EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – For the second yr in a row, the Buffalo Payments are at MetLife Stadium for a Monday evening take a look at towards the New York Jets.

Final yr, the Payments and Jets met in Week 1 and regardless of shedding star quarterback Aaron Rodgers – who was making his Jets debut after 18 years in Inexperienced Bay – on the fourth play of the sport to a season-ending Achilles damage, New York discovered a solution to pull out a 22-16 time beyond regulation victory on a walk-off punt return landing by Xavier Gipson.

There may be extra drama surrounding the Jets this time round, too, as proprietor Woody Johnson fired head coach Robert Saleh final week and the group will now be led by defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, whereas the offensive play calling has been taken away from former Payments offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and given to Jets QB coach/passing recreation coordinator Todd Downing.

Keep proper right here all evening for stay updates:

Chuck Clark damage replace

New York Jets security Chuck Clark is questionable to return with an ankle damage. Clark went into the locker room for X-rays.

Buffalo protection will get a cease – 12:06 2nd quarter

New York picked up one first down on a 14-yard reception by Garrett Wilson. Buffalo’s protection stepped up after that. Taron Johnson stopped Breece Corridor for a 1-yard run, Terrel Bernard invaded the backfield to drop Corridor for a 5-yard loss and Aaron Rodgers third-down move was incomplete. Thomas Morstead punted 45 yards and Kaiir Elam was flagged for holding on the return. Buffalo begins from the New York 10-yard line.

Payments go three-and-out – :25 1st quarter

It was the primary possession with out factors. Josh Allen threw incomplete, Ray Davis rushed for 4 yards and a third-and-6 completion to Curtis Samuel was stopped after 4 yards. Sam Martin punted 62 yards to the tip zone.

Jets 10, Payments 7: Garrett Wilson makes sliding landing catch

For no matter purpose, the Payments are helpless once they play towards Breece Corridor. He got here into this recreation averaging simply three yards per carry, however as he has achieved previously, he’s carving up the Payments protection.

He accounted for 57 dashing and receiving yards on New York’s second possession, and that arrange Aaron Rodgers’ five-yard landing move to Garrett Wilson. The Jets matched the Payments TD drive precisely, 9 performs, 70 yards, and the Payments offered no resistance.

Payments 7, Jets 3: Josh Allen punches in landing run on bodily drive

That was fairly a solution by the Payments as they steamrolled their approach down the sector to take a 7-3 lead.

Ty Johnson opened the drive towards his former group with a 12-yard run round proper finish, then Josh Allen hit Dalton Kincaid for a acquire of 14 and he ran over New York’s Tony Adams alongside the sideline. And from there, it was the Ray Davis present because the rookie carried six occasions for 48 yards earlier than Josh Allen plowed in from the 1.

It was nine-play, 70-yard drive, and the Payments even overcame a penalty on the 1 that pushed them again 5 yards.

Jets 3, Payments 0: Greg Zuerlein makes discipline objective on first possession

Buffalo gained the coin toss, deferred because it likes to do, after which the protection went out and appeared fairly uninspiring on the Jets opening possession. New York moved proper downfield and the one factor that stopped Aaron Rodgers was a 3rd down dropped move by Breece Corridor, so the Jets settled for a 34-yard Greg Zuerlein discipline objective.

Rodgers accomplished a 24-yard move to Garrett Wilson to get the Jets into discipline objective place, a play the place Dorian Williams missed an open discipline sort out.

James Cook dinner inactive however Khalil Shakir, Taron Johnson are enjoying for Payments

As anticipated as soon as we noticed that Frank Gore was referred to as up from the follow squad, Cook dinner is not going to be enjoying Monday evening as a result of toe damage he suffered final week in Houston.

Nevertheless, the Payments are getting again their most efficient receiver as Shakir might be again after getting harm in Baltimore after which lacking the Houston recreation.

Additionally, Johnson might be enjoying for the primary time because the first quarter of the season opener towards Arizona when he suffered a damaged forearm. The Payments’ protection has sorely missed Johnson, notably within the final two losses to the Ravens and Texans. His return ought to assist solidify the Payments run protection in addition to his slot protection, the place he’s more likely to see a wholesome dose of the Jets finest receiver, Garrett Wilson who strains up within the slot about one-third of the time.

We already knew defensive sort out Ed Oliver can be inactive, and he’s joined by Cook dinner, LBs Joe Andreessen and Edefuan Ulofoshio, OL Will Clapp, and FS Mike Edwards.

