On the date that is L minus (-) one
           hundred and eighty (180) days:

           (i)   In order for the Customer to be eligible for consideration as a
                 Category 1 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, the
                 Customer shall submit the Appraisal to AEF, and if the Customer
                 proposes to be designated as a Category 1C Customer, the
                 Customer shall also submit information satisfactory to AEF to
                 ascertain compliance with the Category 1C QL Loan Life Cover
                 Ratio and may submit a proposed Capex Budget. AEF shall develop
                 for the Customer a financial pro forma which shall be
                 sufficient to ascertain compliance with such Category 1C QL
                 Loan Life Cover Ratio.

           (ii)  In order for the Customer to be eligible for consideration as a
                 Category 2 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, the
                 Customer shall submit to AEF (A) the Conversion Business Plan
                 and (B) the Appraisal. AEF shall develop the Conversion Base
                 Case in accordance with ANNEX 2, notwithstanding the existence
                 of a Preliminary Base Case as a Category 3 Customer for the
                 Customer.

           (iii) If a Preliminary Base Case exists, and if the other matters
                 referred to in Section 9.01(c) have been established and
                 accepted by the Customer before the date that is L minus (-)
                 one hundred and eighty (180) days, then in order for the
                 Customer to be eligible for consideration as a Category 3
                 Customer on the Conversion Commitment Date, the Customer shall
                 submit to AEF:

                 (A) the Conversion Business Plan;


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                 (B) the Appraisal; and

                 (C) the Expert Studies supporting the Conversion Business Plan.

                 If such Conversion Business Plan and the Expert Studies contain
                 no material modification of a fundamental business assumption
                 (as determined by AEF) underlying the Preliminary Business
                 Plan, and no other material change in the business of the
                 Customer shall have occurred, then the Preliminary Base Case
                 shall become the Conversion Base Case. If any such material
                 modification shall have occurred, then AEF shall modify the
                 Preliminary Base Case and develop the Conversion Base Case in
                 accordance with the Conversion Business Plan, the Appraisal and
                 the Expert Studies. If AEF determines that the Conversion
                 Business Plan or the Expert Studies identify a material
                 modification of a fundamental business assumption (other than a
                 modification affecting solely the calculation of the relevant
                 ratios required to be determined in accordance with ANNEX 3) or
                 a material risk not identified in the Preliminary Business
                 Plan, AEF shall notify the Customer of any modifications to the
                 matters referred to in clauses 9.01(c)(ii) through (v) arising
                 by reason thereof, whereupon the matters referred to therein
                 shall be revised in accordance with such modifications.

           (iv)  If a Preliminary Base Case does not exist, or if a Preliminary
                 Base Case exists and the other matters referred to in Section
                 9.01(c) were established but not accepted by the Customer
                 before the date that is L minus (-) one hundred and eighty
                 (180) days, then in order for the Customer to be eligible for
                 consideration as a Category 3 Customer on the Conversion
                 Commitment Date, the Customer shall submit to AEF:

                 (A) the Conversion Business Plan;

                 (B) the Appraisal; and

                 (C) the Expert Studies supporting the Conversion Business Plan.

                 AEF shall determine whether a Conversion Commitment can be
                 provided for the Customer and, if so, upon what terms and
                 conditions.

       (d) CONVERSION REQUEST DATE. On the date that is L minus (-) one hundred
           and fifty (150) days, the Customer shall deliver the documents and
           other instruments required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 4.02
           and 4.03, together with (i) a copy of the executed Launch Services
           Agreement (which Launch Services Agreement may be disclosed to the
           Lenders), (ii) a list showing (x) the country in which it intends to
           be Licensed, on and after the Conversion Date, (y) each country in
           which it intends to receive a substantial portion of its Project
           revenues, on and after the Conversion Date, and (z) each

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           country in which any item described in Section 4.02(i) is located, or
           is reasonably expected to be located on and after the Conversion Date
           and (iii) such other information as AEF may request for purposes of
           demonstrating the Customer's compliance or prospective compliance
           with the conditions set forth therein.

       (e) CONVERSION COMMITMENT DATE. On the Conversion Commitment Date, which
           date shall be L minus (-) eighty-five (85) days with respect to the
           then scheduled Launch of the Satellite, PROVIDED that such date shall
           not in any event be earlier than sixty-five (65) days after the
           Conversion Request Date:

           (i)   AEF shall, in its discretion, determine which Customer Category
                 will be applicable to the Customer in accordance with the
                 criteria set forth in ANNEXES 1, 2 AND 3;

           (ii)  AEF shall, in its discretion, determine whether the applicable
                 Conversion Conditions have been and continue to be satisfied
                 and whether the Tranche B Conditions Precedent are, have been
                 and continue, or are expected to be, satisfied by the Customer
                 on or before the date that is L minus (-) fifteen (15) days;

           (iii) the Customer shall either prepay all Tranche A Outstandings
                 exceeding the Conversion Commitment Amount, if any, or, at the
                 discretion of AEF, the Customer shall (on terms and conditions
                 acceptable to AEF) grant in favor of AEF a perfected first
                 priority Lien (in each case created and perfected on terms
                 satisfactory to AEF) in cash collateral (denominated in Dollars
                 and held in Cash Equivalents) or provide a letter of credit
                 issued by a bank acceptable to AEF that maintains a senior
                 secured credit rating by S&P of not less than AA- or equivalent
                 by any other Major Rating Agency for the benefit of AEF on
                 terms acceptable to AEF and in an amount equal to the amount of
                 Tranche A Outstandings exceeding the Conversion Commitment
                 Amount, PROVIDED that any such excess amounts so secured shall
                 be prepaid, in any event, on or prior to the Conversion Date;

           (iv)  AEF shall have delivered to the Customer the Repayment Profile;
                 and

           (v)   unless previously determined pursuant to Section 9.01, or if
                 the applicable information not found in the Preliminary
                 Business Plan shall have been modified in a material respect in
                 the Conversion Business Plan, AEF shall make any determinations
                 with respect to additional Customer Collateral as shall be
                 appropriate pursuant to Section 9.03.

                 Notwithstanding the requirements set forth in this Section
                 9.02(e) with respect to the timing of the Conversion Commitment
                 Date, AEF shall notify the Customer as soon as reasonably
                 practicable after the Conversion Request Date of the result of
                 any determination required to be made under this Section
                 9.02(e), to the extent that any such determinations are made.

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       (f) CONVERSION COMMITMENT. If, on the Conversion Commitment Date with
           respect to any Customer:

           (i)   AEF determines, in its discretion, that the Conversion
                 Conditions have been satisfied and the Tranche B Conditions
                 Precedent have been or will be satisfied as provided in Section
                 4.03; and

           (ii)  if the Customer shall have reduced the Tranche A Outstandings
                 so as not to exceed the Conversion Commitment Amount (or the
                 Customer has provided additional security as provided for in
                 Section 9.02(e)(iii), as the case may be),

           AEF shall provide a Conversion Commitment to the Customer, and AEF
           shall deliver to the Customer an executed Conversion Commitment
           Letter as confirmation of such Conversion Commitment on a date not
           earlier than sixty-five (65) days after the Conversion Request Date
           and not later than L minus (-) eighty-five days. Such Conversion
           Commitment shall be valid and binding for a Launch or Reflight (as
           the case may be) occurring up to ninety (90) days after the
           then-scheduled date of Launch PROVIDED that AEF is satisfied, in its
           discretion, on the date being L minus (-) thirty (30) days for the
           rescheduled Launch, that:

           (A)   the applicable Conversion Conditions and Tranche B Conditions
                 Precedent are, or continue to be, satisfied by the Customer;
                 and

           (B)   the Tranche A Outstandings do not exceed the Conversion
                 Commitment Amount (or that additional security shall have been
                 provided in the manner described in this Section 9.02(e)). If
                 the Customer fails to satisfy the applicable Conversion
                 Conditions and Tranche B Conditions Precedent on the Conversion
                 Commitment Date, AEF may, in its discretion, permit the
                 Customer to again present evidence to AEF demonstrating their
                 satisfaction at any time until L minus (-) fifteen (15) days
                 and if AEF determines on such date that such conditions have
                 not been satisfied by such date, Conversion shall not occur.

       (g) CONVERSION DATE. On the Conversion Date, AEF shall, in its
           discretion, determine whether:

           (i)   the Conversion Conditions and the Tranche B Conditions
                 Precedent continue to be satisfied by the Customer; and

           (ii)  the Tranche A Outstandings do not exceed the Conversion
                 Commitment Amount. If AEF determines that such conditions
                 continue to remain satisfied on and as of the Conversion Date
                 with the same effect as if made on and as of such date, and if
                 the Tranche A Outstandings do not exceed the Conversion
                 Commitment Amount, the Tranche A Loans shall convert to the
                 Tranche B Loan in the manner described in Section

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                 9.02(e) above. If AEF shall determine that either of the above
                 conditions has not been satisfied, Conversion shall not occur.
                 Upon Conversion and for the duration of the Tranche B Term, the
                 additional terms set forth in ANNEX 1, 2 OR 3 (as revised, if
                 applicable pursuant to section 9.01(d)), as applicable, shall
                 apply to the Customer, and the Customer shall be required to
                 comply therewith if AEF determines pursuant to Section 9.02(e)
                 above that the Customer satisfies the requirements to be a
                 Category 1 Customer, Category 2 Customer or Category 3
                 Customer, as the case may be.

       (h) REFERENCE DATES. All documents required to be delivered by the
           Customer to AEF pursuant to this Section 9.02 shall be delivered by
           the Customer not more than ten (10) days prior to, nor more than five
           (5) days after, the delivery dates specified herein. In the event
           that following the date on which an Appraisal, Conversion Business
           Plan (if applicable) or Expert Study (if applicable) is provided to
           AEF pursuant to Section 9.02(a) there shall occur any delay in the
           then scheduled date of Launch of ninety (90) days or more, AEF shall
           be entitled to require as a condition to Conversion confirmation from
           the Customer and the Person issuing any such Appraisal, Conversion
           Business Plan or Expert Study that any such information so provided
           remains accurate in all respects.

