r/spacex is a subreddit with 3.7M members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and opportunities, and the community frequently discusses spacex, launch, discussion, updates, and starlink.
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Popular Themes in r/spacex
#1
News
: "SpaceX: “Teams recently completed build and acceptance testing of our 1,000th Merlin 1D engine for Falcon’s first stage! With Falcon’s reusability, recovering these engines has enabled continued reliability enhancements, making Merlin one of the most reliable rocket engines ever manufactured”"
14 posts
#2
Opportunities
: "Another SpaceX land swap saga unfolds in South Texas"
3 posts
#3
Money Talk
: "SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry"
2 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "SpaceX submits FCC application for “Launch vehicle communications for test Starship Orbital Return Demo mission launching from Starbase, TX. It is used for a tracking beam.”"
1 post
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Starlink on X: “On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at ~560 km above Earth…” [full tweet inside]"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I made this Starship resin lamp ^^"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/spacex
#1
Spacex
: "Spacex: “Falcon 9 lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, completing the first 35th launch and landing of a booster”"
24 posts
#2
Launch
: "SpaceX: “Falcon 9 lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, completing the first 35th Launch and landing of a booster”"
17 posts
#3
Discussion
: "r/SpaceX Transporter 16 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!"
10 posts
#4
Updates
: "r/SpaceX Transporter 16 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!"
10 posts
#5
Starlink
: "r/SpaceX Starlink 17-16 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!"
8 posts
#6
Struggling
4 posts
#7
Ipo
3 posts
#8
Elon Musk
2 posts
#9
Space
2 posts
#10
City
1 post
Flair Used in r/spacex
#1
Starship
: "External view of Starship from the Starlink dummy satellites!"
33 posts
#2
🚀 Official
: "SpaceX: “Landing burn and splashdown of Starship on Flight 13… The Starship Recovery team has continued gathering imagery of the vehicle, which is still afloat in the Indian Ocean”"
25 posts
#3
Falcon
: "A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound"
12 posts
#4
Company News
: "California regulator apologizes to Musk's SpaceX in settlement over launch restrictions"
12 posts
#5
🧑 🚀 Official
: "Extraordinary video just put out by SpaceX."
4 posts
#6
Artemis III
: "NASA assigns crew for Artemis III, sets aggressive timeline for flying it [new details on Starship role]"
3 posts
#7
Starlink
: "NASA Taps SpaceX’s Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion"
3 posts
#8
Artemis
: "Space Skunk on X: “New video from the [NASA] neutral buoyancy laboratory shows that the HLS mockup has been altered to include two airlocks… Also the elevator is noticeably longer than before.”"
2 posts
#9
Crew Dragon
: "NASA to add 6 missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract"
2 posts
#10
🔧 Technical
: "Severe failure during Raptor testfire at McGregor"
2 posts
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Last updated: August 2, 2026