Closed-Loop Life Support Sustainability Index
Simulate a spacecraft's closed-loop life support system: tune water, oxygen and solid-waste recycling efficiency and watch the mass-balance math decide whether a crew is truly self-sufficient or slowly bleeding resupply mass.
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 simulator models 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 orbiting particle rings in 3D: 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.
Tune the recycling efficiency of a spacecraft's water, oxygen and solid-waste loops and watch the mass-balance math decide the annual resupply mass and overall sustainability index.
3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install