1.093  ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL. The Customer shall be required to grant a first
       priority, perfected Lien on or in the Collateral in accordance with the
       terms hereof. In addition thereto:

       (a) CATEGORY 1C CUSTOMER AND CATEGORY 2 CUSTOMERS. If the Customer shall
           have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer or Category 2
           Customer and (i) the Satellite is to be placed into non-geostationary
           orbit pursuant to the Launch Services Agreement or (ii) the Project
           shall be determined by AEF, based on the decision of the Lenders, to
           involve a novel application (whether or not using novel
           technologies), AEF may require that assets in addition to those set
           forth in the definition of "COLLATERAL" herein that are integral to
           the operation of the Satellite be included in the Collateral and, in
           order for the Customer to be entitled to Conversion, such assets
           shall, thereupon, be deemed to form part of the Collateral for all
           purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Any such
           determination shall be made by AEF on or before the date of the
           earlier to occur of (A) the completion of the review, if any,
           pursuant to Section 9.01 of any Preliminary Business Plan submitted
           for the Customer, if accepted by the Customer, that contains
           information determined by AEF to be sufficient for the purpose of
           this Section 9.03 and (B) the Conversion Commitment Date.

       (b) CATEGORY 3 CUSTOMERS. If the Customer shall have been determined to
           be a Category 3 Customer, AEF may require that assets in addition to
           those set forth in the definition of "COLLATERAL" in this Agreement
           and directly relating to the operation of the Satellite and any
           revenues derived therefrom be

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           included in the Collateral (but AEF may not include in such
           requirement any asset readily available in the market-place for a
           value of less than one million Dollars ($1,000,000) unless the
           Project Financing is secured by a Lien on any such asset), and in
           order for the Customer to be entitled to Conversion, such assets
           shall, thereupon, be deemed to form part of the Collateral for all
           purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Any such
           determination shall be made by AEF on or before the date of the
           earlier to occur of (A) the completion of the review, if any,
           pursuant to Section 9.01 of any Preliminary Business Plan submitted
           by the Customer, if accepted by the Customer, that contains
           information determined by AEF to be sufficient for the purpose of
           this Section 9.03, and (B) the Conversion Commitment Date.

1.094  SECURITY INTEREST IN COLLATERAL. No later than, and at all times after,
       the Conversion Date (but subject to Section 4.03(d)), the Customer shall
       grant to the Security Agent, for the benefit of AEF, the Lenders and the
       associated Project Lenders in accordance with the terms of the
       Intercreditor Agreement, a valid Lien in or on all of the Customer's
       Collateral (except, subject to the following provisions of this Section
       9.04 in the case of Government Approvals constituting Collateral, where
       such Lien cannot be created under applicable law). Such Liens shall be
       first priority and perfected at all such times, PROVIDED that if the
       Liens with respect to the Satellite or any Government Approval
       constituting Collateral (the "SUBJECT COLLATERAL") shall not be capable
       of being so perfected (or, in the case of such Government Approvals,
       created) under applicable law after the Customer shall have taken all
       reasonable steps to perfect (or, in the case of such Government
       Approvals, to create) such Lien, the Customer shall take the following
       additional actions with respect to security interests:

       (a) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1
           Customer (other than a Category 1C Customer that is not rated by a
           Major Rating Agency), the Customer shall provide whatever means to
           perfect a Lien as is normally constituted by the then-present
           practices (as determined by AEF) of third-party creditors intending
           to create perfected Liens in assets comparable to the Subject
           Collateral, (as determined by AEF), under the applicable law as of
           such Conversion Date of each relevant jurisdiction, in secured
           satellite or transponder financings, PROVIDED that to the extent that
           the law applicable to the perfection of a security interest in the
           Satellite is the law of a State of the United States of America (and
           without limitation on the application of the law of any other
           jurisdiction to the extent applicable), the parties hereto recognize
           that the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in such jurisdiction does
           not as of the Closing Date expressly address the perfection of Liens
           in satellites and agree that the Customer shall (i) provide for
           whatever means to perfect a Lien in orbiting satellites as is
           normally constituted by the then-present practices of third-party
           creditors conducting a material lending business in the United States
           of America intending to create perfected security interests in assets
           comparable to the Satellite in orbit, (ii) in the absence of such
           present practices, assume that the Satellite would be classified as
           either a "mobile good" or an "ordinary good" under the applicable
           Uniform Commercial Code and (iii) file financing statements and
           amendments thereto in the following

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           jurisdictions: (A) the principal place of business of the Customer or
           the chief executive office of the Customer if it has more than one
           place of business, (B) the jurisdiction in which the Satellite is
           manufactured, (C) any jurisdictions in which the TTC&M Facilities are
           or will be located, and (D) any jurisdiction with which the Satellite
           or the Customer has a substantial connection, PROVIDED that, in the
           case of (A), (B), (C) and (D), such jurisdiction is located within
           the United States of America, and PROVIDED FURTHER that, in the event
           there is a change in applicable law that provides for the recognition
           of the perfection of security interests in orbiting satellites, the
           Customer shall take all actions required or reasonably advisable
           under such law to create a perfected Lien in the Satellite;

       (b) if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
           Customer that is not rated by a Major Rating Agency, a Category 2
           Customer or a Category 3 Customer, so long as such Customer is a
           special purpose vehicle providing a perfected, first priority pledge
           of the equity interests therein as Collateral, the Customer shall
           provide whatever means to perfect a Lien as is normally constituted
           by the then-present practices (as determined by AEF) of third-party
           creditors intending to create perfected security interests in assets
           comparable to the Subject Collateral, (as determined by AEF), under
           the applicable law of each relevant jurisdiction as of the Conversion
           Date, in secured, non-recourse satellite or transponder financings
           for borrowers similar to the Customer, PROVIDED that, to the extent
           that the law applicable to the perfection of a security interest in
           the Satellite is the law of a State of the United States of America
           (and without limitation on the application of the law of any other
           jurisdiction to the extent applicable), the parties hereto recognize
           that the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in such jurisdiction does
           not as of the Closing Date expressly address the perfection of Liens
           in satellites and agree that the Customer shall (i) provide for
           whatever means to perfect a Lien in orbiting satellites as is
           normally constituted by the then-present practices (as determined by
           AEF) of third-party creditors conducting a material lending business
           in the United States of America intending to create perfected
           security interests in assets comparable to the Satellite in orbit in
           secured non-recourse satellite or transponder financings for
           borrowers similar to the Customer (as determined by AEF), (ii) in the
           absence of such present practices, assume that the Satellite shall be
           treated as either a "mobile good" or an "ordinary good" under the
           applicable Uniform Commercial Code and (iii) file financing


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                 Customer shall take all actions required or reasonably
                 advisable under such law to create a perfected Lien in the
                 Satellite; and

           (c)   if the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C
                 Customer that is not rated by a Major Rating Agency, a Category
                 2 Customer or a Category 3 Customer and is not a special
                 purpose vehicle providing a pledge of equity interests as
                 provided in clause (b) above, the Customer shall provide:


                 (i) for a pledge of all of the equity interests in an
                     affiliated special purpose vehicle possessing ownership
                     interests in the Subject Collateral, unless AEF shall
                     determine based on the decision of the Lenders that
                     business, legal, tax or accounting considerations with
                     respect to such pledge would be unduly burdensome for the
                     Customer,


                (ii) whatever means to perfect a security interest as is
                     normally constituted by the then-present practices (as
                     determined by AEF) of third-party creditors intending to
                     create perfected security interests in assets comparable to
                     the Subject Collateral (as determined by AEF), under the
                     applicable law of each relevant jurisdiction as of the
                     Conversion Date, in secured, non-recourse satellite or
                     transponder financings for borrowers similar to the
                     Customer (as determined by AEF), PROVIDED that, to the
                     extent that the law applicable to the perfection of a
                     security interest in the Subject Collateral is the law of a
                     State of the United States of America, the parties hereto
                     recognize that the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in
                     such jurisdiction does not as of the Closing Date expressly
                     address the perfection of security interests in satellites
                     and agree that the Customer shall (A) provide for whatever
                     means to perfect a Lien in orbiting satellites as is
                     normally constituted by the then-present practices (as
                     determined by AEF) of third-party creditors conducting a
                     material lending business in the United States of America
                     intending to create perfected Liens in assets comparable to
                     the Satellite in orbit in secured, non-recourse satellite
                     or transponder financings for borrowers similar to the
                     Customer (as determined by AEF), (B) in the absence of such
                     present practices, assume that the Satellite would be
                     treated as a "mobile good" or an "ordinary good" under the
                     applicable Uniform Commercial Code and (C) file financing
                     statements and amendments thereto in the following
                     jurisdictions: (1) the principal place of business of the
                     Customer or the chief executive office of the Customer if
                     it has more than one place of business, (2) the
                     jurisdiction in which the Satellite is manufactured, (3)
                     any jurisdiction in which the TTC&M Facilities are located,
                     and (4) any jurisdiction with which the Satellite or the
                     Customer has a substantial connection; PROVIDED that, in
                     the case of (1), (2), (3) and (4), such jurisdiction is
                     located within the United States of America, and PROVIDED
                     FURTHER that, in the event there is a change in applicable
                     law that provides for the recognition of the perfection of
                     security interests in orbiting

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                     satellites, the Customer shall take all actions required or
                     reasonably advisable under such law to create a perfected
                     Lien in the Satellite; and

               (iii) such other terms and conditions to supplement this
                     Agreement as shall be required by AEF based on the decision
                     of the Lenders to be necessary to address any credit risk
                     posed by the businesses of the Customer other than the
                     Project and any Indebtedness incurred by the Customer in
                     connection with such other businesses.


                            SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS

1.101  AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this
       Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent with respect to any
       departure by the Customer therefrom, shall be effective unless the same
       shall be in writing and signed by the Customer and AEF, and then such
       waiver shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the
       specific purpose for which given.

1.102  NOTICES. All notices, demands, requests, waivers and other communications
       provided for hereunder, whether or not specified to be in writing, shall
       be in writing (including facsimile transmission) and mailed, telecopied
       or delivered, if to the Customer, to its address specified on SCHEDULE
       10.02, and if to AEF, to its address specified on SCHEDULE 10.02, or to
       such other address as shall be designated by any party in a written
       notice to the other party. All such notices and communications shall,
       when telecopied or mailed by overnight delivery, be effective when
       transmitted (any facsimile transmission to be promptly confirmed by the
       sender by telephone), delivered for overnight delivery or transmitted by
       telecopier, or if delivered, upon delivery, except that notices pursuant
       to Section 2 shall not be effective until received by AEF, PROVIDED that
       any such notices or communications delivered to AEF hereunder or under
       any other Loan Document shall be effective only if a copy thereof shall
       be delivered to AE at the address therefor determined in accordance with
       the terms of the Multiparty Agreement.

