October 19, 2005
TALK ABSTRACT: -------------- The Swift MidEx mission was launched in Nov 2004. Since the commissioning phase, BAT has been operating 9 months and localized 60+ GRBs (as of Aug 2005). The two NFI instruments, XRT and UVOT have been operating for a slightly shorter period. They have detected the afterglows of many of the BAT bursts as well as making follow-up observations of INTEGRAL and HETE bursts. I will present descriptions of the 3 instruments and results, focusing mainly on the BAT, including some results of the BAT all-sky hard x-ray survey.