International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems

This best-selling reference guide contains updated and expanded material on launch programs in China, Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the United States.

Packed with illustrations and figures, the second edition of the guide is a quick and easy data retrieval source for policymakers, planners, engineers, and students.

Eight standard sections describe each of the launch systems in detail, including: chronological illustrations of production status, vehicle descriptions and their technical differences, a brief text history of the launch system and the launch record, price data, performance curves for a variety of orbits, launch site, launch facilities, launch processing and flight sequence, payload accommodations, and more.