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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.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted
space-life-support-sustainability ↗ Open standalone

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.

⚙ Under the hood

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.

life supportECLSSsustainabilityclosed-loop recyclingspace habitatmass balance

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

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