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Rapid Cabin Depressurization Simulator

Interactive hull-breach simulator: a choked-flow orifice equation drives real-time cabin pressure decay after a hull breach, while a physiological time-of-useful-consciousness dose model races the crew to a safe module before hypoxia — breach size, cabin volume, escape distance and crew speed all tunable in real time.

Space & Astronomy2DEasy60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
space-emergency-life-support ↗ Open standalone

A hull breach turns spacecraft life support from a system to manage into a clock to beat. This simulator drives cabin pressure decay from the real choked-flow orifice equation — the same physics that governs how fast air actually leaves through a hole of a given size — and pairs it with a dose-based model of time-of-useful-consciousness drawn from aerospace physiology data, so the danger compounds exactly as pressure keeps falling. Set the breach size, cabin volume, and how far the crew has to travel to reach a sealed safe module, then trigger the breach and watch whether they make it before the consciousness budget runs out.

⚙ Under the hood

Experience the rapid pressure decay in a simulated space capsule as air rushes out through a hull breach. Race against time to reach safety before hypoxia sets in.

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

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