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Life Support Umbilical Interoperability Simulator

Dock two spacecraft life-support modules through a standardized umbilical interface and see whether their gas, water, power and data connectors are actually interoperable — with live flow, pressure-equalization and power-transfer physics once (and only if) they match.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version
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Docking two spacecraft is only step one — the life-support umbilical that joins them then has to match on four independent layers (gas, water, power, data) before anything actually flows. This simulator lets you dock a second module built to a matched, partially-modified, or fully legacy connector standard, and watches each line mate — or fail to — in real time. When gas lines are compatible, a linear-conductance model equalizes the two modules' tank pressures and reports live mass flow and ΔP; a compatible power line ramps up a real transfer curve; a mismatched line simply stays dark, exactly as it would on a real spacecraft where a "close enough" connector still leaves the crew without air, water, power or comms across the seam.

⚙ Under the hood

Dock two spacecraft modules through a standardized umbilical interface and see whether their gas, water, power and data connectors actually match — with live pressure-equalization and power-transfer physics on every line that does.

space stationdockinglife supportinteroperabilitysystems engineering

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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