The flight was a complete success. To watch the launch starting one minute before liftoff, cue the replay to the 0:16:21 point. This was the first Falcon 9 launch to use a new, shorter engine nozzle on its single second stage Merlin 1D Vacuum engine. The shorter nozzle reduces manufacturing cost and allows increasing launch cadence, but at the cost of reduced second stage performance. It will be used only on missions which do not need the additional performance provided by the original larger nozzle. To accommodate the lower performance of the second stage, the first stage flies a modified trajectory in which the return to launch site booster recovery is done with a single-engine (instead of three) entry burn and a three-engine (instead of one) landing burn.
Stage separation starts at 0:19:40 in the replay and the smaller nozzle is immediately obvious once the second stage starts its burn. Booster landing is at 0:24:40. Starting at 1:20:00, during payload deployment, there are beautiful views of north Africa as the second stage overflies the Nile valley all the way to the Mediterranean with the Nile delta and Sinai peninsula visible toward the end. At 1:39:00 the second stage overflies the Greenland icecap.