Attachment Rider to Bond

This document pretains to SAT-LOA-20030827-00177 for Application to Launch and Operate on a Satellite Space Stations filing.

IBFS_SATLOA2003082700177_398389

      F&E               Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland
                                   Home Office: P.O. Box 1227, Baltimore, MD 21203—1227
      Grely                                                                              Bond No. 08727120
                                                          RIDER


      To be attached to and form a part of License Bond, No. 08727120 dated the 7th*" day of January, 2004 issued by the
FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, as Surety, on behalf of EchoStar Satellite LL.C.(formerly
known as EchoStar Satellite Corporation), as Principal, in the maximum penal sum of FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
($5,000,000.00) and in favor of the United States Treasury, as Obligee.

    In consideration of the premium charged for the attached bond, and in accordance with revised rules governing bonds for
Geostationary Satellite authorizations, In the Matter of Amendment of the Commission‘s Space Station Licensing Rules and
Policies, First Order on Reconsideration and Fifth Report and Order, FCC 04—147, 2004 FCC LEXIS 3782, which become
effective on September 20, 2004, 69 Fed. Reg. 51586 (Aug. 20, 2004), it is hereby agreed that the attached bond be amended
as follows:

      1.   The maximum penal sum of the bond is hereby decreased from FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($5,000,000.00) to
THREE MILLION DOLLARS ($3,000,000.00).

     2.   Upon completion of each milestone, confirmation of which will be filed with the FCC by the Principal, and issuance
of a Public Notice confirming same, the maximum penal sum of the bond shall be reduced by $750,000.00 via a rider to this
bond sent to the Federal Communications Commission and the Obligee.

      Provided, However, that the attached bond shall be subject to all its agreements, limitations and conditions except as
herein expressly modified, and further that the liability of the Surety under the attached bond and the attached bond as
amended by this rider shall not be cumulative.

      This rider shall become effective as of the 20th day of September, 2004.

      Signed, sealed and dated this 16th day of September, 2004.



ATTEST:                                                         EchoStar Satellite        j formerly known as EchoStar
                                                                Satellite Corpor ior.1


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ACCEPTED:                                                       FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


BY:
Marlene H. Dortch




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                                      Power of Attorney
                       FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND
                    COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, and the
COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, corporations oftheSya{e\(fifgaryland by PAUL C.
ROGERS, Vice President, and T. E. SMITH, Assistant Secretary, in pursuance of{qulhomty        y Article V1I, Section 2,
of the By—Laws of said Companies, which are set forth on the reverse SLd/cs{hpmridare’h’ere
                                                                                        yt i\(lfied to be in full force
and effect on the date hereof, does hereby nominate,conslntyle«gmgz
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                                                                              |§§]§    3        , JR., Shelley
CZAJKOWSKI, Celeste T. HELMS, Garry L,.]                E)ISIKfare                          AMona D. WEAVER, Deanna
M. ROBICHAUD and Amy WICKE'!Z\ ,\aflpmni*er
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                                             %’true and ]awfu] agent and Attorney—in—Fact,
to make, execute, seal anddfil.l\
                              bt,‘ Bea‘its b               'Afs ty\nn as its act and deed:      any and all bonds and
undertakings and the: qqu   (m 6 such
                                    befidg;'    \m @fiikmflsin pursuance ofthese presents, shall be as binding upon said
Companies, as tully‘ah afil oly, toat Iflj afnd’purposes as if they had been duly executed and acknowledged by the
regularly elected ofhegsp’3N fi\e\cdm any at its office in Baltimore, Md., in their own proper persons. This power ofattorney
revokes that issued omfiéhffff'ot William M. O‘CONNELL, JR., Deborah L. POPPE, Shelley CZAJKOWSKI, Celeste T.
HELMS, Garry L. WESSELINK, Karen A. FEGGESTAD, Amy WICKETT, dated April 15, 2003.
 The said Assistant Secretary does hereby certify that the extract set forth on the reverse side hereofis a true copy of Article VI,
Section 2, of the By—Laws of said Companies, and is now in force.
  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said Vice—President and Assistant Secretary have hereunto subscribed their names and
affixed the Corporate Seals of the said FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, and the COLONIAL
AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, this 2 1st day of April, A.D. 2004.

