Abengoa has been awarded three new projects in the aerospace and defense sectors by Airbus DS and the European Space Agency (ESA). These will be carried out over the course of 2017. First of all, Abengoa will undertake the design, the production and the validation checks of the automatic equipment for the Centralized Multi-Functional Unit (CMFU) for Airbus Defense and Space which controls the launcher's sequential electronics for the Ariane 6 rocket. Abengoa will also undertake the design, the production and the validation of automatic testing equipment for the receiving antenna and Eutelsat's Quantum telecommunication satellite geo-localization unit.