Falcon Heavy launch represents new era for rocket manufacturing

The rocket, which is the largest in the world in terms of payload, launched from Florida on Tuesday, lifting a red Tesla Roadster into an orbit which will take it into the asteroid belt. While the payload itself was merely a whimsical joke or marketing stunt, and not all 3 cores were successfully recovered, the rocket itself proved functional.
Able to lift up to 63,800kg (140,700lb) to Low Earth Orbit, the Falcon Heavy is more than twice as capable as its nearest competitor, the Delta IV Heavy. SpaceX envisages that it will be used to launch heavy military satellites into space, as well as smaller payloads to the Moon and perhaps also Mars.
Despite it being the most capable rocket now in existence, this is not what makes it revolutionary or disruptive to the rocket manufacturing industry. Instead, the core factor is its cost. Designed from the ground up to be reusable, all three first stage cores of the Falcon Heavy can be recovered and then relaunched.