Payments elevate RB Frank Gore from follow squad

We gained’t know for positive whether or not RB James Cook dinner is enjoying till the inactive listing is introduced at 6:45, however a sign that he may not comes through the information that Gore is being added to the 53-man roster.

There may be nonetheless an opportunity that Cook dinner might be obtainable, and maybe Gore is just up in case there’s a flip for the more severe. He may very well be inactive. Or, it may very well be that each gamers might be lively and Gore might be nothing greater than an insurance coverage coverage.

The excellent news for the Payments is that by not elevating a large receiver from the follow squad, that would appear to say that Khalil Shakir goes to play. Like Cook dinner, he was listed as questionable for the sport.

What time is the Payments vs Jets recreation?

• Date: Monday
• Time: 8:15 p.m.
• Place: MetLife Stadium

Who’s favored to win Payments vs. Jets recreation

• Betting line: Payments -1
• Over-under: 41
• Cash line: Payments minus-120 (wager $120 to win $100) and Jets plus-100 (wager $100 to win $100).

After I made my unique decide early within the week, I had the Payments successful the sport. Now that the Jets have switched head coaches, and it’s trying like each Cook dinner and Shakir might be unable to play for an offense that’s already struggling mightily, I’ve to change. My sense is that the Jets protection, which stays probably the greatest within the league, goes to present the Payments’ punchless offense suits, and the Jets are additionally going to get an impressed effort as they play for a brand new head coach, plus could have passing recreation coordinator Todd Downing calling the offensive performs as a substitute of beleaguered Nathaniel Hackett. Jets 20, Payments 16

Who’s saying the Payments vs. Jets recreation

• Play-by-play: Joe Buck
• Analyst: Troy Aikman
• Sideline reporter: Lisa Salters

∎ Cable/Community TV: ESPN. The sport might be obtainable on Spectrum channel 24 in Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, channel 25 in Binghamton, channel 29 in Elmira, channel 30 in Buffalo, channel 43 in Utica.

∎ On-line streaming companies: Along with your TV subscription you may watch in your telephone or pill on ESPN.com, the ESPN cellular app, and ESPN Deportes. You can too watch video games on NFL.com and the NFL cellular app, and you’ll subscribe to NFL+, the league’s personal streaming service, although you may’t forged the video games to your TV – you have to watch in your telephone or pill.

∎ TV streaming: You can too stream when you have subscriptions to Spectrum, DirecTV, fuboTV, NFL+, Sling, Vidgo, Hulu + Reside TV, and YouTube TV.

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On the radio: The best way to take heed to the Payments vs Jets recreation

You’ll be able to hear on SiriusXM satellite tv for pc radio on channel 225 (Payments feed) and channel 226 (Jets feed), and on conventional radio, the Payments Radio Community has stations all throughout the state. Chris Brown has the play-by-play, Eric Wooden is the analyst, and Sal Capaccio is the sideline reporter. The community consists of:

• Rochester (WCMF 96.5 and WROC 950 AM)
• Buffalo (WGR550, 550 AM)
• Syracuse (WTKW 99.5/WTKV 105.5)
• Binghamton (WDRE 100.5FM)
• Ithaca (WIII 99.9/100.3 FM)
• Tub (WVIN 98.3 FM)
• Newark (WACK 1420 AM)
• Dansville (WDNY 93.9 FM)
• Elmira (WNGZ 1490 AM)
• Auburn (WAUB 98.1 FM/1590 AM)
• Geneva (WGVA 95.9 FM, 1240 AM)

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In 2031, the spacecraft will start conducting its science-dedicated flybys of Europa. Coming as shut as 16 miles (25 kilometers) to the floor, Europa Clipper is supplied with 9 science devices and a gravity experiment, together with an ice-penetrating radar, cameras, and a thermal instrument to search for areas of hotter ice and any current eruptions of water. As probably the most subtle suite of science devices NASA has ever despatched to Jupiter, they’ll work in live performance to be taught extra in regards to the moon’s icy shell, skinny environment, and deep inside.

To energy these devices within the faint daylight that reaches Jupiter, Europa Clipper additionally carries the most important photo voltaic arrays NASA has ever used for an interplanetary mission. With arrays prolonged, the spacecraft spans 100 ft (30.5 meters) from finish to finish. With propellant loaded, it weighs about 13,000 kilos (5,900 kilograms).

In all, greater than 4,000 individuals have contributed to Europa Clipper mission because it was formally accredited in 2015.

