ENH: Add explicit timeouts to ThrustCurve API requests and update changelog

[Copilot]

Pull request type

• Code changes (bugfix, features)
• Code maintenance (refactoring, formatting, tests)
• ReadMe, Docs and GitHub updates
• Other (please describe):

Checklist

• Tests for the changes have been added (if needed)
• Docs have been reviewed and added / updated
• Lint (black rocketpy/ tests/) has passed locally
• All tests (pytest tests -m slow --runslow) have passed locally
• CHANGELOG.md has been updated (if relevant)

Current behavior

Both the search and download requests.get() calls in Motor._call_thrustcurve_api() had no explicit timeout, allowing indefinite hangs in slow/offline network environments.

New behavior

Both ThrustCurve API calls now use an explicit timeout tuple:

_timeout = (5, 30)  # (connect timeout, read timeout) in seconds

Applied to:

• Search request (/search.json)
• Download request (/download.json)

The method docstring now documents requests.exceptions.Timeout as a possible exception.

Additionally, based on review feedback, CHANGELOG.md was updated under [Unreleased] → Fixed to include this PR change.

Breaking change

• Yes
• No

Additional information

Targeted validation was run for the affected area:

• python -m pytest tests/unit/motors/test_genericmotor.py -q → 9 passed

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[MateusStano]

@copilot add pr to changelog

[Copilot]

@copilot add pr to changelog

Done in 3aaa71c — added this change to CHANGELOG.md under Unreleased → Fixed. No UI changes (changelog-only update).

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 81.06%. Comparing base (1618fb0) to head (3aaa71c).

Additional details and impacted files

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