1.103  NO WAIVER; CUMULATIVE REMEDIES. No failure to exercise and no delay in
       exercising, on the part of AEF, and no course of dealing with respect to,
       any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder, shall operate as a
       waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right,
       remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further
       exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
       privilege. The rights and remedies herein are cumulative and not
       exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law. All covenants of the
       Customer in this Agreement, and all Events of Default in Section 8.01,
       shall be given independent effect, even if the subject matter thereof is
       covered by another clause of this Agreement.


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1.104  COSTS AND EXPENSES; INDEMNIFICATION

       (a) The Customer shall, whether or not the transactions contemplated
           hereby shall be consummated:

           (i)   pay to or reimburse AEF, the Security Agent and each Lender on
                 demand for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred in
                 connection with the negotiation, development, preparation,
                 delivery, administration and execution of, and any amendment,
                 supplement, waiver or modification to, this Agreement, any Loan
                 Document and any other documents prepared in connection
                 herewith or therewith, and the consummation of the transactions
                 contemplated hereby and thereby, including (without limitation)
                 (A) the fees, costs and expenses of all special counsel to AEF
                 and all special counsel to the Lenders, plus disbursements and
                 travel costs and expenses and (B) all other communication,
                 travel and out-of-pocket costs and expenses in connection with
                 the foregoing;

           (ii)  pay to or reimburse AEF, the Security Agent and each Lender on
                 demand for all costs and expenses incurred by them in
                 connection with (A) any Default or Event of Default or (B) the
                 enforcement, protection or preservation of any rights or claims
                 (including in connection with any "workout" or restructuring
                 regarding the Loans) under this Agreement, any Loan Document,
                 and any such other documents, including all fees and
                 out-of-pocket expenses of counsel (and the allocated cost of
                 internal counsel) to AEF, the Security Agent and each Lender;

           (iii) pay to or reimburse AEF on demand for all appraisal (including
                 the fees and disbursements of the Appraiser), audit, search,
                 filing and other fees incurred or sustained by AEF in
                 connection with the matters referred to under subsection (i)
                 above; and

           (iv)  pay to or reimburse AEF, the Security Agent and each Lender on
                 demand for all appraisal, audit, search and filing fees
                 incurred or sustained by any of them in connection with the
                 matters referred to under subsection (ii) above.

       (b) The Customer hereby agrees to indemnify AEF, each Lender (including
           any such Lender acting in its capacity as Modelling Lender) and the
           Security Agent and their respective directors, officers, employees
           and agents (each such Person, a "COVERED PERSON") from, and hold each
           of them harmless against, on a net after-tax basis, any and all
           losses, liabilities, claims (including, without limitation, claims
           involving strict or absolute liability in tort, warranty claims or
           claims based on negligence, product liability or statutory liability,
           claims for libel, slander, infringement of copyright, patent, trade
           secret or trademark infringement), actions, suits, penalties, damages
           or expenses

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           (collectively, "LOSSES") incurred by any of them arising out of or by
           reason of any investigation or litigation or other proceedings
           (including any threatened investigation or litigation or other
           proceedings) relating to any actual or proposed use by the Customer
           of the proceeds of any of the Loans or otherwise directly or
           indirectly arising out of or in connection with the Project or any of
           the Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated thereby or the
           launch of any part of the Satellite, including the fees and
           disbursements of counsel incurred in connection with any such
           investigation or litigation or other proceedings, except:

           (i)   Losses to the extent caused by the gross negligence or willful
                 misconduct of such Covered Person or any director, officer,
                 employee, servant or agent of such Covered Person;

           (ii)  Losses to the extent attributable to actions (other than those
                 of, or attributable to, the Customer, any customer or Affiliate
                 of the Customer or any director, officer, employee, servant or
                 agent of the Customer) occurring after full and final
                 compliance by the Customer with all of the terms of the
                 Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the repayment in
                 full of the Loans; and

           (iii) Losses to the extent caused by any misrepresentation or breach
                 of, or failure to comply with or perform, any obligation on the
                 part of such Covered Person pursuant to this Agreement or any
                 other Loan Document.

           Amounts becoming due to a Covered Person pursuant to this Section
           10.04(b) shall bear interest thereon at the Default Rate from the
           date on which the same were due and payable until the date of
           payment. The foregoing obligations on the part of the Customer shall
           survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement for any
           reason whatsoever.

1.105  SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding
       upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective
       successors and assigns, except that the Customer may not assign or
       transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement.

1.106  ASSIGNMENT

       (a) AEF may, at any time, assign and delegate to one or more Eligible
           Assignees all or any part of this Agreement, the Loans or the
           Commitments, or any other rights or obligations of AEF hereunder,
           PROVIDED that the Customer may continue to deal solely and directly
           with AEF in connection with the interests so assigned to an Eligible
           Assignee until (i) written notice of such assignment, together with
           payment instructions, addresses and related information with respect
           to the Eligible Assignee, shall have been given to the Customer by
           AEF and the Eligible Assignee and (ii) AEF and its Eligible Assignee
           shall

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           have delivered to the Customer a commitment assignment notice and
           acceptance substantially in the form of EXHIBIT B (the "ASSIGNMENT
           AND ACCEPTANCE").

       (b) From and after the date of any such assignment, (i) the Eligible
           Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent that
           rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to
           such Assignment and Acceptance, shall have the rights and obligations
           of AEF under the Loan Documents, including all rights to
           indemnification and (ii) AEF shall, to the extent that rights and
           obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such
           Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights and be released from
           its obligations thereafter arising under the Loan Documents.

       (c) Immediately upon each Eligible Assignee's making its payment under
           the Assignment and Acceptance, this Agreement shall be deemed to be
           amended to the extent, but only to the extent, necessary to reflect
           the addition of the Eligible Assignee and the resulting adjustment of
           the Commitments arising therefrom. The Commitments allocated in part
           to an Eligible Assignee or to more than one Eligible Assignee shall
           reduce the Commitments of AEF pro tanto.

       (d) AEF may disclose from time to time any financial or other information
           concerning the Customer or any of its Affiliates or the Project that
           AEF has received from the Customer pursuant to this Agreement or in
           connection with AEF's credit evaluation of the Customer prior to
           entering into this Agreement on a confidential basis to any Eligible
           Assignee or any prospective Eligible Assignee, PROVIDED that such
           Eligible Assignee or prospective Eligible Assignee agrees in writing
           with AEF to keep such information confidential to the same extent
           required of AEF hereunder.

1.107  CURRENCY INDEMNITY

       (a) Any amount received or recovered by AEF hereunder or under any other
           Loan Document in respect of any moneys or liabilities due, arising or
           incurred by the Customer to AEF (whether as a result of any judgment
           or order of any court or in the bankruptcy, reorganization,
           liquidation or dissolution of the Customer or by way of damages for
           any breach of any obligation to make any payment to such Person) in a
           currency (the "CURRENCY OF PAYMENT") other than the currency in which
           the payment should have been made pursuant to this Agreement or such
           other Loan Document (the "CURRENCY OF OBLIGATION") in whatever
           circumstances and for whatever reason shall only constitute a
           discharge to the Customer to the extent of the Currency of Obligation
           amount that such Person is able or would have been able, on the date
           or dates of receipt by it of such payment or payments in the Currency
           of Payment (or, in the case of any such date that is not a Business
           Day, on the next succeeding Business Day), to purchase in the foreign
           exchange market of its choice with the amount or amounts so received.

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       (b) If the amount of the Currency of Obligation that the Person referred
           to above is so able to purchase falls short of the amount originally
           due to such Person hereunder or under any other Loan Document, the
           Customer shall indemnify and hold the Person referred to above
           harmless against any loss or damage arising as a result of such
           shortfall by paying to such Person that amount in the Currency of
           Obligation certified by such Person as necessary to so indemnify and
           hold such Person harmless. This indemnity shall constitute a separate
           and independent obligation from the other obligations contained in
           this Agreement or any other Loan Document, shall give rise to a
           separate and independent cause of action against the Customer for the
           additional amount necessary to yield the amount to make such Person
           whole in terms of the Currency of Obligation, shall apply
           irrespective of any indulgence granted hereunder or thereunder from
           time to time, and shall continue in full force and effect
           notwithstanding any judgment or order for a liquidated amount or
           amounts in respect of amounts due hereunder or thereunder or under
           any such judgment or order.

1.108  SET-OFF. The Customer authorizes each of AEF, the Lenders and the
       Security Agent at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to
       the Customer, any such notice being waived by the Customer to the fullest
       extent permitted by law, (a) if an Event of Default shall have occurred
       and be continuing, to set-off and apply any and all deposits (general or
       special, provisional or final) at any time held by AEF, such Lender or,
       as the case may be, the Security Agent to or for the credit or the
       account of the Customer and other Indebtedness at any time owing by AEF,
       such Lender or, as the case may be, the Security Agent to the Customer,
       in each case regardless of the currency in which such deposit or other
       Indebtedness is denominated, the office or branch where such deposit or
       other Indebtedness is held or owing and whether or not such deposit or
       other Indebtedness is then due, against any and all obligations of the
       Customer now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan
       Document and any Loan held by AEF, such Lender or, as the case may be,
       the Security Agent to the extent that such obligations of the Customer or
       such Loan is then due but irrespective of whether or not AEF shall have
       made demand under this Agreement or any Loan Document and (b) if a
       Default shall have occurred and be continuing, to suspend the payment and
       performance of its obligations with respect to any Indebtedness at any
       time owing by AEF, such Lender or the Security Agent, as the case may be,
       to the Customer (including, without limitation, the suspension of any
       payments with respect to any deposits (general or special, provisional or
       final) at such time held by AEF, such Lender or the Security Agent to or
       for the credit or the account of the Customer). AEF agrees promptly to
       notify the Customer after any such set-off and application made by AEF,
       PROVIDED that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
       validity of such set-off and application. The rights of AEF, such Lender
       or, as the case may be, the Security Agent under this Section 10.08 are
       in addition to the other rights and remedies (including without
       limitation, other rights of set-off) that AEF, such Lender or, as the
       case may be, the Security Agent may have.


