Georgina Torbet
@georginatorbet.bsky.social
Freelance space reporter. Writing featured at The Verge, BBC Science Focus, Digital Trends, and Ars Technica. she/her. contact@georginatorbet.com or signal: georginatorbet.80
NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions www.theverge.com/nasa/776554/...
NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions
The Trump administration continues to push for enormous cuts to NASA’s budget.
www.theverge.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cuts threaten future missions www.theverge.com/nasa/776554/...
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This is an extinction level budget
The NASA budget req would end NASA's participation in ESA's Rosalind Franklin Mars rover (as anticipated) along with MSR, NASA's two Venus probes (DAVINCI and VERITAS) and coop with ESA on theirs (EnVision), and somewhat surprisingly OSIRIS-APEX and Juno, both already in space.
May 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is an extinction level budget
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The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
May 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The NASA planetary science fleet chart if the president’s budget is enacted.
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With the launch of Project Kuiper last night, and China hot on our tail, ESA estimates that by 2050, there will be almost 50,000 large objects in low-Earth orbit. @georginatorbet.bsky.social explains why that's just too many objects.
Starlink’s got company — and orbital overcrowding is a disaster waiting to happen
Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite mega constellation is just the beginning.
www.theverge.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
With the launch of Project Kuiper last night, and China hot on our tail, ESA estimates that by 2050, there will be almost 50,000 large objects in low-Earth orbit. @georginatorbet.bsky.social explains why that's just too many objects.
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Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez framed their brief space tourism flight on a centibillionaire's rocket as path-paving feminism. (It wasn't.)
Neither woman mentioned the ongoing attacks on — and literal erasure of — women and minorities across the American space sciences.
futurism.com/katy-perry-r...
Neither woman mentioned the ongoing attacks on — and literal erasure of — women and minorities across the American space sciences.
futurism.com/katy-perry-r...
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez framed their brief space tourism flight on a centibillionaire's rocket as path-paving feminism. (It wasn't.)
Neither woman mentioned the ongoing attacks on — and literal erasure of — women and minorities across the American space sciences.
futurism.com/katy-perry-r...
Neither woman mentioned the ongoing attacks on — and literal erasure of — women and minorities across the American space sciences.
futurism.com/katy-perry-r...
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According to @arstechnica.com The Trump administration’s FY2026 budget proposal significantly reduces NASA’s science budget—by over 50%.
The most affected domain: Planetary Science, with multiple high-priority missions facing deferral or cancellation. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
The most affected domain: Planetary Science, with multiple high-priority missions facing deferral or cancellation. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…
arstechnica.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
According to @arstechnica.com The Trump administration’s FY2026 budget proposal significantly reduces NASA’s science budget—by over 50%.
The most affected domain: Planetary Science, with multiple high-priority missions facing deferral or cancellation. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
The most affected domain: Planetary Science, with multiple high-priority missions facing deferral or cancellation. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
www.theatlantic.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge www.theverge.com/space/629948...
Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge
The chaos is the point.
www.theverge.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Space science is under threat from the anti-DEI purge www.theverge.com/space/629948...
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With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵
March 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