TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 6825 SUBJECT: Update on Swift Status DATE: 07/09/26 12:33:10 GMT FROM: Neil Gehrels at GSFC Neil Gehrels (NASA-GSFC) reports on behalf of the Swift team: This is an update on Swift status following earlier Circulars (Gehrels 6760; Barthelmy et al. 6781; Burrows et al. 6791). The current instrument status is that BAT is fully turned on with all triggers enabled, XRT is fully turned on and performing science observations and calibrations, and UVOT is turned off for approximately one additional week depending on spacecraft slew performance testing this week. Limited autonomous slewing to new GRBs was reinstated this week (Sept 24). Initially the Automated Target (AT) mode is only being enabled during normal working hours of the flight operations team at the Penn State operations center. Several methods for improving the slew accuracy of the redundant gyro system now in use are being tested to enable full-time AT slewing. An experiment to lower the BAT trigger threshold in order to detect weaker bursts was originally planned for the current time frame. It is now delayed and will occur no sooner than the end of the year. More information will follow as we continue to recover observatory capability.