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1.109  COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the
       parties to this Agreement in any number of separate counterparts, each of
       which, when so executed, shall be deemed an original, and all of said
       counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute but one and the
       same instrument.

10.10  SEVERABILITY. Any provision hereof that is prohibited or unenforceable in
       any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the
       extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the
       remaining provisions hereof and without affecting the validity or
       enforceability of any provision in any other jurisdiction.

10.11  GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

       (a) THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE CUSTOMER AND AEF UNDER THIS AGREEMENT
           (INCLUDING MATTERS RELATING TO THE MAXIMUM INTEREST RATE CHARGEABLE
           HEREUNDER) SHALL, PURSUANT TO NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW
           SECTION 5-1401, BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

       (b) SUBJECT TO CLAUSE (C) BELOW, ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH
           RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE LOAN DOCUMENTS MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE
           COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
           FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SITTING IN MANHATTAN, AND BY
           EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH OF THE CUSTOMER AND
           AEF CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NON-
           EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. EACH OF THE CUSTOMER AND AEF
           IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE
           LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, THAT
           IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR
           PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY
           DOCUMENT RELATED HERETO. THE CUSTOMER AND AEF EACH WAIVE PERSONAL
           SERVICE OF ANY SUMMONS, COMPLAINT OR OTHER PROCESS, WHICH MAY BE MADE
           BY ANY OTHER MEANS PERMITTED BY NEW YORK LAW OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
           LAW. THE CUSTOMER IRREVOCABLY APPOINTS CT CORPORATION SYSTEM AND ITS
           SUCCESSORS, SITUATED AT 1633 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019, AS
           ITS AGENT TO RECEIVE SERVICE OF PROCESS OR OTHER LEGAL SUMMONS FOR
           PURPOSES OF ANY PROCEEDING. THE CUSTOMER AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT
           IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE
           ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS

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           BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW.

       (c) IF AND FOR SO LONG AS THERE SHALL BE ANY ECA ENHANCEMENT OR ECA
           COUNTRY RISK COVERAGE PROVIDED WITH RESPECT TO THE TRANSACTIONS
           CONTEMPLATED IN THIS AGREEMENT, AT THE ELECTION OF AEF, ANY AND ALL
           DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE
           FINALLY SETTLED UNDER THE RULES OF ARBITRATION AND CONCILIATION OF
           THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (THE "RULES") BY THREE (3)
           ARBITRATORS APPOINTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES. THE PLACE OF
           ARBITRATION SHALL BE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN
           PARIS, FRANCE. THE LANGUAGE OF ARBITRATION SHALL BE ENGLISH. NO
           CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES SHALL BE AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH
           ANY SUCH ARBITRATION. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE
           CUSTOMER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND GENERALLY CONSENTS IN RESPECT OF ANY
           SUCH ARBITRAL PROCEEDINGS TO THE GIVING OF ANY RELIEF OR THE ISSUE OF
           ANY PROCESS IN CONNECTION WITH THOSE PROCEEDINGS, INCLUDING THE
           MAKING, ENFORCEMENT OR EXECUTION AGAINST ANY ASSETS WHATSOEVER
           (IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR USE OR INTENDED USE) OF ANY ORDER OR JUDGMENT
           WHICH MAY BE MADE OR GIVEN IN THOSE PROCEEDINGS. THE CUSTOMER AGREES
           THAT ANY FINAL AWARD AGAINST IT IN ANY ARBITRAL PROCEEDINGS SHALL BE
           CONCLUSIVE AND BINDING UPON IT AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN THE COURTS OF
           LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE OR ANY OTHER COURTS TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE
           CUSTOMER AEF IS OR MAY BE SUBJECT, BY SUIT ON THE AWARD, A CERTIFIED
           OR EXEMPLIFIED COPY OF WHICH AWARD SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE
           THEREOF AND OF THE AMOUNT OF ITS LIABILITY, OR BY ANY OTHER MEANS
           PROVIDED BY LAW.

       (d) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION 10.11 SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF AEF TO SERVE
           LEGAL PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR AFFECT THE
           RIGHT OF AEF TO BRING ANY SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING AGAINST THE
           CUSTOMER OR THE PROPERTY OF THE CUSTOMER IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER
           JURISDICTION.

       (e) To the extent that the Customer may in any jurisdiction claim for
           itself or its assets immunity from suit, execution, attachment
           (whether in aid of execution, before judgment or otherwise) or other
           legal process and, to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there
           may be attributed to itself or its assets such

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           immunity whether or not claimed, the Customer hereby irrevocably
           agrees not to claim, and irrevocably waives, such immunity to the
           fullest extent permitted by the laws of such jurisdiction.

10.12  WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. THE CUSTOMER AND AEF WAIVE THEIR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS
       TO A TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING
       OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE
       TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR
       OTHER LITIGATION OF ANY TYPE BROUGHT BY ANY OF THE PARTIES AGAINST ANY
       OTHER PARTY OR PARTIES, WHETHER WITH RESPECT TO CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT
       CLAIMS OR OTHERWISE. THE CUSTOMER AND AEF AGREE THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM OR
       CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE TRIED BY A COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY. WITHOUT
       LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THE PARTIES FURTHER AGREE THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE
       RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS WAIVED BY OPERATION OF THIS SECTION 10.12. AS
       TO ANY ACTION, COUNTERCLAIM OR OTHER PROCEEDING THAT SEEKS, IN WHOLE OR
       IN PART, TO CHALLENGE THE VALIDITY OR ENFORCEABILITY OF THIS AGREEMENT OR
       THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY PROVISION HEREOF OR THEREOF. THIS WAIVER
       SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR
       MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS.

10.13  ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents,
       embodies the entire agreement and understanding between the Customer and
       AEF and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements and
       understandings of such persons, verbal or written, relating to the
       subject matter hereof and thereof.

10.14  CONFIDENTIALITY. AEF agrees to take normal and reasonable precautions and
       exercise due care to maintain the confidentiality of all non-public
       information provided to it by the Customer or any of its Subsidiaries in
       connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any of the
       Satellite Contracts, and neither it nor any of its Affiliates shall use
       any such information for any purpose or in any manner other than pursuant
       to the terms contemplated by this Agreement, except to the extent such
       information (a) was or becomes generally available to the public other
       than as a result of a disclosure by AEF or (b) was or becomes available
       on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Customer,
       PROVIDED that such source is not bound by a confidentiality agreement
       with the Customer known to AEF, and PROVIDED that AEF may disclose such
       information (i) at the request of any bank regulatory authority or in
       connection with an examination of AEF by any such authority, (ii)
       pursuant to subpoena or other court process, (iii) when required to do so
       in accordance with the provisions of any applicable law, (iv) at the
       express direction of any agency of any jurisdiction in which AEF conducts
       its business, (v) to AEF's independent auditors and legal counsel, (vi)
       to the Security Agent, the

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       Lenders and the Project Lenders, (vii) to any Eligible Assignee or
       prospective Eligible Assignee as provided in Section 10.06(d), (viii) to
       the Lenders or any prospective assignee or participant thereof, PROVIDED
       that such parties agree to keep such information confidential to the same
       extent required of AEF hereunder and (ix) to AE, to the extent AE is
       providing services to AEF.

10.15  HEADINGS. The headings of the various sections and subsections of this
       Agreement are for convenience of reference only, do not constitute a part
       hereof and shall not affect the meaning or construction of any provision
       hereof.

10.16  NO THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES. The agreement of AEF to make the Loans to
       the Customer on the terms and conditions set forth herein are solely for
       the benefit of the Customer, and no other Person (including, without
       limitation, any other obligor or any contractor, subcontractor, supplier
       or materialman furnishing supplies, goods or services to or for the
       benefit of the Project) shall have any rights hereunder or, as against
       AEF, under any other Loan Document or with respect to the Loans or the
       proceeds thereof.

10.17  SURVIVAL. All representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of
       the Customer contained herein or made in writing in connection herewith
       shall survive the making of Loans hereunder and shall continue in full
       force and effect so long as any of the obligations of the Customer
       hereunder are outstanding. Without limiting the foregoing, the
       obligations of the Customer under Sections 2.08, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03 and
       10.04 shall survive the prepayment or repayment of the Loans and the
       termination of the Commitments.

10.18  LANGUAGE. Each communication and document made or delivered to AEF
       pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be in the
       English language. In the event that any such communication or document is
       translated into English from another language, then, in the event of any
       conflict or inconsistency between the English text and the text of such
       other language, the English text shall prevail.

10.19  DETERMINATIONS BY AEF. To the extent that the terms and conditions of
       this Agreement provide for or contemplate determinations, decisions,
       approvals or consents or any other exercise of discretion (collectively,
       "DETERMINATIONS") to be made or granted by AEF (and whether or not any
       such term or condition expressly so provides), AEF shall have the right
       to make such Determinations in its discretion taking into account the
       interests of the Lenders and may agree with the Lenders that such
       Determinations may be made among some or all of AEF, the Lenders and the
       Security Agent (in which case the Customer shall be bound by such
       Determinations as fully as if such Determinations were made by AEF
       hereunder).



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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Customer Loan Agreement
to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized
Responsible Officers as of the day and year first above written.


                                  CD RADIO INC.



                                  By: /s/ David Margolese
                                     ----------------------
                                     Name: David Margolese
                                     Title: Chairman & CEO


                                  ARIANESPACE FINANCE S.A.


                                  By:   /s/B. Vienne
                                     -----------------------
                                     Name:  Brigitte Vienne
                                     Title: Le Directeur-General

    





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                                                                  ANNEX 1


                               CATEGORY 1 CUSTOMER


1.111  CATEGORY 1 CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS. In order for the Customer to be
       eligible for consideration as a Category 1 Customer pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), AEF shall have determined on the Conversion Commitment Date and
       the Conversion Date, in its discretion, that each of the following
       conditions has been satisfied:

       (a) GENERAL CRITERIA. The Customer shall have an existing business or
           businesses that satisfies or that satisfy the criteria set forth in
           Section 11.02 or 11.03, as determined by AEF based on audited
           financial statements of the relevant Person for the Relevant Period.

