The primary ground station for the Swift spacecraft is the Malindi Ground Station, which is located in Kenya at 40.1945 degrees east longitude and 2.9956 degrees south latitude. The ground station uplinks spacecraft commands received from the MOC. It also receives spacecraft real-time housekeeping data and forwards it to the MOC in real-time. Malindi also receives and records high rate spacecraft data, then forwards it to the MOC after each contact.