“As Europa Clipper embarks on its journey, I’ll be desirous about the numerous hours of dedication, innovation, and teamwork that made this second doable,” stated Jordan Evans, challenge supervisor, NASA JPL. “This launch isn’t simply the following chapter in our exploration of the photo voltaic system; it’s a leap towards uncovering the mysteries of one other ocean world, pushed by our shared curiosity and continued search to reply the query, ‘are we alone?’”

Extra About Europa Clipper

Europa Clipper’s three fundamental science targets are to find out the thickness of the moon’s icy shell and its interactions with the ocean under, to analyze its composition, and to characterize its geology. The mission’s detailed exploration of Europa will assist scientists higher perceive the astrobiological potential for liveable worlds past our planet.

Managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California, NASA JPL leads the event of the Europa Clipper mission in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Utilized Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The principle spacecraft physique was designed by APL in collaboration with NASA JPL and NASA’s Goddard House Flight Middle in Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA’s Marshall House Flight Middle in Huntsville, Alabama, and NASA’s Langley Analysis Middle in Hampton, Virginia. The Planetary Missions Program Workplace at Marshall executes program administration of the Europa Clipper mission.

NASA’s Launch Providers Program, based mostly at NASA Kennedy, managed the launch service for the Europa Clipper spacecraft.

Discover extra details about NASA’s Europa Clipper mission right here:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper/

An worker was in for fairly the shock when a president dropped by a McDonald’s in Georgia over the weekend, solely it wasn’t the president she was considering of.

“You Joe? Mr. Joe,” the worker requested former President Invoice Clinton, who was standing in entrance of the money register carrying USA varsity jacket on the fashionable fast-food restaurant.

She instantly corrected herself: “Invoice? Oh my God, hello Invoice!” The worker walked from behind the counter to offer Clinton − not present President Joe Biden − a hug.

“Take my image,” she stated gleefully. “That is Invoice y’all!”

Within the clip, Clinton and the worker are seen smiling whereas her co-workers took photographs of them.

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Clinton was marketing campaign for Harris-Walz within the Peach State

The now-viral McDonald’s interplay was posted by Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Workers Angel Ureña.

“The boss was stumping for @KamalaHarris in Georgia and needed to cease by the outdated stomping grounds, @McDonalds,” Ureña wrote.

Clinton notably went to McDonald’s throughout his personal marketing campaign path, a lot so {that a} plaque was created in his honor at a location in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2000, he was photographed leaving a location in Monroe, Michigan. His lunch order was crispy rooster and fries.

“You already know, it was an everyday factor of mine after I was a non-public citizen, so perhaps I will do it some extra now,” he stated on the time, the Toledo Blade reported.

The ex-president’s current go to comes amid his marketing campaign efforts for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia. The previous president delivered remarks at a Democratic marketing campaign workplace in Columbus on Monday.

“Uniting folks and constructing, being repairers of the breach, as Isaiah says, these are the issues that work,” Clinton stated as he spoke to Peach State voters and organizers. “Blaming, dividing, demeaning — they get you a bunch of votes at election time, however they don’t work.”

Contributing: Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY

Taylor Ardrey is a information reporter for USA TODAY. You’ll be able to attain her at tardrey@gannett.com.

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) — Former President Invoice Clinton on Monday made one other marketing campaign cease in Georgia, urging voters to again Vice President Kamala Harris on Election Day.

The marketing campaign cease got here someday after the previous president urged churchgoers in Albany, Georgia, on Sunday to rally behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign for the workplace he as soon as held.

Watch the previous president’s remarks within the participant above. 

“Uniting folks and constructing, being repairers of the breach, as Isaiah says, these are the issues that work,” Clinton mentioned. “Blaming, dividing, demeaning — they get you a bunch of votes at election time, however they don’t work.”

Whereas Mount Zion Baptist Church was not fairly full, a hefty crowd welcomed Clinton with a standing ovation. Many attendees have been older, however some youthful folks have been dispersed all through the pews.

“I feel it was a terrific development for southwest Georgia to have the previous president come to grace us right this moment in the course of the church service and unfold the phrase about voting, particularly to our younger folks,” mentioned Takisha Campbell.

Georgia is certainly one of seven states seen as pivotal on this yr’s presidential race, and turnout amongst Black voters may maintain the important thing for Democrats to profitable the state’s 16 electoral votes.

Democrat Joe Biden received Georgia in opposition to then-President Donald Trump in 2020 by 11,779 votes out of greater than 5 million solid. That was the primary time a Democrat carried the state since Clinton in 1992. 4 years later, Clinton misplaced the state to Republican Bob Dole however received reelection.

