Launch vehicles include ballistic missiles used to carry warhead and launch vehicles are used to transport an orbiter into an orbit.
This book presents and illustrates the foundations of ballistic missiles and launch vehicles conceptual design. The concept of Concurrent Engineering, determination of main design parameters, and overall configuration of schemes, as well as multistage rockets design are the principal contents of the book.
This is a text book and suitable for both postgraduate and

Chapter One Introduction
1.1 System Engineering
1.2 CE—Concurrent Engineering
1.3 Conceptual Design
Chapter Two Mission Analysis and Design
2.1 Operational Requirement and Specification of Ballistic Missiles
2.2 Economic Requirements of Production
2.3 Usage/Operation Requirements
2.4 Design Requirements of Launch Vehicles
Chapter Three Analysis and Selection of Overall Schemes
3.1 Propulsion System
3.2 Guidance System
3.3 Structural System
Part ⅠSingle Stage Rocket Design
Chapter Four Trajectories
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Forces and Moments Applied on a Rocket During Flight
4.3 Motion Equations of Powered Flight Phase
4.4 Motion Equations of Unpowered Flight Phase
Chapter Five Determination of Main Design Parameters
5.1 Main Design Parameters
5.2 Trajectory Analysis
5.3 Weight （Mass） Analysis
5.4 Selection of Main Design Parameters for Liquid Rockets
5.5 Selection of Main Design Parameters of Solid Rockets
Chapter Six Configuration and Structural Design
6.1 Selection of Rocket Diameter
6.2 Shape Design of Forebody（Nose/Head）
6.3 Length Determination of Midsection（Tank）
6.4 Aftersection and Instrument Section
6.5 Structural Design Consideration
6.6 Roughly Structural Layout and Structural Analysis
6.7 Materials
6.8 Types of Construction
Chapter Seven Checking Computations
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Mass, Center of Mass and Rotational Inertia （Moment of Inertia）
7.3 Flight Performance
7.4 Aerodynamic Surfaces and Control Angles
Part ⅡMultistage Rocket Design
Chapter Eight Foreword of Multistage Rocket
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Composition and Description
8.3 The Burnout Velocity of a Multistage Rocket
Chapter Nine Conceptual Design of Multistage Rockets
9.1 Design Mission Analysis and Technique Approach
9.2 The Number of Stages
9.3 Selection of Propellants
9.4 Mass Analysis of Multistage Rockets
9.5 Mass Distribution
9.6 The Steps of Main Design Parameter Selection
9.7 Using Existing（Single stage）Rockets to Compose a Multistage Rocket
9.8 Separationconnection Device Design
9.9 Separating Parameters Calculation