Lars Blackmore ✓

@larsblackmore · joined 24 Apr 2012

Sr. Principal Mars Landing Engineer for SpaceX

21 816Followers

100Following

693Posts total

1.6MViews on collected posts

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Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore11 Feb

Thank you Eric! That is very kind. 23.8K views · 525 likes · 11 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore10 Feb

Congratulations to @larsblackmore, who as much as anyone is responsible for Falcon 9 landings, on being elected to the National Academy of Engineering. https://t.co/JgctivlveD 64K views · 1.1K likes · 53 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore27 Aug 2025

We’re so back 67K views · 2.1K likes · 93 reposts · 51 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore3 Jan 2025

This forward flap redesign consumed many months of my life. In theory they’re better on all metrics - excited to see whether that holds in reality! 351K views · 5.3K likes · 231 reposts · 180 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore3 Jan 2025

The vehicle’s forward flaps have been reduced in size and shifted towards the vehicle tip and away from the heat shield, significantly reducing their exposure to reentry heating while simplifying the underlying mechanisms and protective tiling. The ship’s heat shield will also 567.4K views · 4.8K likes · 244 reposts · 65 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore18 Oct 2024

We hit the target! A huge amount of progress required to make this happen 195.6K views · 4K likes · 166 reposts · 82 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore23 Jun 2024

Five years ago we gambled on an entirely new way of entering a vehicle from orbit (flaps, not wings) and until Flight 4 there was still a chance that this method, and the ship that was designed around it, would fundamentally not work (2/3) 164.6K views · 1.3K likes · 87 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Lars Blackmore ✓@larsblackmore23 Jun 2024

Somewhat belated on account of my appendix getting deleted…but landing Starship on the ocean feels as significant as Falcon 9’s first landing (1/3) 210.7K views · 874 likes · 37 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

210.7K23 Jun

164.6K

195.6K18 Oct

567.4K3 Jan

351K

67K27 Aug

64K10 Feb

23.8K11 Feb

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%23 Jun

0.88%

2.18%18 Oct

0.90%3 Jan

1.64%

3.41%27 Aug

1.80%10 Feb

2.34%11 Feb

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes91.8%20 081 in total

Reposts4.2%922 in total

Replies2.1%450 in total

Quotes0.2%47 in total

Bookmarks1.7%370 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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