In 1992, Clinton and then-Sen. Al Gore rode a marketing campaign bus by southwest Georgia to courtroom rural voters. Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz revived the strategy earlier this yr by visiting Savannah and Liberty County within the southeastern a part of the state, however they didn’t journey west.

Albany is a historic spot within the Civil Rights Motion, at Mount Zion, Clinton reminisced on a time when politics have been much less polarized and lamented a political local weather that has been poisoned with misinformation.

He pointed to the submit by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., submit on X claiming that Democrats brought on Hurricane Helene, which swept by the southeast final month. And he mentioned Trump’s operating mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who has repeatedly didn’t acknowledge that Trump misplaced the White Home in 2020, was a “sure man” to Trump.

On the Black church, Clinton performed up Harris’ accomplishments and guarantees, together with her involvement in Biden’s work to cut back insulin prices and revive the financial system. He mentioned she would pave the way in which for larger financial alternative, mentioning her plan to supply monetary help for first-time owners.

Regina Whearry, who attended the service, mentioned she wished extra folks knew the previous president was coming. However she appreciated how Clinton touched on each coverage and scripture.

“It was properly wanted as a result of on this space, we have now very low turnout, particularly amongst our Black males,” Whearry mentioned.

Democrats see Clinton as somebody who can mobilize each rural voters and Black voters. However whereas Clinton was acknowledged for his reputation in southern Black communities, it stays to be seen whether or not he can nonetheless encourage Black voters because the inhabitants aware of his presidency grows older. However he didn’t maintain again in describing the stakes on this yr’s race.

READ MORE: Trump is gaining floor with some Black males. Right here’s how Harris can change their minds

“This entire election and the way forward for the nation is popping out to be what individuals who have been kind of on the fence about voting are going to do within the subsequent three and a half weeks,” Clinton mentioned. “It’s the craziest factor I’ve ever seen.”

Black registered voters have overwhelmingly favorable views of Harris and unfavourable views of Trump regardless of his makes an attempt to enchantment to nonwhite voters, in response to a latest ballot from The Related Press-NORC Middle for Public Affairs Analysis. However the ballot additionally exhibits that many Black voters aren’t positive whether or not Harris would enhance the nation total or higher their very own lives.

Albany was an early battleground within the combat for civil rights. The town garnered nationwide consideration as a whole lot of protesters, together with Martin Luther King Jr., have been arrested and jailed in 1961 and 1962.

Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas earlier than he turned president, additionally spoke on the Harris marketing campaign’s Albany workplace, saying he requested the marketing campaign to ship him to rural areas, the place he feels most at residence.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nick Sirianni had one of the best safety in Philadelphia since Lane Johnson, Jason Kelce and Jason Peters anchored the Eagles’ offensive line within the 2017 Tremendous Bowl season.

His youngsters.

Attempting his greatest to deflect consideration from his headline-grabbing taunting of Eagles followers within the waning moments of Sunday’s slim win over Cleveland, Sirianni’s three younger kids tagged together with dad on the postgame information convention.

They squirmed and laughed when Sirianni dropped delicate profanity and have been principally used as an excuse for the fourth-year coach to spend the majority of his time speaking about household quite than soccer.

The trash discuss? The boos that tailed the Eagles into halftime? The “ Hearth Nick!” chants that permeated pockets at Lincoln Monetary Area?

Sirianni made it clear: He can pop off when he’s sad, however Eagles followers have to pipe down after they’re ticked off.

“We thrive off the group after they cheer for us. That’s all I’ll say,” Sirianni mentioned. “When our crowd cheers for us, we thrive off of them. We hear them after they boo. We don’t essentially prefer it. I don’t assume that’s productive for anyone. Once they cheer for us and we’ve acquired them rolling, we like it.”

With time to mirror on his shenanigans and take up public criticism, Sirianni apologized Monday for his habits.

“I’m sorry and upset at how my power was directed on the finish of the sport,” he mentioned. “My power ought to be all in on teaching, motivating and celebrating with our guys. I’ve to have higher knowledge and discernment of when to make use of that power and that wasn’t the time.”

Sirianni — a recurring trash-talker — put a finger to his proper ear and chirped at followers within the first rows on the Linc on Sunday. He took the shine off his workforce and as an alternative supplied extra social media and tabloid fodder for a coach whose job safety is up for each day debate and who — even in victory — received’t win any recognition contests in Philadelphia.

