Koichi Wakata 若田光一 engagement report
@Astro_Wakata - 200K followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 358 interactions against 200K followers, an engagement rate of 0.178%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 2.90% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.93 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #axemu, #gssti, #gaec.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 8, 2026. Recurring tags: #axemu, #gssti, #gaec.
Compared with accounts its own size
Koichi Wakata 若田光一's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 9 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 74% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.178%, Koichi Wakata 若田光一 sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.143% to 0.678%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.678% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 94% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 6% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | +15% | +14% to +16% | 32K |
- 94% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 6% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 368 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 15% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 1, 202626x their median
日本人初の宇宙飛行士秋山豊寛さんのご逝去の報に接し、心よりご冥福をお祈り致します。宇宙探検家協会が毎年開催している世界宇宙飛行士会議で、ソユーズやミールでの宇宙飛行に関して貴重なお話を沢山伺わせて戴いた思い出が蘇ります。生前のご厚情に深く感謝致します。 https://t.co/L2hJweYCGh
- Jul 14, 202623x their median
When you throw a paper airplane on Earth the wings create a lift that pulls it up, but gravity pulls it down; this mix makes it glide forward and down. In microgravity, the wings still create lift, but with nothing to pull the nose down, the lift force causes the plane to turn. If there were enough room, the airplane would fly in loops until it ran out of speed and drifted.
- Aug 11, 202622x their median
// 🚀✨H3ロケット9号機 打上げ成功✨🚀 \\ 本日4時23分31秒に種子島宇宙センターから #H3ロケット9号機 を打ち上げ、 #みちびき7号機 は所定の軌道に投入されました🛰 打上げを見守ってくださった皆さま、 ありがとうございました! #H3F9 https://t.co/qXlIgYsfgT
- Jul 31, 20267.9x their median
Before joining the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), I worked at Japan Airlines. Before my spaceflight in 2013, they printed a special boarding pass to mark the occasion. It was just a fun souvenir that now sits in the JAL Sky Museum, but I sure am glad my return date didn't line up with the ticket - that would have been a very short spaceflight!
- Jul 20, 20266.9x their median
1969年の今日、アポロ11号の月着陸は世界中の人々に大きな感動と宇宙を探究していく事への夢と希望を与えてくれました。1992年のNASA宇宙飛行士候補者訓練クラスではアームストロング船長の講義を受けさせて戴き、感無量だった事を覚えています。今、アルテミスIVによる有人月着陸に向け、月面探査用船外活動宇宙服の開発にAxiom Spaceの宇宙飛行士として参加させて戴いている事は夢のようです。持続的な月面有人宇宙活動の実現に寄与できるよう、宇宙飛行と訓練の経験を生かしてこれからも大きなチームの皆さんと力を合わせて挑戦していきたいと思います。
- Aug 22, 20264.8x their median
ヒューストンから成田へ飛行中、米国のグランドキャニオンの上空を通過しました。高度32,000フィートから見ても壮大ですね。ISSからもグランドキャニオンの写真を撮影する機会が何度かありましたが、やっぱり地上から臨む大峡谷の光景が最も圧倒される最高の景色だと思います。 https://t.co/ciyIYP9FtV
- Jul 27, 20264.7x their median
この写真は2009年の今日スペースシャトルエンデバーの操縦室から撮影したISS「きぼう」日本実験棟です。2009年7月19日にSTS-127ミッションで「きぼう」の船内実験室に船外実験プラットフォームが取り付けられ、「きぼう」は船内と船外の実験環境を有する恒久的な軌道上実験施設として完成しました。宇宙飛行士として開発にも参加させて戴いた「きぼう」のロボットアームで取り付けられたピカピカの全天X線監視装置(MAXI) や 衛星間通信システム曝露系サブシステム(ICS-EF)も映っています。「きぼう」は本当に美しいモジュールです。
- Jul 22, 20264.2x their median
Gummy bears are a popular choice to demonstrate surface tension in space. The bright, familiar candy makes science demonstrations fun and it's a simple way to show how fluids behave differently in space. These simple demos help us understand capillary forces and fluid dynamics crucial for spacecraft design, life support systems, and even research that benefits Earth.
- Aug 20, 20264.1x their median
ジョンソン宇宙センターのプールでスキューバダイビングの技量維持のための潜水を行いました。これは船外活動宇宙服の開発試験で潜水業務を行うために必要な資格維持が目的ですが、今回は月面探査の船外活動の運用開発試験を水中でモニターでき、宇宙服の開発に向け学びの多い貴重な機会になりました。 https://t.co/82jPMvajKJ
- Aug 12, 20263.6x their median
During a spacewalk, the carbon dioxide that an astronaut exhales must be removed. This is done by a "scrubber" inside the spacesuit, but once the scrubber fills up, it must be regenerated before reuse. The new Axiom Space spacesuit, or the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU), features a special CO2 scrubber that uses the vacuum environment of space to regenerate the carbon dioxide removal system — allowing it to be reused repeatedly without swapping out canisters, giving astronauts more flexibility and endurance during future lunar spacewalks!
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 358 interactions against 200K followers, an engagement rate of 0.178%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 12K times each, and 2.90% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.93 post a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 57% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 6% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.2K interactions, about 26x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #axemu, #gssti, #gaec.
- What is Koichi Wakata 若田光一's engagement rate on X?
- Koichi Wakata 若田光一 (@Astro_Wakata) has an engagement rate of 0.178%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 200,433 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.178%, Koichi Wakata 若田光一 sits above the 50th percentile of the 204,880 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @Astro_Wakata have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @Astro_Wakata post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.93 posts per day across the measured window.