5 an Tre prosraa co resolve che discrepancies is meaciy complete. Me aes curacs ami degree of confizerce whica can be attacaed to tne Final esti cates ef tae Teas and Orange aieLe Crajectories is comsiceradiv Detter Thea eas Anticipated at ene tise of the nich-aitituce sats. Resubts of tais trajccton eanuissis prograa will de rearted separatel,�� ami will cherefere cal, bc sua- suriced mere. Final crajector estisates are incivted at che end of Cais seclicn. 5.3.+ Tine of Flight and Nasizmnm Altitude . One extretely significaar and basic Fact was brought out bs che trajecterm analysis chich greatly improves contidence in the alticude-versus-tine histery of the rockets. studies. This is the most critical trajectory paraaeter for attenuaticn Specifically, it was outed thac the cutal cise of fliyhe of a vehicle was related to the aaxims altitude reached by thse vehicle. The relationship was of che furah-a Bt where ho is smaxicam altituce, A amd B are constunts, ani ct is total cise of Flighe. was required to evaluate h. Thus, once A and 3 were deterained, only ¢ Fortunately, the recorded Hi-Lo attenciion data were in the fura of received signal strength versus tine and, consequently, total cine of Elight could be determined from the signal cutofi. tance of this relationship cannot be overe=xphasized. The isper- Fur exacple, te. vehicles will Nave nearly identical cocal tines of flight even though one vehicte is launched vertically bur attains only a relacivels low alcitude because of pour rocket swtor performance, while the second vehicle is launched ever a low, Flat trajectory to the sase soximo altitude with norsal rocket ater. ‘ performance. Another way to peesent this relationship is to state that vertical motion is independent of horizontal aocion. Although cais statasent is valid fur Eligne in a vacuus, that it aisht also be etrve in the presence of sn atrophece is far froa obvious. To the contrary, it can be shown thar, with the action of drag as a facter, horicontal aml vertical accion, are actually interdepem dence. [f a coasting purtion of the trajectur: is considered, during which drag is significance, 9 s t ates hy dv, the equation for che vertical oavciun is: ¥ & (-