The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: Looking Towards The Future

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been surveying the high-energy gamma-ray sky for the past three and a half years. Operating from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has discovered over a thousand new high-energy gamma-ray sources, uncovered many new classes of gamma-ray emitting objects, observed surprising variable and transient objects and placed limits on potential gamma-ray signatures of new physics. A second instrument, the gamma-ray burst monitor which operates from 8 keV to 40 MeV, has been busy detecting gamma-ray transients from thunderstorms, solar flares, magnetars and gamma-ray bursts. These observations have revolutionized our knowledge of the high energy universe. The mission has operated primarily in a survey observing mode, which enables the LAT to view the entire sky every 3 hours. However as the mission progresses there has been an increasing number of pointed mode observations to enhance the sensitivity at particularly interesting regions of the sky. All gamma-ray data is immediately made publicly available via the Fermi Science Support Center. In this poster, I will summarize the current status of the Fermi mission and operations, and will describe the new opportunities and science prospects with Fermi over the next five years.