       (b) CONTINUATION OF GENERAL CRITERIA. Unless the Customer shall have been
           determined to be a Category 1A Customer or a Category 1B Customer on
           the basis of a Credit Rating in accordance with Section 11.02 and is
           not on "creditwatch" for downgrading by a Major Rating Agency, AEF
           shall determine that it knows of no event or circumstance that would
           prevent such business or businesses from continuing to satisfy such
           criteria through the end of the Tranche B Term.

       (c) OTHER CATEGORY CRITERIA. The Customer shall satisfy, as determined by
           AEF, all other criteria set forth in this ANNEX 1.

           For the purposes of determining whether a Customer satisfies the
           terms and criteria to be determined to be a Category 1C Customer, AEF
           shall disregard any revenues earned or derived by the Customer in any
           country that is not a Permitted Location therefor.

1.112  CREDITWORTHINESS. The creditworthiness of the Customer shall be
       determined by AEF based on the Customer's Credit Rating by S&P (or any
       local affiliate or associated agency thereof) on the Conversion
       Commitment Date as set forth in the table in this Section 11.02 (or an
       equivalent Credit Rating by another Major Rating Agency) (as evidenced,
       in the case of any Credit Rating that is not published and publicly
       available, by a certified copy of a letter from S&P (or any local
       affiliate or associated agency thereof) (or such other Major Rating
       Agency) notifying the Customer of such Credit Rating) PROVIDED that, if
       the Customer has a Credit Rating from more than one Major Rating Agency,
       the lowest such Credit Rating shall apply), or, if not so rated by a
       Major Rating Agency, the Customer may be assigned to one of the three
       subcategories applicable to a Category 1 Customer based on the
       satisfaction of each of the criteria set forth under "Non-Rated Customer
       Criteria" in the table in this Section 11.02, as determined by AEF, on
       the Conversion Commitment Date PROVIDED that, if the Customer does not
       have a Credit Rating, the Customer shall not be assigned to a Customer
       Category higher than that applicable



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       to the credit rating of the sovereign of the jurisdiction in which the
       business of the Customer is primarily conducted or to which such business
       is primarily related (as determined by AEF):

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
====================================================================================================
                                                       NON-RATED CUSTOMER CRITERIA
                             -----------------------------------------------------------------------
                               MINIMUM                                              MINIMUM
                              PRE-TAX          MAXIMUM            MAXIMUM        CONSOLIDATED
                                CASH            TOTAL            LONG TERM         NET WORTH
  CUSTOMER        CREDIT      INTEREST         DEBT TO            DEBT TO          (US$, IN
  CATEGORY        RATING      COVERAGE     CAPITALIZATION     CAPITALIZATION       MILLIONS)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>           <C>             <C>          <C>                <C>              <C>
   1A            A- or         5 to 1            40%                30%              $200
                higher

   1B            BBB+,         3 to 1            50%                40%              $175
                BBB or
                 BBB-

   1C          BB+ or BB       2 to 1            60%                50%              $150
====================================================================================================
</TABLE>

1.113  GUARANTOR. In the event that the Customer does not meet the criteria for
       a Category 1 Customer set forth in Section 11.02, it shall be deemed to
       be a Category 1 Customer if and so long as (a) the obligations of the
       Customer hereunder are guaranteed by a Person or Persons that meet such
       criteria (each, a "GUARANTOR" and, collectively, the "GUARANTORS"), (b)
       such Person or Persons shall have entered into a legal, valid, binding
       and enforceable, irrevocable and unconditional written guaranty of
       payment in favor of AEF, on terms and conditions satisfactory (including,
       without limitation, containing reasonable representations and warranties
       and covenants) to AEF, guaranteeing, so as to be primarily liable for,
       all of the Customer's obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan
       Documents, (c) this Agreement shall have been amended to include
       reasonable conditions precedent, events of default and other appropriate
       provisions relating to the Guarantor and such guaranty, all in a manner
       satisfactory to AEF and (d) AEF shall have received such corporate
       documentation, legal opinions and other items as it shall have requested
       in connection with the foregoing.



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1.114  TERMS AND CONDITIONS. The economic terms applicable to a Category 1
       Customer shall include:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
================================================================================
                                REQUIRED                       MAXIMUM TRANCHE
                 CUSTOMER       DISTRESS          MAXIMUM      B TERM/AVERAGE
 CUSTOMER       TRANCHE B       RECOVERY           TOTAL            LIFE
 CATEGORY         MARGIN          VALUE         ADVANCE RATE     (IN YEARS)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                <C>            <C>              <C>             <C>
   1A              1.00%          50%              100%            10/7
   1B              1.20%          50%              85%             10/7
   1C              1.50%          60%              70%              5/3
=================================================================================
</TABLE>

       If the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer,
       a financial pro forma shall have been derived as provided in Section
       9.02(c)(i) and AEF shall have received commitments to enter into, and
       drafts and copies of executed Qualified Lease Agreements at the times and
       having the features referred to in Sections 12.01(b) and 12.01(c), which
       Qualified Lease Agreements shall result in a Category 1C QL Loan Life
       Cover Ratio of not less than 0.65 to 1.

       Notwithstanding the Customer Tranche B Margins stated above, if the
       economic terms set forth in the table above in this Section 11.04 (other
       than the Customer Tranche B Margins) shall be applicable to the Customer
       solely as a result of ECA Enhancement being procured with respect to the
       Customer, as set forth in Section 2.13, the Customer Tranche B Margin for
       the Customer shall be as set forth below corresponding to the following
       levels of ECA Enhancement procured:
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
               =====================================================
                  ECA PERCENTAGE          CUSTOMER TRANCHE B MARGIN
               -----------------------------------------------------
                 <S>                              <C> 
                 greater than or equal to 85%      1.70%
                 greater than or equal to 70%      2.15%
                 greater than or equal to 50%      2.60%
               ====================================================
</TABLE>


1.115  MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS FROM EXCESS CASH FLOW. If the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 1C Customer, the Customer shall, on each
       Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date (as defined below) falling after the
       Conversion Date, prepay the Tranche B Loan in an amount equal to the
       Applicable Percentage (as defined below) of Excess Cash Flow for the
       Applicable Period (as defined below) ending on or most recently ended
       prior to such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date MINUS an amount (not less
       than zero) equal to the aggregate principal amount of prepayments made
       pursuant to this Section 11.05 calculated by reference to Excess Cash
       Flow for any period falling during such Applicable Period.


       For purposes of this Section 11.05: (a) the "EXCESS CASH FLOW PREPAYMENT
       DATES" means (i) the date falling 180 days after the end of each fiscal
       year of the Customer

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       (or, if earlier, the date that the Customer delivers year-end financial
       statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) for such fiscal year) and (ii)
       each date that a Restricted Payment is made; (b) "APPLICABLE PERIOD"
       means, with respect to any Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date, the period
       commencing on the first day of the fiscal year in which such Excess Cash
       Flow Prepayment Date falls and ending on the last day of the fiscal
       quarter of the Customer ended on or most recently ended prior to such
       Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date, or, if such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment
       Date is the date referred to in clause (i) of the definition of such
       term, the fiscal year of the Customer most recently ended prior to such
       date; and (c) the "APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE" for any period means the
       percentage set forth below opposite the percentage of the Conversion
       Amount remaining outstanding at the close of business in Paris on the
       last day of such period:

                                  Percentage of

               Applicable Percentage          Conversion Amount
               of Excess Cash Flow            Outstanding
               ----------------------         ---------------

                          100%                Greater than 90%

                           75%                Less than or equal to 90%
                                                    and greater than 80%

                           50%                Less than or equal to 80%
                                                    and greater than 60%

                           25%                Less than or equal to 60%


       If the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 1C Customer:
       (a) the Customer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
       to, make any Restricted Payment on any Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date
       falling on or after the Conversion Date unless (i) the aggregate amount
       of all Restricted Payments by the Customer and all of its Subsidiaries
       for the Applicable Period is less than or equal to Unrestricted Excess
       Cash Flow for such Applicable Period not theretofore used for any other
       purpose permitted by any of this Section 11.05, or Section 6.26, 7.07,
       7.14, 7.15 or 13.04 and (ii) such Restricted Payment is not made until
       after the prepayment required by the first sentence of this Section 11.05
       is made in respect of such Applicable Period and (b) the Customer shall
       not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make Restricted
       Payments in respect of any Applicable Period consisting of a full fiscal
       year unless the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments by the
       Customer and all of its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year is less than or
       equal to Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year not
       theretofore used for any other purpose permitted by any of this Section
       11.05 or Section 6.26, 7.07, 7.14, 7.15 or 13.04.


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1.116  FINANCIAL COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1 Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing, the Customer shall not:

       (a) INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to Total Interest
           for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the Customer ending on
           a Measuring Date to be less than:


                                              Interest
                      Customer                Coverage
                      Category                 Ratio
                     ----------              -----------
                         1A                    4.5 to 1
                         1B                    2.75 to 1
                         1C                    2 to 1

       (b) DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to P&I Debt
           Service, for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the Customer
           ending on a Measuring Date to be less than:


                      Customer               Debt Service
                      Category              Coverage Ratio
                     ----------            ----------------
                         1A                     2.5 to 1
                         1B                     2 to 1
                         1C                     1.25 to 1

       (c) MAXIMUM LEVERAGE. Permit its Indebtedness, expressed as a percentage
           of Consolidated Net Worth, to exceed on any Test Date the percentage
           value set forth below opposite the applicable Customer Category:


                      Customer                  Maximum
                      Category                  Leverage
                     ----------               -----------
                         1A                       50%
                         1B                       75%
                         1C                       100%

1.117  NO LIMITATIONS ON SUBSIDIARIES. If the Customer shall have been
       determined to be a Category 1C Customer, the Customer will not permit any
       of its Subsidiaries to enter into, after the date of this Agreement, any
       indenture, agreement, instrument or other arrangement that, directly or
       indirectly, prohibits or restrains, or has the effect of prohibiting or
       restraining, or imposes materially adverse conditions upon, the
       incurrence or payment of Indebtedness, the granting of Liens, the
       declaration or

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       payment of dividends, the making of loans, advances or other investments
       or the sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition of assets, except
       for any prohibition or restraint as to the granting of Liens on, or
       sales, assignments, transfers or other dispositions of, property that is
       (a) subject to a Lien in favor of any other Person (except for the
       Customer or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates) not otherwise
       prohibited by this Agreement or (b) subject to a lease with any Person
       (except for the Customer or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates) not
       otherwise prohibited by this Agreement.