ATTEST:                                                        FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND
                                                        COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY




                                               I¥UVIL . P
                                          T. E. Smith          Assistant Secreral_\ Paul C. Rogers                  Vice President
   State of Maryland      55
   City of Baltimore

  On this 21st day of April, A.D. 2004, before the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of Maryland, duly
commissioned and qualified, came PAUL C. ROGERS, Vice President, and T. E. SMITH. Assistant Secretary of the
FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, and the COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND
SURETY COMPANY, to me personally known to be the individuals and officers described in and who executed the
preceding instrument, and they each acknowledged the execution of the same, and being by me duly sworn, severally and
each for himself deposeth and saith, that they are the said officers of the Companies aforesaid, and that the seals affixed to the
preceding instrument is the Corporate Seals of said Companies, and that the said Corporate Seals and their signatures as such
officers were duly affixed and subscribed to the said instrument by the authority and direction ofthe said Corporations.
   IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal the day and year first above
written.




                                                                          Dennis R. Hayden                  Notary Public
                                                                              My Commission Expires: February 1, 2005




POA—F 020—5028


             EXTRACT FROM BY—LAWS OF FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND


  "Article VI, Section 2. The Chairman of the Board, or the President, or any Executive Vice—President, or any of the Senior
Vice—Presidents or Vice—Presidents specially authorized so to do by the Board of Directors or by the Executive Committee,
shall have power, by and with the concurrence of the Secretary or any one ofthe Assistant Secretaries, to appoint Resident
Vice—Presidents, Assistant Vice—Presidents and Attorneys—in—Fact as the business of the Company may require, or to
authorize any person or persons to execute on behalf of the Company any bonds, undertaking, recognizances, stipulations,
policies, contracts, agreements, deeds, and releases and assignments of judgements, decrees, mortgages and instruments in
the nature of mortgages,...and to affix the seal of the Company thereto."

          EXTRACT FROM BY—LAWS OF COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY


  "Article VI, Section 2. The Chairman of the Board, or the President, or any Executive Vice—President, or any of the Senior
Vice—Presidents or Vice—Presidents specially authorized so to do by the Board of Directors or by the Executive Committee,
shall have power, by and with the concurrence of the Secretary or any one of the Assistant Secretaries, to appoint Resident
Vice—Presidents, Assistant Vice—Presidents and Attorneys—in—Fact as the business of the Company may require, or to
authorize any person or persons to execute on behalf of the Company any bonds, undertaking, recognizances, stipulations,
policies, contracts, agreements, deeds, and releases and assignments of judgements, decrees, mortgages and instruments in
the nature of mortgages,...and to affix the seal ofthe Company thereto."


                                                        CERTIFICATE


  I, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary of the     FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, and the
COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, do hereby certify that the foregoing Power of
Attorney is still in full force and effect on the date ofthis certificate; and I do further certify that the Vice—President who
executed the said Power of Attorney was one of the additional Vice—Presidents specially authorized by the Board of Directors
to appoint any Attorney—in—Fact as provided in Article VI, Section 2, of the respective By—Laws of the FIDELITY AND
DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, and the COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY.
 This Power of Attorney and Certificate may be signed by facsimile under and by authority ofthe following resolution ofthe
Board of Directors of the FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND at a meeting duly called and held on
the 10th day of May, 1990 and of the Board of Directors of the COLONIAL AMERICAN CASUALTY AND SURETY
COMPANY at a meeting duly called and held on the 5th day of May, 1994.
  RESOLVED: "That the facsimile or mechanically reproduced seal of the company and facsimile or mechanically
reproduced signature of any Vice—President, Secretary, or Assistant Secretary of the Company, whether made heretofore or
hereafter, wherever appearing upon a certified copy of any power of attorney issued by the Company, shall be valid and
binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manually affixed."
  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the corporate seals ofthe said Companies,


this        16th     day of        September                 , 2004



                                                                                   CCbtdonasex
                                                                                           Assistant Secretary



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Document Modified: 2004-09-28 11:21:49

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