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Falcon Heavy is intended for flying payloads that are very large or required very high energy orbits. For smaller payloads, Falcon 9 is more cost-effective, which is why SpaceX uses it for Starlink currently.

However, if Starship works, it will drastically reduce cost to orbit and become the workhorse for basically all launches.



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