The development of a new multimedia system is now on track after the signing on 8 October 2002 of the AmerHis agreement by Antonio Rodotà, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), alongside the Director General of the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) Vicente Gomez, and Jacinto Garcia Palacios, CEO of Hispasat. The Agreement was signed at the Spanish Embassy in Paris in the presence of the Spanish Ambassador to France and the Chairman of the ESA council.