1.118  COMPARABLE FINANCING TRANSACTION COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 1 Customer and (i) is not subject to
       financial covenants in any Comparable Financing Transaction to which it
       is party, the financial covenants set forth in Section 11.06 shall not
       apply or (ii) pursuant to any Comparable Financing Transaction to which
       it is party the Customer is subject to financial covenants not
       substantially similar to the financial covenants set forth in Section
       11.06, such other financial covenants shall be deemed to be set forth in
       this Agreement in the place of the financial covenants set forth in
       Section 11.06.

1.119  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 1C Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing:

       (a) The Customer covenants and agrees that if any Qualified Lease
           Agreement is terminated by the Lessee thereunder (or terminated as a
           result of the Lessee's breach or default thereunder) or otherwise
           ceases to be in full force and effect and is not replaced within
           thirty (30) days of the date of such termination or other event by a
           Qualified Lease Agreement of equivalent value (meaning aggregate rent
           as determined below), the Customer shall, until such time as such
           Qualified Lease Agreement shall be replaced, pay into an escrow
           account established on terms and conditions acceptable to AEF, an
           amount equal to the present value (at a discount rate equal to the
           debt interest rate used in the preparation of the then-current
           Business Plan) of rent that would otherwise be payable under the
           terminated Qualified Lease Agreement for the remaining lease term if
           a termination had not occurred. In the event that a Qualified Lease
           Agreement of equivalent value is entered into by the Customer in
           substitution for the terminated Qualified Lease Agreement after the
           Customer shall have made the payment into an escrow account pursuant
           to the terms of the immediately preceding sentence, and PROVIDED that
           no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
           such amount held in escrow shall be repaid to the Customer less all
           costs and expenses incurred or paid by AEF in connection with the
           foregoing (including, without limitation, fees, costs and expenses
           payable to the escrow agent).

       (b) CERTIFICATES. The Customer shall furnish to AEF, concurrently with
           the delivery of the annual financial statements referred to in
           Section 6.01(a) of this

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           Agreement, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Customer,
           certifying the names and number of the lessees of transponders or
           communications capacity on the Satellite, together with the
           percentage of capacity leased on the Satellite for the current fiscal
           year and the lease payments made to the Customer during the
           immediately preceding fiscal year and the lease payments due and
           payable to the Customer during the current fiscal year.

       (c) NOTICES. The Customer shall promptly notify (in writing) AEF of the
           execution of any amendment or modification to, or termination of, any
           Qualified Lease Agreement or waiver of any right or grant of any
           consent thereunder.

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                                                                      ANNEX 2

                               CATEGORY 2 CUSTOMER


1.121  CATEGORY 2 CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS. In order for the Customer to be
       eligible for consideration as a Category 2 Customer pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), AEF shall have determined on the Conversion Commitment Date
       (except in the case of Section 12.01(c)) and the Conversion Date, in its
       discretion, that each of the following conditions has been satisfied:

       (a) CONVERSION BUSINESS PLAN AND CONVERSION BASE CASE. The Conversion
           Business Plan of the Customer shall have been determined by AEF to be
           acceptable pursuant to Section 9.02(e), and a Conversion Base Case
           shall have been derived.

       (b) QUALIFIED LEASE AGREEMENTS. The Customer shall have executed or
           procured binding commitments to enter into (and as of L minus (-)
           thirty (30) days shall have executed) Qualified Lease Agreements with
           a Lessee or Lessees sufficient to meet the Category 2 QL Loan Life
           Cover Ratio (for each period referred to in the definition of such
           term) set forth in the table in Section 12.02 as of the Conversion
           Commitment Date, which Qualified Lease Agreements shall have the
           following features:

           (i)   either:

                 (A) provisions expressly permitting, without the consent of the
                     Lessee, the assignment of the agreement by the Customer to
                     the Security Agent as security for the Customer's
                     obligations under the Loan Documents;

                 (B) not precluding the assignment of the agreement by the
                     Customer to the Security Agent as security for the
                     Customer's obligations under the Loan Documents; or

                 (C) provisions requiring the consent of the Lessee or
                     counterparty to the assignment of the agreement by the
                     Customer to the Security Agent as security for the
                     Customer's obligations under the Loan Documents, PROVIDED
                     that such assignment has been consented to expressly by the
                     Lessee or counterparty, as the case may be;

                 provided that, in the cases of the foregoing clauses (A) and
                 (B), the Customer shall provide to the Security Agent an
                 acknowledgment of the Lessee or counterparty that it has notice
                 of the assignment by the Customer to the Security Agent as
                 security for the Customer's obligations under the Loan
                 Documents;




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           (ii)  does not contain provisions in the nature of indemnities or
                 other provisions for the payment by the Customer of termination
                 fees, costs or damages (except for customary credits or
                 refunds, not in excess of lease payments under such agreement,
                 for failure to provide services);

           (iii) provisions precluding the Lessee from assigning the agreement
                 to any Person without the consent of the Security Agent;

           (iv)  the agreement shall be governed by the laws of New York,
                 England or such other jurisdiction as may be acceptable to AEF;

           (v)   the transponder being leased is not capable of being preempted
                 under any circumstances or, where the transponder is capable of
                 being preempted at any time before the expiry of a specified
                 period or the occurrence of a specified event, that period has
                 expired or that event has occurred (as appropriate), PROVIDED
                 that the transponder being leased may be capable of being
                 preempted (A) by a Governmental Authority for reasons of
                 national security and (B) under any circumstances with respect
                 to any Qualified Lease Agreement if, after excluding such
                 Qualified Lease Agreement from the relevant calculations, the
                 Customer would satisfy the conditions and covenants set forth
                 in Sections 11.04 and 11.06 (if the Customer shall have been
                 determined to be a Category 1C Customer) or Sections
                 12.01(b)(xii), 12.02 and 12.04(b) (if the Customer shall have
                 been determined to be a Category 2 Customer) on a pro forma
                 basis;

           (vi)  provisions stating that the Lessee shall comply in all material
                 respects with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the
                 use of the transponder(s) (including, without limitation, the
                 content of transmissions into the country in which service is
                 received);

           (vii) provisions prohibiting termination of the lease by the Lessee
                 except for any of the following reasons:

                 (A) material breach or default by the Customer of the
                     agreement;

                 (B) the Lessee's use of the transponder(s) is impaired by
                     reason of force majeure affecting the Satellite for a
                     period of not less than thirty (30) days;

                 (C) the Satellite is removed from its orbital position;

                 (D) there occurs a Launch Failure or, after Launch, a Total
                     Failure or Constructive Total Failure in-orbit with respect
                     to that Satellite;


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                 (E) the failure of the transponder(s) to meet the performance
                     specifications in the agreement (which shall reflect the
                     performance specifications in the Satellite Purchase
                     Agreement); or

                 (F) there occurs a Partial Failure of the transponder assigned
                     to the Lessee, and the Lessee is not entitled to service
                     from another transponder.

          (viii) provisions that all rental and other payments are denominated
                 in and payable in an Acceptable Currency;

          (ix)   provisions requiring the Lessee to pay all amounts payable to
                 the Customer under the agreement directly into the Revenue
                 Account;

          (x)    no provisions restricting the Customer from disclosing copies
                 of the agreement to the Lenders, AEF or the Security Agent;

          (xi)   the QL Weighted Average Term at the time of determination shall
                 be at least as long as the Average Life of the Tranche B Loan;
                 and

          (xii)  the effectiveness of the leasing arrangements thereunder shall
                 be subject only to the following conditions precedent: (A) the
                 successful launch of such satellite, (B) the successful
                 placement of such satellite in a specified orbital position,
                 (C) the successful activation and operation of a minimum
                 percentage of the transponders or communications capacity on
                 such satellite, (D) the satisfactory completion of all in-orbit
                 testing of the Satellite and (E) other reasonable and customary
                 conditions (including as to the posting of a cash security
                 deposit) that, in the determination of AEF, can be met without
                 undue cost, burden or delay.

       (c) AEF shall have received:

           (i)   not later than the Conversion Commitment Date, binding
                 commitments to enter into the Qualified Lease Agreements
                 required hereunder, or confirmations that the Qualified Lease
                 Agreements required hereunder have been entered into, which
                 commitments or confirmations shall be in English or accompanied
                 by a certified translation in English;

           (ii)  not later than L minus (-) forty-five (45) days, substantially
                 final drafts of the Qualified Lease Agreements required
                 hereunder (which may be generic "master" forms of Qualified
                 Lease Agreements), which shall be in English or accompanied by
                 a certified translation in English; and

           (iii) not later than L minus (-) thirty (30) days, copies of the
                 executed Qualified Lease Agreements (in a national language of
                 any of the countries listed in Annex 4 hereto), which (if not
                 in English) shall be

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                 accompanied by a certified translation in English or a written
                 confirmation in English by local counsel acceptable to AEF that
                 such executed Qualified Lease Agreements are identical to the
                 drafts thereof furnished pursuant to the preceding clause (ii)
                 or, if not identical, specifying in English the deviations
                 therefrom.

       (d) NON-SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS. If the Customer shall have any
           Indebtedness outstanding as of the Conversion Date that is not
           Subordinated Indebtedness, the Customer's Category 2 CF Loan Life
           Cover Ratio shall, on the Conversion Date only, in addition to the
           other requirements set forth in this ANNEX 2, be equal to or greater
           than the ratio set forth in Section 12.02 for the Category 2 QL Loan
           Life Cover Ratio corresponding to the applicable Customer Category,
           PROVIDED that this Section 12.01(c) shall not apply so long as the
           Customer shall covenant to limit its senior unsecured Indebtedness on
           a case-by-case basis as agreed between the Customer and AEF based on
           the decision of the Lenders.

       (e) OTHER CATEGORY CRITERIA. The Customer shall satisfy, as determined by
           AEF, all other criteria set forth in this ANNEX 2.

