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, space, launch, starship, and rocket.
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Popular Themes in r/spacex
#1
News
: "Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding"
14 posts
#2
Opportunities
: "SpaceX finally files for IPO, targets $1.75 trillion valuation"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/spacex
#1
Spacex
: "Spacex: “Starship stacked on the pad at Starbase”"
225 posts
#2
Space
: "SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry"
102 posts
#3
Launch
: "SpaceX: “Launch rehearsal complete. During a flight-like countdown, more than 5,000 metric tonnes (11+ million pounds) of propellant were loaded on the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy V3 vehicles for the first time”"
90 posts
#4
Starship
: "SpaceX: “Starship stacked on the pad at Starbase”"
52 posts
#5
Rocket
: "A Falcon 9 Rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound"
43 posts
#6
Starlink
: "Starlink announces they now have 10M active customers (up from 8M on 6 Nov 2025)"
39 posts
#7
Ipo
: "SpaceX finally files for Ipo, targets $1.75 trillion valuation"
35 posts
#8
Nasa
: "Nasa shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return"
26 posts
#9
Moon
: "A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound"
19 posts
#10
Artemis
: "Best of luck to the crew of Artemis II! (Link to Official NASA Broadcast)"
19 posts
Flair Used in r/spacex
#1
Starship
: "External view of Starship from the Starlink dummy satellites!"
22 posts
#2
🚀 Official
: "SpaceX: “Starship stacked on the pad at Starbase”"
19 posts
#3
Falcon
: "“New SpaceX Falcon 9 price increase, up from $70 to $74 million a launch and from $6000 to $7000/kg rideshare”"
9 posts
#4
Company News
: "California regulator apologizes to Musk's SpaceX in settlement over launch restrictions"
8 posts
#5
Crew Dragon
: "NASA to add 6 missions to SpaceX commercial crew contract"
3 posts
#6
HLS
: "NASA has shuffled its Artemis rockets. But what of the lunar landers?"
3 posts
#7
Artemis III
: "Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027"
2 posts
#8
Starlink
: "Update - Leo Labs on X: “LeoLabs detected a fragment creation event involving SpaceX Starlink 34343 on 29 March 2026…detected tens of objects in the vicinity of the satellite…likely caused by an internal energetic source rather than a collision” [more inside]"
2 posts
#9
🔧 Technical
: "Severe failure during Raptor testfire at McGregor"
2 posts
#10
Cargo Dragon
: "SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers science and supplies to space station"
2 posts
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Last updated: June 1, 2026