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r/satellites

19.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 608 upvotes, which works out to 32 per 1,000 members.

32peak upvotes per 1,000 members
19.2Kmembers
608best post
177most comments
58posts 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.

29% 29% 19% 14%
Image 29% Link 29% Video 19% Gallery 14% Text 5% Question 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Every Satellite orbiting earth and who owns them

↑ 608 πŸ’¬ 40 image 2022

Researchers unveil unprecedented satellite that will have to be turned off when it floats over the US: 'This was a pity'

↑ 534 πŸ’¬ 44 link 2025

Built a new satellite tracker / rocket launch site. Any feedback :)?

↑ 363 πŸ’¬ 60 image 2026

It looks like a really bad idea

↑ 343 πŸ’¬ 177 video 2025

Are these one's satellites? maybe StarLink?

↑ 328 πŸ’¬ 68 gallery 2022

Surprised to learn that 60-year-old chip packaging is still in space tech

↑ 305 πŸ’¬ 50 text 2025

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite

↑ 274 πŸ’¬ 70 link 2025

Starlink current operational shells 2026

↑ 268 πŸ’¬ 18 image 2026

Secretive SpaceX satellites operated by US government are shooting disruptive radio signals into space, astronomer accidentally discovers

↑ 258 πŸ’¬ 20 link 2025

Today NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) successfully enters Earth orbit: Atlas V rocket launches NASA laser communications proto…

↑ 219 πŸ’¬ 1 link 2021

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/satellites, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.