Current IPN Developments
In the year 2007 AGILE was launched and on 2008 the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and although these are Earth orbiters, their instruments provide directional discrimination. The Fermi Space Telescope uses both wide-area burst detectors and a narrow-angle telescope, and will have a limited ability to spin itself to place a GRB within the telescope field. MESSENGER's gamma instrument is now fully operational, and is adding data to the IPN. Due to falling power from its RTG, Ulysses last day was June 30, 2009.
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