GLAST (later renamed Fermi) was launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral on 11 June 2008

Artist's conception of Fermi in orbit. The orange box is the blanket which protects the LAT instrument. The long wings are solar panels.

The Fermi spacecraft shortly before launch. The solar panels are folded at the sides. The GBM detector modules and the telemetry antennas can be seen on the left side.

After a year in orbit, a catalog was compiled listing more than 1400 point sources of gamma rays. This image shows the types of sources and their positions in galactic coordinates. It was NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for March 18, 2010.

Ten point sources were chosen to illustrate the various types of objects that Fermi has seen. The bright band across the center is caused by cosmic rays interacting with gas in the plane of the Milky Way. Note the streak in the upper right quadrant caused by the Sun. This was NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for March 21, 2009.