1.122  TERMS AND CONDITIONS. The economic terms applicable to a Category 2
       Customer shall include:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
================================================================================
                                                     MAXIMUM
             MINIMUM                                 TRANCHE B        MINIMUM
             REQUIRED                    MAXIMUM       TERM/       CATEGORY 2 QL
             DISTRESS      CUSTOMER       TOTAL       AVERAGE        LOAN LIFE
 CUSTOMER    RECOVERY     TRANCHE B      ADVANCE        LIFE           COVER
 CATEGORY     VALUE         MARGIN         RATE      (IN YEARS)        RATIO
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>         <C>          <C>            <C>          <C>               <C>
    2A         60%          2.50%          80%          10/7           1.5 to 1
    2B         60%          3.00%          75%          8/6            1.3 to 1
================================================================================
</TABLE>

       If the Customer shall enter into any Qualified Lease Agreements for a
       term that is shorter than the Average Life permitted hereunder, the
       Average Life shall be deemed adjusted to equal such shorter period.

1.123  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 2 Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing:

       (a) The Customer covenants and agrees that if any Qualified Lease
           Agreement is terminated by the Lessee thereunder (or terminated as a
           result of the Lessee's breach or default thereunder) or otherwise
           ceases to be in full force and effect and is not replaced within
           thirty (30) days of the date of such termination or

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           other event by a Qualified Lease Agreement of equivalent value
           (meaning aggregate rent as determined below), the Customer shall,
           until such time as such Qualified Lease Agreement shall be replaced,
           pay into an escrow account established on terms and conditions
           acceptable to AEF, an amount equal to the present value (at a
           discount rate equal to the debt interest rate used in the preparation
           of the then-current Business Plan) of rent that would otherwise be
           payable under the terminated Qualified Lease Agreement for the
           remaining lease term if a termination had not occurred. In the event
           that a Qualified Lease Agreement of equivalent value is entered into
           by the Customer in substitution for the terminated Qualified Lease
           Agreement after the Customer shall have made the payment into an
           escrow account pursuant to the terms of the immediately preceding
           sentence, and PROVIDED that no Default or Event of Default shall have
           occurred and be continuing, such amount held in escrow shall be
           repaid to the Customer less all costs and expenses incurred or paid
           by AEF in connection with the foregoing (including, without
           limitation, fees, costs and expenses payable to the escrow agent).

       (b) CERTIFICATES. The Customer shall furnish to AEF, concurrently with
           the delivery of the annual financial statements referred to in
           Section 6.01(a) of this Agreement, a certificate of a Responsible
           Officer of the Customer, certifying the names and number of the
           lessees of transponders or communications capacity on the Satellite,
           together with the percentage of capacity leased on the Satellite for
           the current fiscal year and the lease payments made to the Customer
           during the immediately preceding fiscal year and the lease payments
           due and payable to the Customer during the current fiscal year.

       (c) NOTICES. The Customer shall promptly notify (in writing) AEF of the
           execution of any amendment or modification to, or termination of, any
           Qualified Lease Agreement or waiver of any right or grant of any
           consent thereunder.

1.124  NEGATIVE COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 2 Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing:

       (a) AMENDMENTS. The Customer shall not amend, supplement or modify any
           Qualified Lease Agreement if the result would be to amend, supplement
           or modify any term set forth in the definition of Qualified Lease
           Agreements and such amendment, supplementation or modification could
           reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

       (b) FINANCIAL COVENANTS. The Customer shall not:


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           (i)   INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to Total
                 Interest for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the
                 Customer ending on a Measuring Date to be less than:


                 at any time on or prior to the first
                 anniversary of the Conversion Date,                   1.2 to 1

                 at any time after the first anniversary and
                 on or prior to the second anniversary of the
                 Conversion Date, and                                  1.5 to 1

                 at any time thereafter                                  2 to 1


           (ii)  DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to P&I
                 Debt Service for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the
                 Customer ending on a Measuring Date to be less than:


                 at any time on or prior to the second
                 anniversary of the Conversion Date, and               1.2 to 1

                 at any time thereafter                                1.5 to 1

           (iii) LEVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of Indebtedness on any Test
                 Date to EBITDA for the period of four (4) fiscal quarters of
                 the Customer ended on or most recently ended prior to such Test
                 Date, to exceed:


                 at any time after the first anniversary
                 and on or prior to the second
                 anniversary of the Conversion Date,                     5 to 1

                 at any time after the second anniversary
                 and on or prior to the third anniversary
                 of the Conversion Date, and                             4 to 1

                 at any time thereafter                                  3 to 1

           (iv)  TOTAL CASH FLOW TO LOAN RATIO. Permit its Category 2 CF Loan
                 Life Cover Ratio, as of each fiscal year-end of the Customer,
                 commencing with the first fiscal year-end following the
                 Conversion Date, to be less than 1.3 to 1.

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                                                                       ANNEX 3


                               CATEGORY 3 CUSTOMER


1.131  CATEGORY 3 CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS. In order for the Customer to be
       eligible for consideration as a Category 3 Customer pursuant to Section
       9.02(e), AEF shall have determined on the Conversion Commitment Date and
       the Conversion Date, in its discretion, that each of the conditions set
       forth in either ANNEX 1 for Category 1 Customers or ANNEX 2 for Category
       2 Customers has not been satisfied. For the purposes of determining
       whether a Customer satisfies the terms and criteria to be determined to
       be a Category 3 Customer, AEF shall disregard any revenues earned or
       derived by the Customer in any country that is not a Permitted Location
       therefor.

1.132  TERMS AND CONDITIONS. The economic terms applicable to a Category 3
       Customer shall include:


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
========================================================================================
                                                             MAXIMUM
                                                            TRANCHE B       CATEGORY 3
            REQUIRED DISTRESS    CUSTOMER     MAXIMUM         TERM/         LOAN LIFE
 CUSTOMER        RECOVERY       TRANCHE B      TOTAL       AVERAGE LIFE       COVER
 CATEGORY         VALUE           MARGIN    ADVANCE RATE    (IN YEARS)        RATIO
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>            <C>            <C>           <C>            <C>              <C>
    3              75%            3.50%         70%            7/5          1.75 to 1
===================================================== ==================================
</TABLE>

1.133  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 3 Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing:

       (a) CERTIFICATES. The Customer shall furnish to AEF:

           (i)   concurrently with the delivery of the annual financial
                 statements referred to in Section 6.01(a), a certificate of a
                 Responsible Officer of the Customer, certifying the number of
                 the Customer's paying subscribers (as applicable), lessees of
                 transponder services or users of communications capacity (as
                 applicable), the nature of the services provided and the
                 obligations related thereto together with the revenues
                 generated therefrom during the immediately preceding fiscal
                 year and the revenues due and payable to the Customer during
                 the current fiscal year.




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           (ii)  on a quarterly basis, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of
                 the Customer showing in detail the calculations supporting each
                 statement in respect of Section 13.05 of this Agreement.

       (b) NOTICES. The Customer shall promptly notify (in writing) AEF of the
           incurrence or prepayment of any Other Indebtedness for Borrowed
           Money.

       (c) DEBT SERVICE RESERVE. If required by AEF and the Lenders pursuant to
           Section 9.01(c), the Customer shall maintain on deposit, in an
           account established for such purpose, immediately available funds in
           an amount not to exceed the aggregate total amount of scheduled
           payments of principal of Indebtedness of the Customer for the next
           six (6) consecutive months, together with the projected aggregate
           total amount of interest due and payable on such Indebtedness for
           such period.

1.134  MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS FROM EXCESS CASH FLOW. If the Customer shall have
       been determined to be a Category 3 Customer, the Customer shall, on each
       Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date (as defined below) falling after the
       Conversion Date, prepay the Tranche B Loan in an amount equal to the
       Applicable Percentage (as defined below) of Excess Cash Flow for
       Applicable Period (as defined below) ending on or most recently ended
       prior to such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date MINUS an amount (not less
       than zero) equal to the aggregate principal amount of prepayments made
       pursuant to this Section 13.04 calculated by reference to Excess Cash
       Flow for any period falling during Applicable Period.

       For purposes of this Section 13.04: (a) the "EXCESS CASH FLOW PREPAYMENT
       DATES" means (i) the date falling 180 days after the end of each fiscal
       year of the Customer (or, if earlier, the date that the Customer delivers
       year-end financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) for such fiscal
       year) and (ii) each date that a Restricted Payment is made; (b)
       "APPLICABLE PERIOD" means, with respect to any Excess Cash Flow
       Prepayment Date, the period commencing on the first day of the fiscal
       year in which such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date falls and ending on
       the last day of the fiscal quarter of the Customer ended on or most
       recently ended prior to such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date, or, if
       such Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date is the date referred to in clause
       (i) of the definition of such term, the fiscal year of the Customer most
       recently ended prior to such date; and (c) the "APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE" of
       Excess Cash Flow for any period means the percentage set forth below
       opposite the percentage of the Conversion Amount remaining outstanding at
       the close of business on the last day of such period:

         Applicable                 Percentage of
         Percentage                 Conversion Amount
         ----------                 -----------------

           100%                     Greater than 90%

            75%                             Less than or equal to 90% and
                                            greater than 80%

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            50%                      Less than or equal to 80% and greater than
                                     60%

            25%                      Less than or equal to 60%

       If the Customer shall have been determined to be a Category 3 Customer:
       (i) the Customer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
       to, make any Restricted Payment on any Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Date
       falling on or after the Conversion Date unless (a) the aggregate amount
       of all Restricted Payments by the Customer and all of its Subsidiaries
       for the Applicable Period is less than or equal to Unrestricted Excess
       Cash Flow for such Applicable Period not theretofore used for any other
       purpose permitted by any of this Section 13.04 or Section 6.26, 7.07,
       7.14, 7.15 or 11.05 and (b) such Restricted Payment is not made until
       after the prepayment required by the first sentence of this Section 11.05
       is made in respect of such Applicable Period and (ii) the Customer shall
       not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, make Restricted
       Payments in respect of any Applicable Period consisting of a full fiscal
       year unless the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments by the
       Customer and all of its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year is less than or
       equal to Unrestricted Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year not used for
       any other purpose.