Positive sufficient, Sirianni took a beating Monday for jawing on the followers (and ignited a debate over when it’s acceptable for coaches and athletes to use their youngsters as props in knowledgeable setting).

Retired NFL participant and ESPN analyst Damien Woody known as Sirianni’s antics “ clown habits. This dude is a clown.” Speak present host Joe Giglio mentioned on WIP radio that workforce proprietor Jeffrey Lurie wanted to inform Sirianni “you apologize to the fan base otherwise you pack your workplace up and depart.” Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Mike Sielski wrote that Sirianni’s drawback was that “each outburst like Sunday’s damages the picture he’s speculated to mission and the respect he’s speculated to encourage.”

Sure, this was after an Eagles’ victory.

Jalen Hurts was high quality, the protection was higher, the receivers have been wholesome.

However how far can they go along with Sirianni calling the photographs — all whereas unwilling to take them from a temperamental fan base?

What’s working

Protection. The protection hasn’t actually clicked this season below new coordinator Vic Fangio, however the Eagles did maintain the Browns to simply 16 factors. The Browns, for his or her half, haven’t scored 20 factors in a recreation this season. … Jalen Carter, the ninth decide of the 2023 draft, briefly moved off the bust line and scored his first sack of the season. The Eagles sacked Deshaun Watson 5 instances and the protection held the Browns to three of 12 in third-down conditions. The ten QB hits have been probably the most in additional than a 12 months.

What wants assist

Particular groups. Outdoors of the principally dependable Jake Elliott, the Eagles have struggled on particular groups. They’d a punt blocked in opposition to New Orleans and muffed a punt in opposition to Tampa Bay.

The worst offense got here Sunday when the Eagles appeared poised to nurse a small lead headed into halftime as Elliott lined up for a 57-yard try. All-Pro Myles Garrett acquired his hand on the ball when he jumped over Tyler Steen — a pleasant effort for a 6-foot-4, 272-pounder — for the block. Former Eagles security Rodney McLeod scooped the unfastened ball and ran 50 yards for the rating, topped with a somersault into the tip zone, to tie it 10-all with 14 seconds left within the half.

Refill

A.J. Brown. Brown simply is likely to be probably the most priceless piece of the Eagles’ offense, and his manufacturing was missed through the three video games he was out with a hamstring harm. Brown had six receptions in his return for 116 yards (19.3 avg.) and one landing. He has 100-plus receiving yards in 9 of his final 17 video games performed, together with each video games this season. Since Week 3 of 2023, Brown is tied for probably the most 100-yard receiving video games (9) within the NFL.

Inventory down

Saquon Barkley. It’s probably not his fault the Eagles stored the star working again out of the offense. He completed with simply 18 carries for 47 yards. Don’t count on his restricted manufacturing to be a lot of a problem when he makes an anticipated return this week in opposition to the New York Giants, the workforce that permit him go in free company.

Accidents

The Eagles misplaced some key gamers to harm on Sunday, together with TE Dallas Goedert (hamstring), CB Darius Slay (knee) and OT Jordan Mailata (hamstring). Sirianni mentioned Monday that Mailata could be out not less than two weeks.

Key quantity

200 — Defensive finish Brandon Graham prolonged his workforce report when he performed in his 2 hundredth profession recreation with the franchise. Graham, the thirteenth general decide within the 2010 draft, is having considered one of his higher seasons and has anchored a protection that has didn’t get a lot manufacturing out of their youthful, newest draft picks. The 36-year-old Graham additionally holds the report for many seasons performed with the Eagles — and he hasn’t misplaced any of his spark. Past the numbers, Graham was caught yelling (which no Eagles fan appeared to thoughts) at a number of Browns gamers, particularly offensive sort out Dawand Jones throughout heated pregame warmups.

Subsequent steps

Maybe Sirianni can chirp some extra if the Eagles don’t blow out opponents on their upcoming tender schedule. The Eagles go to the Giants (2-4) on Sunday. They observe with one other highway recreation at Cincinnati (2-4) and return house in November for a recreation in opposition to Jacksonville (1-5). The Eagles ought to be favored to win all these video games — and Sirianni shall be below hearth in the event that they don’t.

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The Las Vegas Raiders are 2-4, and quite a lot of robust questions might be requested about personnel. Particularly when the 2025 NFL Draft rolls round.

Whereas the draft continues to be months away, Raiders famous person Maxx Crosby signaled on his podcast “The Rush” simply who he would not thoughts the Raiders drafting — Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter.

