The AGILE Gamma-Ray Mission

AGILE is an ASI space Mission dedicated to high-energy astrophysics. The satellite was launched on April 23, 2007 in a quasi-equatorial low-background orbit. The AGILE instrument is very compact and designed to simultaneously detect and image photons in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV and 18 - 60 keV energy bands with excellent imaging and timing capabilities, and an unprecedently large field of view covering 1/5 of the entire sky at energies above 30 MeV. A CsI calorimeter is also capable of independently GRB triggering in the energy band 0.35-50 MeV. AGILE successfully completed the satellite testing and in-orbit scientific calibration during the period May-November, 2007. The AGILE Cycle-1 scientific program (open to guest observers) started on December 1, 2007. The first AGILE scientific results will be reviewed including the detections of several remarkable blazars, Galactic sources and transients, GRBs.