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Closed-Loop Life Support Sustainability Index (2D)

2D mass-balance simulator for a spacecraft's closed-loop life support system: tune water, oxygen/CO2 and solid-waste recycling closure with sliders, watch orbiting-ring particles break away to a resupply pod, and see the sustainability index and annual resupply mass respond live.

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A crewed spacecraft or habitat cannot resupply water, air and consumables from Earth indefinitely — long-duration missions live or die on how completely their life-support loops close. This 2D companion simulator models the same three independent recycling loops (water, oxygen/CO₂, solid waste) with real per-crew consumption rates, computes an overall sustainability index and the annual resupply mass those loops still leak, and renders the loops as flat orbiting particle rings: watch the fraction that turns red and breaks away to the resupply pod shrink dramatically as you push each loop's closure toward the high 90s, exactly the nonlinear trade-off that governs real ECLSS design.

⚙ Under the hood

Tune water, oxygen/CO2 and solid-waste recycling closure with sliders and watch a 2D mass-balance model of a spacecraft's closed-loop life support system compute the sustainability index and annual resupply mass in real time.

ECLSSlife supportclosed-loopmass balancesustainabilityspacecraft

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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