“Me and him been speaking, having some conversations,” Crosby stated. “He is received the suitable head on his shoulders, he is gonna be an issue for years to return. I’d like to have Travis Hunter on the Raiders, I imply, who would not.”

Hunter is each a cornerback and a large receiver and he has dominated at each. At huge receiver, Hunter has 49 receptions for 587 yards and 6 touchdowns. On protection, he has 17 mixed tackles and two interceptions with a go defended and a pressured fumble.

Walter Soccer evaluated Hunter on either side of the ball, and both place seems like a first-round caliber participant.

“As a large receiver, Hunter is a powerful playmaker that may harm defenses downfield,” Walter Soccer’s Charlie Campbell wrote. “Hunter doesn’t have blinding pace like Tyreek Hill or Jaylen Waddle, however Hunter runs effectively and might stretch defenses vertically. He runs good routes and reveals an actual knack for producing late separation from cornerbacks. Hunter is excellent on 50-50 passes and profitable contested catches despite the fact that he doesn’t have mismatch peak for a large out. With severe athleticism, Hunter has wonderful adjustment capability to contort his physique and redirect to place him in place to make the reception. After the catch, Hunter is harmful with the ball in his palms and is able to juking tacklers, breaking tackles, and ripping up yards by means of the secondary.”

Even at cornerback, thought-about Hunter’s weakest of the 2 positions (if one had to decide on), he’s nonetheless an elite participant.

“As a cornerback, Hunter is extraordinarily instinctive and versatile. Hunter’s instincts and imaginative and prescient make him a dynamite zone nook, and he’s able to enjoying off man protection,” Campbell wrote. “He tips quarterbacks, reads their eyes, has fabulous route recognition, and a severe closing burst to eat up floor. Hunter has sufficient dimension and physicality to play press man and is a prepared tackler in run assist. The one query this analyst has about Hunter as a cornerback is his capability to deal with the deep pace receivers he’ll see within the NFL.”

Whether or not Hunter will have the ability to play each positions within the NFL is unsure as of now. Two-way play is probably going out of the query, nonetheless.

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A Minnesota horticulture instructor remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California the place his large gourds have received the highest prize 4 years in a row.

Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minnesota, beat his closest competitor by 6 kilos (2.7 kilograms) to clinch the victory on the 51st World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.

His successful gourd got here in at 2,471 kilos (1,121 kilograms), falling in need of the world document he set final yr with a pumpkin weighing 2,749 kilos (1,247 kilograms).

Gienger, 44, stated that as he has carried out prior to now, he centered on having wholesome soil and well-fed crops however {that a} chilly fall with record-breaking rain possible impacted his pumpkin’s development.

“We had actually, actually robust climate and by some means, a way, I saved on working,” Gienger stated. “I needed to work for this one, and we bought it carried out on the finish, nevertheless it wasn’t by a lot.”

Gienger and his household drove his gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to California.

He stated the enormous pumpkin’s subsequent cease will likely be in Southern California, the place a workforce {of professional} carvers will do a 3D carve on it at a Halloween occasion.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to discover Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and seek for the constructing blocks of life.

With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year journey to the photo voltaic system’s largest planet, NASA has formally retired a “great quantity of danger on the mission,” in response to Jordan Evans, Europa Clipper challenge supervisor at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.

The flight’s preliminary phases went in response to their fastidiously choreographed plan.

The spacecraft lifted off at 9:06 a.m. Pacific time, and the facet boosters that helped gas its fiery ascent broke away from the rocket just a little greater than three minutes into the flight. The primary booster shut down and fell again to Earth a couple of minute later.

The fairing that secured Clipper on the prime of the rocket separated about 4½ minutes into the flight.

After an preliminary eight-minute burn, the spacecraft entered a “coasting orbit” round Earth. A second, shorter engine burn positioned Clipper on a trajectory to exit Earth’s embrace.

Groups on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge applauded when the spacecraft separated from the rocket just a little greater than an hour after the launch. With its twin photo voltaic panels nonetheless folded up tight, the probe resembled a dice.

“Please say goodbye to Clipper on its technique to Europa,” mentioned Pranay Mishra, the mission’s flight director at JPL.

A second spherical of cheers erupted about 5 minutes later, when direct communication with the spacecraft was confirmed.

Mission managers famous indicators that the propulsion system didn’t vent, however the craft rolled into its desired place. That was seen as proof that the propulsion system is working advantageous.

