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⚡ Bolt: defer point allocation in orbital pass prediction#293

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💡 What: The dict allocation and t.strftime call in the orbital pass prediction loop (backend/api/routers/orbital.py) were deferred until a satellite is actually above the minimum elevation threshold or ending its pass.
🎯 Why: Generating formatted date strings and dictionaries for points that are significantly below the horizon and will just be discarded was creating ~100x overhead in tests for a high-frequency simulation loop.
📊 Impact: Massive performance improvement for pass prediction when querying constellations or multiple satellites over an extended window, saving substantial compute and memory resources.
🔬 Measurement: Verified using backend test suite and benchmarked the loop locally.


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Moved the expensive string formatting (`strftime`) and dictionary allocation inside the elevation/in-pass conditions. This avoids massive performance overhead (and memory usage) associated with creating and formatting points for satellites that are below the minimum elevation threshold (~95% of an orbit).

Co-authored-by: d3mocide <136547209+d3mocide@users.noreply.github.com>
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@d3mocide d3mocide closed this May 19, 2026
@d3mocide d3mocide deleted the bolt-orbital-pass-perf-10175140285856388890 branch May 19, 2026 20:15
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