SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 late in the afternoon from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The payload was Northrop Grumman’s MRV-MEV-1 satellite servicing satellite. Liftoff was at 5:15 pm ET and into partly cloudy summer skies above the Space Coast. Orbit was achieved at T+07:55, and the payloads were successfully deployed at 35:34 elapsed minutes into the mission.