Clipper’s journey to Europa is not going to be direct. It should get a gravity help by sling-shotting round Mars early subsequent 12 months, then boomerang again round Earth in late 2026 earlier than zooming towards Jupiter and the fuel big‘s icy, dynamic moon.

The probe is scheduled to reach in 2030 and collect information for greater than 4 years.

When the mission ends, Clipper will fly itself into considered one of Jupiter’s rocky moons to make sure the spacecraft doesn’t contaminate Europa.

The launch was initially scheduled for Thursday, however Clipper spent that day secured in SpaceX’s hangar to journey out Hurricane Milton. The skies over Florida’s house coast have been clear with few wispy clouds Monday morning.

Scientists have advocated for a Europa mission for many years, ever since NASA’s Galileo probe discovered that the moon possible has a subterranean world ocean, heated by Jupiter’s gravitational forces compressing and stretching the moon’s core because it orbits the fuel big at break-neck velocity.

With water, an power supply within the type of warmth, and doubtlessly natural compounds, scientists say Europa could possibly be hospitable for alien life.

Whereas orbiting Jupiter, Clipper will fly by Europa dozens of occasions and use its array of scientific devices to review the dynamics of the moon’s subterranean ocean and search for natural compounds, a possible indicator of life.

The $5-billion Europa Clipper mission was designed and constructed by JPL . It’s the biggest planetary probe ever constructed by NASA .

To launch the spacecraft, SpaceX employed its Falcon Heavy rocket, a variant of its Falcon 9 with an additional booster strapped to every facet.

Whereas SpaceX normally makes an attempt to get better its boosters, this time, it allow them to fall into the ocean — expending all of their propellant on getting Clipper out of Earth’s gravity as an alternative of saving some gas to land. The fairings that defend the spacecraft because it leaves Earth shall be recovered.

“The neighborhood is de facto lucky to have new rockets with these heavy carry capabilities accessible to them,” mentioned Matthew Shindell, planetary science and exploration curator on the Smithsonian Nationwide Air and Area Museum. “In the event you have been attempting to launch a mission like this a decade in the past, you couldn’t do it.”

Sizzling on the heels of its profitable mid-air booster catch throughout its Sunday Starship Flight 5 mission, SpaceX is making ready to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy House Focus on lunchtime on Monday.

Onboard the three-core automobile is NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which is able to embark on a 12 months’s lengthy expedition to Jupiter’s ocean moon, Europa. NASA believes this moon, characterised by its icy exterior and the ocean beneath it, could comprise proof suggesting that the constructing blocks for all times may exist on one other celestial physique in addition to Earth.

Europa Clipper might be despatched on an Earth escape trajectory to start a virtually six-year mission to its namesake moon. Liftoff of the mission from Launch Advanced 39A is about for 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 UTC). The launch time can transfer earlier by as much as 15 seconds if wanted to keep away from any potential collisions wiht objects in orbit.

Spaceflight Now can have dwell protection starting about an hour and quarter-hour previous to liftoff.

This Falcon Heavy mission is a novel circumstance that may require SpaceX to expend all three of the rocket’s boosters. In most Falcon Heavy flights, the 2 aspect boosters are flown again to Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station after separating from the middle booster, which isn’t recovered.

“Falcon Heavy is giving Europa Clipper its all, sending this spacecraft to the furthest vacation spot we’ve ever despatched, which suggests the mission requires the utmost efficiency,” stated Julianna Scheiman, Director of NASA Science Missions for SpaceX, throughout a prelaunch media teleconference. 

“I don’t find out about you guys, however I can’t consider a greater mission to sacrifice boosters for the place we’d have a chance to find life in our personal photo voltaic system.”

The mission is the sixth and ultimate flight for aspect booster, 1064 and 1065, will make their sixth and ultimate launch. They each beforehand supported the launches of USSF-44, USSF-67, Jupiter-3/EchoStar-24, NASA’s Psyche and USSF-52.

Following the impacts of Hurricane Milton, the mission was initially scheduled for Oct. 13, however NASA and SpaceX determined to delay 24 hours. Through the teleconference, Scheiman stated that was attributable to a difficulty that got here up throughout a prelaunch mission evaluation SpoaceX calls a “paranoia scrub.”

“Throughout that course of, we encountered a high quality management challenge associated to our automobile tubing. And there’s tubing on throughout in several components of the rocket. So one of many issues now we have completed, working actually intently with our NASA Launch Providers Program group, is checked out what, what {hardware} on the automobile was set, was suspect, was wanted to be evaluated as a part of this challenge, and be sure that it had its obligatory checks and validation as wanted,” Scheiman stated.

