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Franceโ€™s Avoids a Debt Downgrade From Moodyโ€™s, but Is Given a Warning

23 October 2026 at 22:51
Moodyโ€™s held the countryโ€™s credit rating steady amid political uncertainty and a rise in borrowing costs that have worsened Franceโ€™s debt situation.

ยฉ Pool photo by Teresa Suarez

President Emmanuel Macron of France with ministers in Paris on Thursday.

NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue

23 October 2026 at 22:48

During a lengthy news conference NASA on Friday provided a detailed overview of how it plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface, as soon as 2028, as part of its Artemis Program.

Although much of the information behind these plans has been previously reported in Ars Technica and elsewhere, this marked the first time NASA has laid them out in detail and acknowledged some substantial changes in the architecture.

Most notably, for SpaceX's Starship vehicle, the revised plan calls for the Orion spacecraft to dock with the Starship lunar lander in high-Earth orbit before transiting to the Moon. And for Blue Origin, the mission architecture includes four launches of the New Glenn rocket, but no spacecraft-to-spacecraft refuelings. Additionally, the Blue Origin plans allows for the possibility of its Blue Moon lander rendezvousing with Orion in low-Lunar orbit.

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