The table below lists science milestones, data and software releases, and operations events for the Fermi mission. Dates for science highlights typically reflect the announcement or publication of the result.
Date ↓ | AO Cycle | Event |
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2008-06-28 | 0 | First blazar detected by the LAT |
2008-07-14 | 0 | First GRB detected by the GBM |
2008-08-18 | 1 | First GRB detected by the LAT |
2009-01-22 | 1 | Magnetar storm from SGR J1550-5418 observed by Fermi |
2009-02-19 | 1 | The Fermi team published the results of an analysis of GRB 080916C, the most extreme gamma-ray burst detected |
2009-05-10 | 1 | The first short GRB (GRB 090510) detected by the LAT places strong limits on Lorentz Invariance |
2010-01-14 | 2 | 1FGL Catalog (1-year source catalog) released |
2010-11-09 | 3 | Discovery of Fermi bubbles announced |
2011-01-10 | 3 | GBM team announced the detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) associated with atmospheric pair annihilation events |
2011-01-12 | 3 | The detection of hard X-ray variations from the Crab Nebula announced |
2011-01-18 | 3 | 2011 ROSSI Prize awarded to Bill Atwood, Peter Micheleson and the Fermi LAT Team |
2011-01-20 | 3 | Electron-positron beams from terrestrial lightning observed with Fermi GBM |
2011-02-14 | 3 | First GBM Earth Occultation Catalog of Sources Above 100 keV released |
2011-08-12 | 4 | 2FGL Catalog (2-year) released |
2011-12-12 | 4 | First GBM Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) Catalog released |
2012-03-01 | 4 | First GBM spectral catalog released |
2012-03-07 | 4 | Fermi GBM detects gamma-ray lines from a solar flare |
2013-04-27 | 5 | The brightest GRB (GRB 130427) observed with the GBM occurs |
2013-06-28 | 5 | First LAT High-Energy Catalog (1FHL) released |
2014-02-25 | 6 | Second GBM GRB catalog released |
2014-02-25 | 6 | Second GBM spectral catalog released |
2014-07-22 | 6 | Announcement of the disovery of transitional millisecond pulsars as transient gamma-ray sources |
2014-07-31 | 6 | Classical novae revealed as GeV gamma-ray emitters discovery announcement |
2015-01-09 | 7 | 3FGL Catalog (4-year) released |
2015-05-19 | 7 | First GBM Magnetar Catalog released |
2015-09-16 | 8 | Second LAT High-Energy Catalog (2FHL) released |
2016-04-22 | 8 | Third GBM GRB catalog released |
2016-07-18 | 8 | Outburst of black hole binary V404 Cyg produces record number of GBM triggers |
2016-08-02 | 8 | Fermi GBM Three-year X-ray Burst Catalog released |
2017-02-03 | 9 | Third LAT High-Energy Catalog (3FHL) released |
2017-03-16 | 9 | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) detected from tropical storms |
2017-04-12 | 9 | LAT team delivered the billionth photon to the FSSC |
2017-10-16 | 10 | NASA announced the GBM detection of GRB 170817A, coincident with gravitational wave event |
2018-01-29 | 10 | 2018 Rossi Prize awarded to Colleen Wilson-Hodge and the GBM team |
2018-05-09 | 10 | First Fermi GBM TGF Catalog released |
2018-07-12 | 10 | Association of gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 flare with Ice Cube neutrino events announced |
2019-01-14 | 11 | GRB 190114C became the first reported GRB with TeV emission |
2019-02-25 | 11 | 4FGL (8-year) Catalog released |
2019-07-03 | 11 | Release of Second Fermi LAT GRB Catalog |
2020-01-01 | 12 | The GBM surpasses the 2,704 gamma-ray bursts seen by the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in the 1990's |
2020-04-14 | 12 | Fourth GBM GRB catalog released |
2020-04-15 | 12 | Extragalactic giant magnetar flare detected as a short GRB |
2020-05-22 | 12 | 4FGL-DR2 (10-year) Catalog released |
2020-06-16 | 12 | GBM Accreting Pulsar 10-year Compendium paper published |
2021-05-25 | 13 | GBM 10-year spectral catalog released |
2021-12-14 | 14 | Light Curve Repository released |
2022-01-27 | 14 | 4FGL-DR3 (12-year) Catalog released |
2022-02-28 | 14 | The LAT team has delivered 1.5 billion photons to the FSSC |
2022-04-15 | 14 | 2nd LAT GRB catalog updated to add GRBs detected since the original publication in 2018. |
2022-10-09 | 15 | Fermi detected high-energy emission from GRB 221009A |
2023-07-31 | 15 | 4FGL-DR4 (14-year) Catalog released |
2023-07-31 | 15 | Third Pulsar Catalog released |