“So mainly ensuring that each system went by an acceptance check or a validation check or an extra sort of inspection to be sure that the automobile and the {hardware} that’s on the pad vertical proper now is able to fly.”

Tim Dunn, the senior launch director for NASA’s Launch Providers Program (LSP), added that SpaceX introduced up the difficulty late final week and NASA agreed that the difficulty wanted additional work.

“Our groups labored hand in hand for many all of Friday night and all day [Saturday], to get to a really assured threat posture immediately (Sunday) as we went into our launch readiness critiques,” Dunn stated. “So we’re in excellent form, and we do admire SpaceX’s paranoia.”

Whereas the mission doesn’t contain the Federal Aviation Administration’s business launch licensing course of, because it’s a NASA-led mission, the difficulty of the Falcon 9 higher stage anomaly that cropped up through the Crew-9 mission did come up through the prelaunch briefing.

Scheiman stated the Merlin vacuum engine on the second stage of the rocket, which is identical used on a Falcon Heavy, burned for 500 milliseconds after the shutdown command was issued for a deorbit burn.

“That half a second of additional thrust mainly made it such that the second stage re entered the Earth’s ambiance slowly exterior of the established zone for touchdown of that second stage within the South Pacific Ocean,” she stated. “On our automobile, all the things responded because it was supposed. We mainly commanded a backup Merlin vacuum shutdown course of that closed the open engine’s liquid oxygen bleed valve, that efficiently shut down the MVac engine.”

NASA intently adopted together with SpaceX’s evaluation of the difficulty and stated they have been assured within the conclusions reached, but in addition did their very own verifications to be further positive.

“We partnered, clearly, with SpaceX due to the proximity of the Crew-9 mission to the Europa Clipper planetary window and SpaceX introduced us rapidly into that anomaly decision,” Dunn stated. “We held our personal unbiased engineering evaluate board simply the day after our flight readiness evaluate, the place we assessed and cleared Europa Clipper of this anomaly.”

Exploring Europa

The journey to the icy moon of Europa is one thing that has been in dialogue for the reason that late 90s and was envisioned as a successor to the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 1997.

The Nationwide Analysis Council really helpful a mission to Europa in 2013, which got here with an estimated value on the time of about $2 billion. By about 2019, mission value estimates rose to round $4.25 billion and as of now, the mission has a complete value estimate of $5.2 billion.

Totally fueled, the spacecraft clocks in at about 5,700 kg (~12566 lbs.) and is powered by 28 thrusters. For a way of scale, with its photo voltaic panels unfurled, it’s longer than a normal basketball court docket.

Following spacecraft separation from the Falcon Heavy higher stage, Jordan Evans, the Europa Clipper venture supervisor, stated the group will first work to amass the sign from the spacecraft, which is able to take a couple of minutes. That’s adopted about two to 3 hours of Europa Clipper “rolling like a rotisserie to heat up [its] photo voltaic array mechanisms” after which it is going to use what Evans referred to as “thermal knives” to chop the photo voltaic array restraints over the course of roughly half-hour.

“It takes about half-hour for the spacecraft to chop by all 9 per aspect. So, it does eight per aspect after which at about half-hour after the initiation of photo voltaic array separation begin, it cuts the ninth on both aspect,” Evans defined. “That happens about three to three-and-a-half hours after launch and it’ll take a short time for us to determine the state of the automobile following photo voltaic array separation.”

The journey to Europa will take five-and-a-half years, with Clipper set to reach on April 11, 2030. The journey features a Mars gravity help on March 1, 2025, and Earth gravity help in December 2026.

Sandra Connelly, deputy affiliate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, stated she is “tremendous excited” for the mission, stating that it’s “an important a part of our [science] portfolio, as it is going to convey us one step nearer to answering elementary questions on our photo voltaic system and our place in it.”

“Scientists consider Europa has the appropriate circumstances under its icy floor to assist life. Its circumstances are water, vitality, chemistry and stability,” Connelly stated. “To do that, we might be amassing information from 9 devices and one science experiment. Science consists of gathering measurements of the inner ocean; mapping the floor composition and geology; and attempting to find plumes of water vapor which may be venting from the icy crust.”

Whereas it’s at Jupiter, Europa Clipper will make about 50 flybys of Europa at its closest strategy, which is about 25 km (16 mi) above its floor.