Note Payable	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]
Note Payable	11. Note Payable *$45,000 9.5% Senior Notes* On January 4, 2013, the Company issued $45,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes (“Senior Notes”) due January 4, 2018. Interest is payable quarterly at a rate of 9.5% per annum. The Senior Notes are secured by a first priority security interest in substantially all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ assets. The covenants in the Senior Notes limits the Company’s ability to among other things to, incur additional indebtedness and liens, to sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of the Company’s or subsidiaries assets, merge or consolidate with other companies. The Company is also required to obtain launch and one year in-orbit insurance for the next-generation satellites under the terms of the Senior Notes. The Company must also comply with a maintenance covenant of either having available liquidity of $10,000 (the sum of (a) cash and cash equivalents plus (b) the total amount available to be borrowed under a working capital facility) or a leverage ratio (consolidated total debt to consolidated adjusted EBITDA, adjusted for stock-based compensation, certain other non-cash items and other agreed upon other charges) of not more than 4.5 to 1.0. In connection with the issuance of the Senior Notes, the Company incurred approximately $1,390 of debt issuance costs, which will be amortized through January 4, 2018. For the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the amortization of the debt issuance costs was $70 and $75, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company capitalized all of the interest expense and amortization of the debt issuance costs to construction of the next-generation satellites. As of March 31, 2014, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants.

11. Note Payable

$45,000 9.5% Senior Notes

On January 4, 2013, the Company issued $45,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes (“Senior Notes”) due January 4, 2018. Interest is payable quarterly at a rate of 9.5% per annum. The Senior Notes are secured by a first priority security interest in substantially all of the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ assets. The covenants in the Senior Notes limits the Company’s ability to among other things to, incur additional indebtedness and liens, to sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of the Company’s or subsidiaries assets, merge or consolidate with other companies. The Company is also required to obtain launch and one year in-orbit insurance for the next-generation satellites under the terms of the Senior Notes. The Company must also comply with a maintenance covenant of either having available liquidity of $10,000 (the sum of (a) cash and cash equivalents plus (b) the total amount available to be borrowed under a working capital facility) or a leverage ratio (consolidated total debt to consolidated adjusted EBITDA, adjusted for stock-based compensation, certain other non-cash items and other agreed upon other charges) of not more than 4.5 to 1.0. In connection with the issuance of the Senior Notes, the Company incurred approximately $1,390 of debt issuance costs, which will be amortized through January 4, 2018. For the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the amortization of the debt issuance costs was $70 and $75, respectively. For the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, the Company capitalized all of the interest expense and amortization of the debt issuance costs to construction of the next-generation satellites.

As of March 31, 2014, the Company was in compliance with the financial covenants.