Build Your Own Fermi Satellite

  • Released Thursday, April 23, 2020
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With a printer, scissors, glue and wooden skewers, you can make your own replica of the Fermi spacecraft. Grab the files to make your own here: https://go.nasa/papermodels

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Music Credit: "Bahama Beats" from Universal Production Music

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

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Building paper models of spacecraft is a fun, interactive way to learn more about NASA's missions. Watch this video to see how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope paper model comes together, then try making your own. (If you like this project, you can explore making models of other NASA spacecraft here.

Launched on June 11, 2008, Fermi observes the cosmos using the highest-energy form of light. Mapping the entire sky every three hours, Fermi provides an important window into the most extreme phenomena of the universe, from gamma-ray bursts and black-hole jets to pulsars, supernova remnants and the origins of cosmic rays.

Want to know more about Fermi? Check out these links:
Fermi news

Fermi: Our Eyes on the Gamma-Ray Sky

Fermi Learning Center

And watch #NASAatHome to find out about some other fun ways to interact with NASA science and missions at home.

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This page was originally published on Thursday, April 23, 2020.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.

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