CONTRACT

Exhibit 10.1

Pursuant to 17 CFR 240.24b-2, confidential information has been omitted

in placed marked “[***]” and has been field separately with the Securities and

Exchange Commission pursuant to a Confidential Treatment Request.

CONTRACT

Between

Hughes Network Systems, LLC

And

Space Systems/Loral, Inc.

for the

Hughes Jupiter Satellite Program

June 8, 2009

The attached Contract and information contained therein are confidential and

proprietary to Space Systems/Loral, Inc. and Hughes Network Systems, LLC and shall

not be published or disclosed to any third party except as permitted by the terms and

conditions of this Contract.