NASA SWIFT : When is launch date?

THe grb Swift satelite seems to have no launch date and has been put
back to the beginning of 2004 (thats now?)Yet no response from an
email I sent NASA and no updates as to what is happening on the SWIFT
website. Does anybody know the status of SWIFT and when it is to be
launched and become operational?

[[Mod. note -- You might also want to try posting to sci.space.science,
as there are a lot of people there knowledgable about space-science
missions. -- jt]]

Thanks in advance
Sean

sean wrote:
THe grb Swift satelite seems to have no launch date and has been put
back to the beginning of 2004 (thats now?)Yet no response from an
email I sent NASA and no updates as to what is happening on the SWIFT
website. Does anybody know the status of SWIFT and when it is to be
launched and become operational?

[[Mod. note -- You might also want to try posting to sci.space.science,
as there are a lot of people there knowledgable about space-science
missions. -- jt]]

Thanks in advance
Sean

The official Swift launch date is September 2004 according to
the Web site at Swift.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Regards,
Tom McGlynn

[[Mod. note -- My new usenet server requires a valid domain on the
"From:" line of all outgoing articles, so I had to edit the sender's
anti-spam address. My apologies for any extra spam this lets through...
-- jt]]

(sean) writes:
THe grb Swift satelite seems to have no launch date and has been put
back to the beginning of 2004 (thats now?)Yet no response from an
email I sent NASA and no updates as to what is happening on the SWIFT
website. Does anybody know the status of SWIFT and when it is to be
launched and become operational?

Both swift.gsfc.nasa.gov and heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov have the currently
scheduled launch dates printed on their respective Swift main pages.
September 2004.

Craig

[ I'm not speaking for the Swift project, only noting the dates listed
on the project pages. ]