{"id":1188,"date":"2009-04-21T05:38:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2009-04-21T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T10:38:31","slug":"updates-from-the-national-space-society-nss-space-elevator-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NSSLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"162\" height=\"72\"  \/>I received this update from Bert Murray, team captain of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssspaceelevator.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NSS Space Elevator Team<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"\/media\/NSSLaserAbsorber.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_NSSLaserAbsorber.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\"  \/><\/a><em>Hi Ted,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This week the NSS Space Elevator Team finish up our laser absorber tests. The the heat from the absorber will be used to heat helium that in turns drives a Stirling Engine. Attach is a photo of a sample absorber heated with the laser. BTW our Test chamber is a modified army surplus ammunition case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers,<br \/>\nBert<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, they are using a Stirling Engine to power their Climber.\u00a0 The last team that tried that was in 2006, I think, the Fischer28 team.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope that NSS fares better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the thumbnail of the Absorber for a larger version of the picture) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this update from Bert Murray, team captain of the NSS Space Elevator Team; Hi Ted, This week the NSS Space Elevator Team finish up our laser absorber tests. The the heat from the absorber will be used to heat helium that in turns drives a Stirling Engine. Attach is a photo of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}