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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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 |
2011-01-18 | 3 | 2011 ROSSI Prize awarded to Bill Atwood, Peter Micheleson and the Fermi LAT Team |
2011-08-12 | 4 | 2FGL Catalog (2-year) released |
2011-12-12 | 4 | First GBM Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) Catalog released |
2013-06-28 | 5 | First LAT High-Energy Catalog (1FHL) 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 |
2015-09-16 | 8 | Second LAT High-Energy Catalog (2FHL) released |
2017-02-03 | 9 | Third LAT High-Energy Catalog (3FHL) released |
2018-01-29 | 10 | 2018 Rossi Prize awarded to Colleen Wilson-Hodge and the GBM team |
2018-07-12 | 10 | Association of gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 flare with Ice Cube neutrino events announced |
2019-02-25 | 11 | 4FGL (8-year) Catalog released |
2019-07-03 | 11 | Release of Second Fermi LAT GRB Catalog |
2020-05-22 | 12 | 4FGL-DR2 (10-year) Catalog released |
2021-12-14 | 14 | Light Curve Repository released |
2009-02-19 | 1 | The Fermi team published the results of an analysis of GRB 080916C, the most extreme gamma-ray burst detected |
2017-10-16 | 10 | NASA announced the GBM detection of GRB 170817A, coincident with gravitational wave event |
2008-07-14 | 0 | First GRB detected by the GBM |
2008-08-18 | 1 | First GRB detected by the LAT |
2008-06-28 | 0 | First blazar detected by the LAT |
2017-04-12 | 9 | LAT team delivered the billionth photon to the FSSC |
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 |
2012-03-01 | 4 | First GBM spectral catalog released |
2014-02-25 | 6 | Second GBM GRB catalog released |
2014-02-25 | 6 | Second GBM spectral catalog released |
2016-04-22 | 8 | Third GBM GRB catalog released |
2020-04-14 | 12 | Fourth GBM GRB catalog released |
2021-05-25 | 13 | GBM 10-year spectral catalog released |
2009-01-22 | 1 | Magnetar storm from SGR J1550-5418 observed by Fermi |
2009-05-10 | 1 | The first short GRB (GRB 090510) detected by the LAT places strong limits on Lorentz Invariance |
2011-01-12 | 3 | The detection of hard X-ray variations from the Crab Nebula announced |
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 |
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 |
2015-05-19 | 7 | First GBM Magnetar 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 |
2017-03-16 | 9 | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) detected from tropical storms |
2018-05-09 | 10 | First Fermi GBM TGF Catalog released |
2019-01-14 | 11 | GRB 190114C became the first reported GRB with TeV emission |
2020-04-15 | 12 | Extragalactic giant magnetar flare detected as a short GRB |
2020-06-16 | 12 | GBM Accreting Pulsar 10-year Compendium paper published |
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 |