SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launches its first satellite into a rapidly changing market
A lot has changed since SpaceX first unveiled its huge Falcon Heavy rocket in 2011.
The company's chief executive, Elon Musk, has laid out his plans to colonize Mars. Work has progressed on Starship, an even bigger, next-generation spaceship and rocket booster system. And satellite operators are shifting from massive, commercial satellites bound for a high, geostationary orbit to smaller, more capable devices that require less of a boost into space.
Does that mean the Falcon Heavy - which made its debut last year, launching Musk's red Tesla Roadster toward Mars and landing its two side boosters simultaneously back on Earth - is out of a job?
Not yet.
While Starship will eventually take
