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What

Adds parachute_events to the flight simulation response: [{name, time}] for every chute that opened.

Why

A client plotting deployment markers can currently only derive them, and only for trigger='apogee'. An altitude-triggered main deploys when the trajectory crosses a height, which no summary scalar encodes — so on a typical drogue-at-apogee + main-at-altitude design, the main is silently unmarkable.

Deriving it from the encoded altitude series is possible but imprecise. That series is downsampled to 25 points, so on a 190 s flight both of this design's descent deployments fall inside a single 7.9 s gap, and interpolating across the kink where the canopy opened lands 0.8–2.1 s out:

chute target derived actual error
Parafoil 400 m 145.62 s 144.79 s +0.83 s
LNC main 350 m 148.48 s 146.37 s +2.11 s

RocketPy already knows the answer exactly. flight.parachute_events carries the real deployment time for every chute, including callable triggers that cannot be derived at all.

Note on the implementation

The field is projected to {name, time} in the service rather than declared on the view and left to the encoder. Encoding the Parachute objects wholesale drags each one's noise_signal — thousands of samples per chute — into every simulate response. Measured before and after; the projection is what keeps the payload sane.

Verification

GET /flights/{id}/simulate -> 200
parachute_events: [
  {"name": "PLD drogue + LNC drogue", "time": 26.68},
  {"name": "Parafoil",                "time": 144.79},
  {"name": "LNC main",                "time": 146.37}
]

Consumer

Paired with RocketPy-Team/jarvis-ts feat/ork-import, which uses this to mark every deployment on the trajectory view instead of only apogee ones. That PR keeps the apogee-only derivation as a fallback, so an older Infinity degrades gracefully rather than losing all markers.

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  • New Features
    • Flight simulation results now include parachute deployment events, showing each parachute’s name and deployment time.

A client plotting deployment markers could previously only derive them, and
only for trigger='apogee': an altitude-triggered main deploys when the
trajectory crosses a height, which no summary scalar encodes. Deriving it from
the encoded `altitude` series is possible but imprecise - that series is
downsampled to 25 points, so on a 190s flight both of Razzo's descent
deployments fall inside a single 7.9s gap and interpolating across the kink
where the canopy opened puts the marker ~2s out.

RocketPy already knows the answer. flight.parachute_events carries the exact
deployment time for every chute that opened, including callable triggers that
cannot be derived at all.

The field is projected to {name, time} in the service rather than declared and
left to the encoder: encoding the Parachute objects wholesale drags each one's
noise_signal - thousands of samples per chute - into every simulate response.
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The flight simulation response now includes parachute deployment events. Each event contains the parachute name and deployment time.

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Parachute deployment events

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event field and projection
src/views/flight.py, src/services/flight.py
FlightSimulation adds an optional parachute_events field. get_flight_simulation populates it with each deployment’s parachute name and deployment time.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e5f34

The new deployment entries are returned at runtime, but API documentation does not describe their fields, limiting client discovery and schema-based integration. This is a bounded usability gap; overall merge risk is low.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e5f34

The change adds a small event projection to the existing simulation endpoint without showing a new privileged operation or persistent-state change. No introduced security issue was established, but access-control coverage and the projection’s incremental serialization cost remain unresolved.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated expansion is additional metadata for the flight selected through the existing endpoint. The changed methods show no new cross-flight lookup, privileged operation or persistence sink. The externally attackable scope remains unresolved because ownership enforcement and deployment access controls were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The inspected controller lookup reads by model ID and rejects missing records. It does not demonstrate a caller-identity or ownership predicate. This lookup predates the projection; the evidence does not establish a PR-introduced authorization bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The response projection limits transmitted event data but does not necessarily avoid transient object serialization. Attribute collection copies missing annotated fields and re-encodes them before the overwrite. The added field can therefore admit the raw event list into that pass; incremental resource cost and material denial-of-service exposure remain unverified because the base provider serializer’s event handling was not established.
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src/views/flight.py (1)

28-28: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Type parachute events in the OpenAPI response schema.

The simulation route returns FlightSimulation, and the service assigns {name, time} records. Any leaves the event fields unspecified in the generated schema, so API clients cannot derive those fields from the response definition.

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+class ParachuteEvent(ApiBaseView):
+    name: str
+    time: float
+
+
 class FlightSimulation(ApiBaseView):
 ...
-    parachute_events: Optional[Any] = None
+    parachute_events: Optional[list[ParachuteEvent]] = None
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Review comment at @src/views/flight.py at line 28:
Replace the Any type on FlightSimulation.parachute_events with an optional list
of a structured event model. Define that model with name and time fields so the
generated OpenAPI response schema exposes both properties.

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- Line 28: Replace the Any type on FlightSimulation.parachute_events with an
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