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                                                                     Exhibit 3.4

                AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                                LORAL ORION, INC.
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         Loral Orion, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware, hereby amends and restates its Certificate of
Incorporation as follows:

         1. The name of the corporation (the "Corporation") is Loral Orion, Inc.
The date of filing of its original Certificate of Incorporation with the
Secretary of State was January 22, 1988, and the name under which the
corporation was originally incorporated is Orion Satellite Corporation.

         2. The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State
of Delaware is 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New
Castle. The name of the registered agent of the Corporation at such address is
The Corporation Trust Company.

         3. The nature of the business of, and the purpose to be conducted or
promoted by, the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for
which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware.

         4. The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have
authority to issue is one thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock, par value
$.01 per share.
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         5. In furtherance and not in limitation of the power conferred by
statute, the by-laws of the Corporation may be made, altered, amended or
repealed by the stockholders or by a majority of the entire board of directors.

         6. Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under
the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the
application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed
for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the
Delaware Code, order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of
the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may
be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in
number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of
creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this
Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to
any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or
arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization
shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made,
be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all
stockholders or

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class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this
Corporation.

         7.       Elections of directors need not be by written ballot.

         8. (a) The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent permitted
under and in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware any person who
was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending
or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the
Corporation as a director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of or in any
other capacity with another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines
and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in
a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.

                  (b) Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action,
suit or proceeding shall (in the case of any action, suit or proceeding against
a director of the Corporation) or may (in the case of any action, suit or
proceeding against an officer, trustee, employee or agent) be paid by the
Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or
proceeding as



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authorized by the Board upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the
indemnified person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined
that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in
this paragraph.

                  (c) The indemnification and other rights set forth in this
paragraph shall not be exclusive of any provisions with respect thereto in the
by-laws or any other contract or agreement between the Corporation and any
officer, director, employee or agent of the Corporation.

                  (d) Neither the amendment nor repeal of this paragraph 8,
subparagraph (a), (b) or (c), nor the adoption of any provision of this
Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with paragraph 8, subparagraph (a),
(b) or (c), shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this paragraph 8,
subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c), in respect of any matter occurring before such
amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision or in respect of any
cause of action, suit or claim relating to any such matter which would have
given rise to a right of indemnification or right to receive expenses pursuant
to this paragraph 8, subparagraph (a), (b) or (c), if such provision had not
been so amended or repealed or if a provision inconsistent therewith had not
been so adopted.
                  (e) No director shall be personally liable to the Corporation
or any stockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for any matter in respect of which such director (A) shall be
liable under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
or any amendment

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thereto or successor provision thereto, or (B) shall be liable by reason that,
in addition to any and all other requirements for liability, he:

                  (i) shall have breached his duty of loyalty to the Corporation
         or its stockholders;

                  (ii) shall not have acted in good faith or, in failing to act,
         shall not have acted in good faith;

                  (iii) shall have acted in a manner involving intentional
         misconduct or a knowing violation of law or, in failing to act, shall
         have acted in a manner involving intentional misconduct or a knowing
         violation of law; or

                  (iv) shall have derived an improper personal benefit. If the
         General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware is amended after the
         date hereof to authorize corporate action further eliminating or
         limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a
         director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the
         fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of
         Delaware, as so amended.

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         This Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly
adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said Corporation has caused this Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by Janet T. Yeung, its Vice
President and Assistant Secretary, this 8th day of March, 2002.


                                            By:/S/ JANET T. YEUNG
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                                               Janet T. Yeung
                                               Vice President and
                                               Assistant Secretary