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NASA's Kennedy Space Center engagement report

@NASAKennedy - 3.0M followers on X

Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026.

Engagement

Middle of its size range
Per follower
0.042%
of 3.0M followers
Per impression
1.83%
68K views on a typical post
Reach
2.29%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.3K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.067%
46 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
3.57/day
active 77% of days
Peak time
15:00 UTC
Wednesday

A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 3,862 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 68K times each, and 1.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video, 12% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.9K interactions, about 7.9x its own typical post.

Measured over 33 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 1, 2026. Recurring tag: #nasasocial.

Compared with accounts its own size

NASA's Kennedy Space Center's engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 0.042%, NASA's Kennedy Space Center sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,350 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.012% to 0.081%.

p100.002%
p250.012%
p50 (median)0.081%
p750.437%
p902.10%
p99159.9%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 37,350 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 106,576 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.002%
25th percentile0.012%
50th percentile0.081%
75th percentile0.437%
90th percentile2.10%
99th percentile159.9%

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 Wednesday 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.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 6%Busiest hour: 15:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%52K
01:00 UTC-2%53K
02:00 UTC-3%51K
03:00 UTC-4%55K
04:00 UTC-6%44K
05:00 UTC-4%43K
06:00 UTC-4%49K
07:00 UTC-5%53K
08:00 UTC-4%62K
09:00 UTC-3%71K
10:00 UTC-2%74K
11:00 UTC-3%80K
12:00 UTC-2%88K
13:00 UTC-2%97K
14:00 UTC-4%100K
15:00 UTC-2%103K
16:00 UTC-3%100K
17:00 UTC-3%93K
18:00 UTC-2%87K
19:00 UTC-2%82K
20:00 UTC-1%76K
21:00 UTC-1%67K
22:00 UTC-1%58K
23:00 UTC-1%52K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Wednesday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 5%Busiest day: Wednesday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%235K
Monday0%296K
Tuesday-3%292K
Wednesday-1%254K
Thursday-2%248K
Friday-3%256K
Saturday+3%230K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Best tweets

  • Jul 29, 20267.9x their median

    There's a solar eclipse happening on Wednesday, Aug. 12 — and if you're not in the path of totality, you can watch along with us online! Get the details: https://t.co/aAYzLGEqPU https://t.co/7yrWQpTkld

    7.4K2.0K3701653.3M viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20264.6x their median

    Roman is ready for liftoff tomorrow at 7:26 a.m. EDT! The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands vertical at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://t.co/jFxPENJ8KA

    4.8K76411772101K viewsView on X
  • Aug 30, 20264.3x their median

    LIVE: Today’s the day! @NASARoman is getting ready to head to its new home 1 million miles from Earth, where it will change how we view the universe. Liftoff is currently scheduled for 7:26am ET (1126 UTC). https://t.co/fJi2wd5ztm

    4.0K9441991531.6M viewsView on X
  • Aug 29, 20263.2x their median

    T-12 Hours! Tomorrow, we'll be counting down as the Sun comes up for the launch of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is ready to lift off at 7:26 a.m EDT from Launch Complex 39A here at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. https://t.co/0yCTuymiHX

    3.3K546684682K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20263.0x their median

    Pluto's heart is keeping a secret. đź’— NASA's New Horizons found the first evidence that liquid nitrogen recently reached Pluto's surface beneath Sputnik Planitia, the iconic heart-shaped glacier. The discovery suggests Pluto is more active than imagined. https://t.co/RtSZPSNofg https://t.co/F4k89LkXPS

    3.1K4835768173K viewsView on X
  • Aug 5, 20262.9x their median

    Today we remember Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to walk on the Moon, on his birthday! 🎉 Did you know that Armstrong celebrated his 39th birthday while still in quarantine after Apollo 11's return? https://t.co/yobfT9KtaD

    3.1K495673558K viewsView on X
  • Aug 3, 20262.4x their median

    As Apollo 15 returned to Earth 55 years ago today, a first-of-its-kind sample was stowed onboard. For the first time, astronauts had drilled and collected a sample from 2.4 meters beneath the Moon's surface. 🧵A thread… https://t.co/kizaOhdF85

    2.6K398611098K viewsView on X
  • Aug 24, 20262.4x their median

    Roman is packed up and ready to roll! 🚀 NASA's @NASARoman is now encapsulated in the Falcon Heavy fairing ahead of a targeted launch on Aug. 30 from Kennedy. Next stop, the hangar at Launch Complex 39A. https://t.co/VU2E0Sm0G8 https://t.co/bdqTU82Tra

    2.5K3984944273K viewsView on X
  • Aug 28, 20262.0x their median

    .@NASARoman is GO for Launch! NASA and SpaceX mission teams polled “GO” during today's Launch Readiness Review. Liftoff of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is targeted for 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday Aug. 30 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy! https://t.co/qRgUn7pLGO https://t.co/YPQ1OdawIg

    2.1K3624432232K viewsView on X
  • Jul 29, 20261.8x their median

    LIVE: In one month, @NASARoman will lift off to help us study some of the greatest mysteries in the universe! Tune in as NASA experts give an overview of the mission and its status. https://t.co/bLzMMBiQHl

    1.8K33113922894K viewsView on X

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

#nasasocial

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 1.3K interactions against 3.0M followers, an engagement rate of 0.042%. Measured over 33 original posts, its engagement rate beats 70% of 3,862 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 68K times each, and 1.83% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.29% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 3.6 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 77% of days. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 33 posts sampled, 91% carry an image or video, 12% are part of a thread and 58% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 9.9K interactions, about 7.9x its own typical post.

What is NASA's Kennedy Space Center's engagement rate on X?
NASA's Kennedy Space Center (@NASAKennedy) has an engagement rate of 0.042%, based on the median interactions across 33 original posts from the last 30 days against 2,984,746 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.042%, NASA's Kennedy Space Center sits above the 25th percentile of the 37,350 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 @NASAKennedy have real engagement?
Its engagement rate beats 70% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,862 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 @NASAKennedy post?
Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Wednesday is its busiest day, at roughly 3.57 posts per day across the measured window.

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