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After parsing the data between 7000 and 8000 meters and eliminating outliers, this is a scatter plot of velocity vs. altitude. Velocity was determined using backwards differentiation on a centered-moving average of 201 data points of height and time.
A normal probability plot of the velocities shows that the distribution of mission package velocity under drogue at this altitude range was approximately gaussian (similar results were shown, but not included here, for velocity squared, which is proportional to drag):
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