Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope surveys the high-energy sky with the Large Area Telescope and Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Together they study pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, black-hole-powered galaxies, cosmic particle acceleration, solar activity, and possible signatures of fundamental physics.
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Identity
- Aliases
- FermiGamma-ray Large Area Space TelescopeGLAST
- Name
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Status
- active
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- Description
- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope surveys the high-energy sky with the Large Area Telescope and Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. Together they study pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, black-hole-powered galaxies, cosmic particle acceleration, solar activity, and possible signatures of fundamental physics.
- Destination
- Near-circular low Earth orbit at approximately 565 km altitude and 25.6° inclination (96.5-minute period) for all-sky gamma-ray observations from 8 keV to above 300 GeV
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Fermi remains active in an extended mission, scanning the full sky about every three hours. Its discoveries include hundreds of gamma-ray pulsars, the enormous Fermi Bubbles above and below the Milky Way, and high-energy counterparts associated with gravitational-wave and neutrino events.
- Programs
- Start Date
- 2008-06-11
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Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/fermi/
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- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 14:48:30 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 22, 2026 at 13:34:02 UTC
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