AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Amendment (“Amendment”) to the Employment Agreement dated as of April 23, 2005, by and between Pradman P. Kaul, an individual resident of the State of Maryland (“Executive”), and Hughes Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (as successor by assumption from Hughes Network Systems, LLC, the “Company”) (as amended from time to time, the “Agreement”), is entered into by the Parties effective April 1, 2016 (the “Effective Date”). Capitalized terms used but not defined shall have the meanings given them in the Agreement. The Company and Executive are referred to as the “Parties” and each as a “Party.”

WHEREAS, the Parties entered into the Agreement setting forth the terms and conditions of Executive’s employment relationship with the Company, and the Company is a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation, a Nevada corporation (“EchoStar”);

WHEREAS, in connection with the execution and delivery of this Amendment, effective as of the Effective Date the Executive and EchoStar have entered into certain stock option agreements (the “Incentive Agreements”) pursuant to the Amended and Restated EchoStar Corporation 2008 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended from time to time, the “Plan”);

WHEREAS, as a material inducement to Executive’s and EchoStar’s respective agreements to enter into the Incentive Agreements, the Parties desire and agree to amend the Agreement as provided in this Amendment to set forth the terms and conditions of the continued employment relationship of the Executive with the Company;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the premises and mutual covenants contained herein (including, without limitation, the Incentive Agreements) and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by each Party hereto, the Parties hereby agree as of the Effective Date as follows:

“Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement or any other agreement between Executive and the Company or any of its Affiliates, if Executive’s employment with the Company is terminated by the Company without Cause at any time during the date ranges set forth in the table below, then the amounts otherwise payable to Executive pursuant to clauses (ii), (iv) and (vi) of this Section 4.4(a) in connection with any such termination shall be equal to the applicable corresponding percentage of such amounts as set forth in the following table:

“6.    NOTICES. Any notice or communication given by any Party hereto to any other shall be in writing and personally delivered or mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or by facsimile, to the following addresses:

if to the Company:

if to the Executive:

The most recent address on file for the Executive at the Company.

Any notice shall be deemed given when actually delivered to such Party at the designated address, or five days after such notice has been mailed or sent by overnight courier, whichever comes earliest. Any person entitled to receive notice may designate in writing, by notice to the other, such other address to which notices to such person shall thereafter be sent.”

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused this Amendment to be duly executed, as of the date first written above.