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r/aerospace

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

131.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.4K upvotes, which works out to 132 per 1,000 members.

132peak upvotes per 1,000 members
131.8Kmembers
17.4Kbest post
3.4Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

59% 28% 8%
Image 59% Video 28% Link 8% Gallery 3% Text 1% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What is leaking from the flaps?

↑ 17.4K 💬 3.4K video 2026

What in the world is this?

↑ 2.8K 💬 175 image 2023

Chinese private company recovers rocket for test

↑ 2K 💬 344 video 2025

The Great Aerospace Corridor of Los Angeles

↑ 1.8K 💬 98 image 2026

Phenomenal capture of a SpaceX launch

↑ 1.7K 💬 30 video 2022

China's recyclable live rocket

↑ 1.6K 💬 256 video 2023

Chinese civilian aerospace comany Space Pioneer accidentally launched a ground test rocket in June 30 afternoon, the rocket crashed into mountains ne…

↑ 1.5K 💬 156 video 2024

What does the second hatch do?

↑ 1.4K 💬 114 image 2023

Amazing

↑ 1.2K 💬 143 image 2025

A Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engine at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, March 24, 2026.

↑ 1.2K 💬 43 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/aerospace, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/aerospace have?
r/aerospace has about 131.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.4K upvotes, which is 132 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/aerospace?
"What is leaking from the flaps?" reached 17.4K upvotes and 3.4K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/aerospace.
What subreddits are similar to r/aerospace?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/aerospace?
Of the posts we hold, 59% are image posts and 28% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/aerospace?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 10:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (992 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (725 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/aerospace?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/aerospace has 836 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/aerospace, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.