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 senior undergraduate students of flight vehicle design. Practising engineers may also find it useful if they are comparatively new

Chapter One Introduction1
1.1 System Engineering1
1.2 CE--Concurrent Engineering3
1.3 Conceptual Design5

Chapter Two Mission Analysis and Design9
2.1 Operational Requirement and Specification of Ballistic Missiles9
2.2 Economic Requirements of Production15
2.3 Usage/Operation Requirements15
2.4 Design Requirements of Launch Vehicles19

Chapter Three Analysis and Selection of Overall Schemes22
3.1 Propulsion System22
3.2 Guidance System27
3.3 Structural System32

Part ⅠSingle Stage Rocket Design

Chapter Four Trajectories
4.1 Introduction 45
4.2 The Forces and Moments Applied on a Rocket During Flight 46
4.3 Motion Equations of Powered Flight Phase 58
4.4 Motion Equations of Unpowered Flight Phase 62

Chapter Five Determination of Main Design Parameters
5.1 Main Design Parameters 77
5.2 Trajectory Analysis 81
5.3 Weight (Mass) Analysis 94
5.4 Selection of Main Design Parameters for Liquid Rockets 99
5.5 Selection of Main Design Parameters of Solid Rockets 111

Chapter Six Configuration and Structural Design
6.1 Selection of Rocket Diameter 123
6.2 Shape Design of Forebody(Nose/Head) 126
6.3 Length Determination of Midsection(Tank) 127
6.4 Aftersection and Instrument Section 128
6.5 Structural Design Consideration 130
6.6 Roughly Structural Layout and Structural Analysis 137
6.7 Materials 139
6.8 Types of Construction 140

Chapter Seven Checking Computations
7.1 Introduction143
7.2 Mass, Center of Mass and Rotational Inertia (Moment of Inertia) 144
7.3 Flight Performance 156
7.4 Aerodynamic Surfaces and Control Angles 158


Part Ⅱ Multistage Rocket Design

Chapter Eight Foreword of Multistage Rocket
8.1 Introduction 163
8.2 Composition and Description 163
8.3 The Burnout Velocity of a Multistage Rocket 165

Chapter Nine Conceptual Design of Multistage Rockets
9.1 Design Mission Analysis and Technique Approach 171
9.2 The Number of Stages 171
9.3 Selection of Propellants 172
9.4 Mass Analysis of Multistage Rockets 173
9.5 Mass Distribution 176
9.6 The Steps of Main Design Parameter Selection 183
9.7 Using Existing(Single stage)Rockets to Compose a Multistage Rocket 186
9.8 Separationconnection Device Design 187
9.9 Separating Parameters Calculation 189