The arrays, supplemented by nickel-hydrogen batteries during eclipse, provided 1800 watts of power.
It also carried a Maritime Communications Services (MCS) package for INMARSAT.
The Intelsat V F-5 satellite was successfully launched into space on 28 September 1982 at 23:17:00 UTC, by means of an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, United States.
[5] The launch was originally scheduled for the night of 23 September 1982 but was postponed to 28 October due to a power supply failure in another, identical, satellite.
[6][7] It was launched on 28 September after engineers found the issue was not caused by a design flaw in the satellite.