1.135  FINANCIAL COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 3 Customer, then the Customer covenants and agrees that, from
       and after the Conversion Date and for so long as AEF shall have any
       Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other amount shall remain unpaid,
       unless AEF waives compliance in writing, the Customer shall not:



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       (a) INTEREST COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to Total Interest
           for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the Customer ending on
           a Measuring Date to be less than:


               at any time after the first anniversary and
               on or prior to the second anniversary of
               the Conversion Date,                                     1 to 1

               at any time after the second anniversary
               and on or prior to the third anniversary
               of the Conversion Date,                                 1.5 to 1

               at any time after the third anniversary
               and on or prior to the fourth anniversary
               of the Conversion Date,                                  2 to 1

               at any time after the fourth anniversary
               and on or prior to the fifth anniversary of
               the Conversion Date, and                                2.5 to 1

               at any time thereafter                                   3 to 1


       (b) DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of EBITDA to P&I Debt
           Service for any period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the Customer
           ending on a Measuring Date to be less than:


               at any time after the first anniversary and
               on or prior to the third anniversary of the
               Conversion Date,                                         1 to 1

               at any time after the third anniversary
               and on or prior to the fourth anniversary
               of the Conversion Date,                                 1.5 to 1
              
               at any time after the fourth anniversary
               and on or prior to the fifth anniversary of
               the Conversion Date, and                                 2 to 1

               at any time thereafter                                  2.5 to 1



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       (c) LEVERAGE RATIO. Permit its ratio of Indebtedness on any Test Date to
           EBITDA for the period of four (4) fiscal quarters of the Customer
           ended on or most recently ended prior to such Test Date to exceed:

               at any time after the first anniversary and
               on or prior to the second anniversary of
               the Conversion Date,                                     6 to 1

               at any time after the second anniversary
               and on or prior to the third anniversary
               of the Conversion Date,                                 5.5 to 1

               at any time after the third anniversary
               and on or prior to the fourth anniversary
               of the Conversion Date,                                  5 to 1
    
               at any time after the fourth anniversary
               and on or prior to the fifth anniversary of
               the Conversion Date, and                                 4 to 1

               at any time thereafter                                   3 to 1

1.136  ADDITIONAL COVENANTS. If the Customer shall have been determined to be a
       Category 3 Customer and the Loans to such Customer shall have Converted
       on the basis of a covenant limiting the ratio of debt to equity or any
       other covenants established by AEF and the Lenders pursuant to Section
       9.01(c) as a condition to Conversion, then the Customer covenants and
       agrees to observe and comply with any and all such covenants which shall
       be incorporated into this Section 13.06 as provided in Section 9.01(d).


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                                                                     ANNEX 4

                                LIST OF COUNTRIES

                                     Australia
                                     Austria
                                     Belgium
                                     Canada
                                     Denmark
                                     Finland
                                     France
                                     Germany
                                     Ireland
                                     Italy
                                     Japan
                                     Luxembourg
                                     Netherlands
                                     New Zealand
                                     Norway
                                     Portugal
                                     Singapore
                                     Spain
                                     Sweden
                                     Switzerland
                                     United Kingdom
                                     United States of
                                     America



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                                                                     ANNEX 5

                              ACCEPTABLE CURRENCIES


The currencies of the following countries:

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States of
  America



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                                                                      ANNEX 6

                           LIST OF PERMITTED LOCATIONS


          a)    Permitted Locations for all purposes

                Australia
                Austria
                Belgium
                Canada
                Denmark
                Finland
                France
                Germany
                Ireland
                Italy
                Japan
                Luxembourg
                Netherlands
                New Zealand
                Norway
                Portugal
                Singapore
                Spain
                Sweden
                Switzerland
                United Kingdom
                United States of America

           b)   Permitted Locations for the purposes of Domicile

                i)  Permitted Locations for the purposes of clauses (a) and (b)
                    of the definition of "Domiciled"

                ii) Permitted Locations for the purposes of clause (c) of the
                    definition of "Domiciled"

           c)   Permitted Locations for the purposes of Licensing

           d)   Permitted Locations for the purposes of receiving revenues
                pursuant to Sections 4.02(h) and 4.03(f)

           e)   Permitted Locations for the purposes of Ground Facilities
                pursuant to Section 4.02(i)




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           f)   Permitted Locations for the purposes of earning or deriving
                revenues pursuant to Section 11.01 or 13.01



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                                                                 SCHEDULE 5.03


                              GOVERNMENT APPROVALS



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                                                                 SCHEDULE 5.05


                                   LITIGATION



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                                                                 SCHEDULE 5.10


                            BASE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS



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                                                                 SCHEDULE 5.11


                              ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS



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                                                                SCHEDULE 5.12A


                                  SUBSIDIARIES



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                                                                SCHEDULE 5.12B


                               EQUITY INVESTMENTS



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                                                                SCHEDULE 10.02



                              ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES


CD Radio Inc.
1001 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 10037
USA

Attention:  Mr. David Margolese

Telephone:  (202) 296-6192
Facsimile:  (202) 296-6265

Arianespace Finance S.A.
18, rue Dicks
L-1016 Luxembourg
Telephone:  33 (0)1 6087 6235
Facsimile:  33 (0)1 6087 6488
Attention:  Directeur General

with a copy to:

Arianespace S.A.
Boulevard de l'Europe - B.P. 177
91006 Evry Cedex - France
Telephone:  33 (0)1 6087 6235
Facsimile:  33 (0)1 6087 6488
Attention:  Head, Financing and Risk Management




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                                    EXHIBIT A

                           FORM OF NOTICE OF DRAWDOWN


From:       CD RADIO INC. (the "CUSTOMER")

To:         ARIANESPACE FINANCE S.A. ("AEF")

Dated:


Dear Sirs,

1.     We refer to the agreement (as from time to time amended, varied, novated
       or supplemented, the "CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT") dated July 22, 1997, and
       made between the Customer as borrower and AEF as lender, relating to
       Launch # 1. Terms defined, construed or used in the Customer Loan
       Agreement shall have the same meaning in this notice.

2.     We hereby give you notice that, pursuant to the Customer Loan Agreement
       and on [insert proposed date for making Loan which shall be no earlier
       than nine (9) Business Days and no later than seven (7) Business Days
       after the date of this Notice of Drawdown], we wish to borrow an amount
       of ________________ Dollars ($[ ]) upon the terms and subject to the
       conditions contained therein.

3.     The proceeds of this drawdown:

       (a) are to be utilized for the purposes of capitalizing interest or
           Finance Costs; or

       (b) should be credited into the AE Account.



                                                --------------------
                                                for and on behalf of
                                                CD RADIO INC.



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                                    EXHIBIT B


                        FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE

          Reference is made to the Customer Loan Agreement dated as of July 22,
1997 (as modified and supplemented and in effect from time to time, the
"CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT"), among between CD Radio Inc., as borrower (the
"CUSTOMER") and Arianespace Finance S.A. ("AEF"), as lender, relating to Launch
# 1. Terms defined in the Customer Loan Agreement are used herein with the same
meanings.

          The Assignor named on the reverse hereof hereby sells and assigns,
without recourse, to the Assignee named on the reverse hereof, and the Assignee
hereby purchases and assumes, without recourse, from the Assignor, effective as
of the Assignment Date set forth on the reverse hereof, the interests set forth
on the reverse hereof (the "ASSIGNED INTEREST") in the Assignor's rights and
obligations under the Customer Loan Agreement, including, without limitation,
the interests set forth on the reverse hereof in the Commitments of the Assignor
on the Assignment Date and Loans owing to the Assignor which are outstanding on
the Assignment Date, but excluding accrued interest and fees to and excluding
the Assignment Date. The Assignee hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the
Customer Loan Agreement. From and after the Assignment Date (i) the Assignee
shall be a party to and be bound by the provisions of the Customer Loan
Agreement and have the rights and obligations thereunder to the extent of the
Assigned Interest and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent of the Assigned
Interest, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the
Customer Loan Agreement.

          This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.


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Date of Assignment:

Legal Name of Assignor:

Legal Name of Assignee:

Assignee's Address for Notices:

Effective Date of Assignment
("ASSIGNMENT DATE"):


                             Percentage Assigned of

                             Commitment/Loans

                             (set forth, to at
                                                        least 8 decimals, as a
                                                        percentage of the
                             Amount
                                facility)
                           ---------------

Commitments:                 $                                               %

Loans:


The terms set forth above and on the reverse side hereof are hereby agreed to:

[NAME OF ASSIGNOR], as Assignor
                                          [NAME OF ASSIGNEE], as Assignee


By:
   ----------------------------           By:
   Name:                                     ----------------------------
                                             Name:
   Title:
                                             Title:



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                                    EXHIBIT C

                                  FORM OF NOTE



FOR VALUE RECEIVED, CD RADIO INC., a company incorporated in Delaware (the
"CUSTOMER") hereby promises to pay to the order of ARIANESPACE FINANCE S.A.
("AEF") pursuant to the terms of the Customer Loan Agreement referred to below,
the principal sum [INSERT CONVERSION AMOUNT] Dollars ($[INSERT CONVERSION
AMOUNT]) (or such lesser amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of the Loans made by AEF under the Customer Loan Agreement referred to
below), in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately
available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided in the
Customer Loan Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of
each such Loan, in like money and funds, for the period commencing on the date
of such Loan until such Loan shall be paid in full, at the rates per annum and
on the dates provided in the Customer Loan Agreement referred to below.

This Note is the Note referred to in the Customer Loan Agreement dated as of
July 22, 1997, by and among AEF and the Customer, relating to Launch # 1 (as
amended, modified and supplemented and in effect from time to time, the
"CUSTOMER LOAN AGREEMENT"), and evidences Loans made by AEF under the Customer
Loan Agreement, the principal of and interest on such Loans being secured by
certain Security Documents. Capitalized terms used in this Note have the
respective meanings assigned to them in the Customer Loan Agreement (whether
therein or by reference to another document).

The Customer Loan Agreement provides for the acceleration of the maturity of
this Note upon the occurrence of certain events and for prepayments of Loans
upon the terms and conditions specified therein.

Except as permitted by Section 10.06 of the Customer Loan Agreement, this Note
may not be assigned by AEF to any other Person.




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THE DUTIES OF THE CUSTOMER UNDER THIS NOTE (INCLUDING MATTERS RELATING TO THE
MAXIMUM INTEREST RATE CHARGEABLE HEREUNDER) SHALL, PURSUANT TO NEW YORK GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW SECTION 5-1401, BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.



CD RADIO INC.


By:
            --------------------------------
            Name:
            Title: