SpaceX has reused a Falcon 9 rocket for a record breaking seventh time during its most recent mission to put another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. It comes as the Elon Musk-owned space launch firm is preparing for the first high altitude test flight of its mammoth Starship prototype spaceship - dubbed SN8. Launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 02:13 GMT this morning, the Falcon 9 flight was the seventh time that particular first stage booster had been used. This beat the previous record for a booster of six trips and helps Musk in his mission to bring down the cost of launching payloads from the Earth by reusing equipment. SpaceX was able to recover the booster from the Atlantic Ocean using a drone flight - which means it may be able to fly for an eighth time in the future.

I was super happy that I had the opportunity to present at a world class Machine Learning event in Warsaw, Poland. People from research organizations from all over the world attended ML in PL. I had been looking forward to all of the deeply technical talks, but I was grateful to the organizers that we could start the day by taking a step back and reflecting a bit on the ethics of what we do. It's an important topic and doesn't receive the attention that it should. As Machine Learning people, we work on technologies that are super powerful.

SpaceX says it lost the Falcon Heavy's center core after'rough sea conditions' caused it to topple over as it was being transported back to the Florida coast. Elon Musk's rocket company managed to make history on Thursday when it landed three boosters back on Earth for the first time, following the Falcon Heavy megarocket's successful second launch into space. But as ocean swells continued to rise, wave heights caused the center core to fall off of the company's drone ship, dubbed'Of Course I Still Love You,' which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Verge. SpaceX says it lost the Falcon Heavy's center core (pictured) after'rough sea conditions' caused it to topple over as it was being transported back to the Florida coast'Over the weekend, due to rough sea conditions, SpaceX's recovery team was unable to secure the center booster for its return trip to Port Canaveral,' SpaceX said in a statement. 'As conditions worsened with eight to ten foot swells, the booster began to shift and ultimately was unable to remain upright.

One month after landing its first-stage rocket booster on a drone ship, SpaceX repeated the feat and launched a commercial communications satellite late Thursday night. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 10:21 p.m. PST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, and video of the event was streamed live. Weather conditions pushed the launch from Wednesday to Thursday. The Falcon 9 rocket carried the JCSAT-14 satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The satellite, operated by the Japanese communications company SKY Perfect JSAT Corp., will replace another of the firm's satellites and provide coverage to Asia, Oceania, Russia and the Pacific Islands.