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3.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 41.8K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.7Mmembers
41.8Kbest post
7.1Kmost comments
200posts 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.

44% 26% 16% 10%
Link 44% Image 26% Text 16% Video 10% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Official 22 FH-Demo 5 Community Content 4 GPS III-3 3 Crew-1 3 🎉 2 Starlink 1-27 2 CCtCap DM-2 1 Official (Starship SN10) 1 SpaceX AMA 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Exclusive behind-the-scenes-footage follows Elon Musk in the moments before the Falcon Heavy launch

↑ 41.8K 💬 1.4K video 2018

Crew Dragon has cleared the tower.

↑ 35.7K 💬 566 image 2020

Falcon 9 launches the secretive Zuma payload and lands its first stage back at Cape Canaveral in this three-photo long exposure composite photograph …

↑ 33.2K 💬 762 image 2018

I made a lucky guess for when it would happen and captured F9 going through the supersonic regime, leaving these beautiful iridescent vapor rings in …

↑ 25.6K 💬 243 image 2018

We are the SpaceX software team, ask us anything!

↑ 23.9K 💬 7.1K text 2020

SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

↑ 19.6K 💬 2.8K video 2016

Elon Musk on Twitter: ...a fully expendable Falcon Heavy, which far exceeds the performance of a Delta IV Heavy, is $150M, compared to over $400M for…

↑ 19.3K 💬 1.3K link 2018

Elon Musk has deleted Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages after Twitter challenge

↑ 19K 💬 838 link 2018

The first stage has landed successfully on OCISLY!

↑ 17.9K 💬 1.2K link 2016

14-shot composite image of SN8 12.5km test flight I made from 5 miles away

↑ 17.5K 💬 398 image 2020

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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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