diff --git a/src/services/flight.py b/src/services/flight.py
index 489b120..b19873c 100644
--- a/src/services/flight.py
+++ b/src/services/flight.py
@@ -500,6 +500,15 @@ def get_flight_simulation(self) -> FlightSimulation:
             ],
         )
         flight_simulation = FlightSimulation(**encoded_attributes)
+
+        # Project the deployment list down to name + time. Encoding the
+        # Parachute objects wholesale drags each one's noise_signal - thousands
+        # of samples per chute - into every simulate response, and a client
+        # plotting deployment markers needs neither.
+        flight_simulation.parachute_events = [
+            {"name": parachute.name, "time": deploy_time}
+            for deploy_time, parachute in self.flight.parachute_events
+        ]
         return flight_simulation
 
     def get_flight_kml(self) -> bytes:
diff --git a/src/views/flight.py b/src/views/flight.py
index cc6f00a..5097c27 100644
--- a/src/views/flight.py
+++ b/src/views/flight.py
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ class FlightSimulation(ApiBaseView):
 
     message: str = "Flight successfully simulated"
 
+    # [{name, time}] for every chute that opened, projected in the service
+    # from RocketPy's flight.parachute_events. Without it a client can only
+    # *derive* trigger times, and only for `trigger='apogee'` - an
+    # altitude-triggered main has no derivable timestamp and silently goes
+    # unreported.
+    parachute_events: Optional[Any] = None
+
     # Core Flight attributes (always present)
 
     # Core Flight attributes (always present)