TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16685 SUBJECT: Swift Mission Operations Center Moving DATE: 14/08/12 18:19:27 GMT FROM: Jamie A. Kennea at PSU/Swift-XRT Jamie A. Kennea (PSU) on behalf of the Swift Mission Operations Center reports: The Swift Mission Operations Center (MOC), located near the Penn State University Park campus, is planning to move to a new office building on Tuesday August 26th starting at 8:00am Eastern Time (12:00 UT). This move is expected to take no more than 72 hours to complete. In the week leading up to the move (from Tuesday August 19th), the Swift schedulers will be creating science plans with a longer lead time than usual. This will affect our ability to schedule TOO requests into the observing plan at the last minute, so we ask that requesters consider this when submitting TOOs during this period and submit earlier if possible. During the move itself, we will not accept any new TOO requests, Swift will not perform automated XRT/UVOT observations of BAT triggers (we will continue to distribute BAT GRB detections through GCN), and the Penn State Swift website will be offline. A program of pre-planned observations will be performed by Swift during the period of the move, so science data will continue to be collected. However, until the MOC is operational, data taken during this period will not be delivered to the Swift Science Data Center, so there will be a delay in being able to obtain the processed data products from these observations. At the end of the 72 hour period, we expect all Swift capabilities to be fully restored. However, it is likely that some capabilities will return sooner than that.