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Extended Mission

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Fermi surveys the high-energy sky for pulsars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts and particle acceleration. Its all-sky monitoring has made it a central observatory for multi-messenger astronomy.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Observatory

TYPE

Telescope

COUNTRY

United States

OPERATOR

NASA / DOE

LAUNCH DATE

Jun 11, 2008

LAUNCH SITE

Cape Canaveral

ORBIT CLASS

LEO

ALTITUDE · KM

494

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

94.49

INCLINATION · DEG

25.58

APOGEE · KM

499

PERIGEE · KM

489

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