00:00When the Falcon Heavy was being planned, people thought big satellites need big rockets,
00:05which isn't wrong in itself. But then something happened that SpaceX itself triggered.
00:10Satellites got smaller, constellations were created, and all of it was initiated by Starlink.
00:18Suddenly, it became more attractive to launch many smaller satellites with lots of affordable
00:23Falcon 9 launches, instead of putting everything on one big rocket.
00:28The Pentagon recognized the potential to develop more resilient and redundant systems,
00:33and they did it too. As a result, the market for heavy lift automatically shrank.
00:39The Falcon Heavy became a victim of its own success. However, the rocket is not dead.
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