Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope orbits around Earth once per 95 minutes.
Fermi Telescope was launched on 11 June, 2008. And this year it completed 10 years in orbit. Previously it was called Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) but later in 2008 it was renamed to honour physicist Enrico Fermi.
It has two instruments on board-
1. Large Area Telescope (LAT)
2. Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
Both of these instruments also contain many subsystems.
Fermi has detected the most distant Blazars that are 2.1 billion years old!
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Fermi Telescope was launched on 11 June, 2008. And this year it completed 10 years in orbit. Previously it was called Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) but later in 2008 it was renamed to honour physicist Enrico Fermi.
It has two instruments on board-
1. Large Area Telescope (LAT)
2. Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
Both of these instruments also contain many subsystems.
Fermi has detected the most distant Blazars that are 2.1 billion years old!
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